This Is Us is in rarefied air, thanks to compelling storytelling, heartbreaking performances and tear-jerking twists. But the most underrated ingredient to its incalculable success is something that’s right under everyone’s nose: the score. Composer Siddhartha Khosla, of Goldspot fame, is the man responsible for opening up those tear ducts -- not that the show needed the help.
Khosla has deep ties to This Is Us creator Dan Fogelman, with whom he attended University of Pennsylvania more than two decades ago. After dipping his toe in television scoring with Fogelman’s acerbic alien comedy, The Neighbors, it was almost a no-brainer when his college pal floated him an early script for This Is Us last spring seeking out his thoughts.
“It was thoughtful, beautiful [and] honest. It made you cry,” Khosla recalls in a chat with Et. “It pulled at your heartstrings in a really beautiful way and inspired me to write. That was the...
Khosla has deep ties to This Is Us creator Dan Fogelman, with whom he attended University of Pennsylvania more than two decades ago. After dipping his toe in television scoring with Fogelman’s acerbic alien comedy, The Neighbors, it was almost a no-brainer when his college pal floated him an early script for This Is Us last spring seeking out his thoughts.
“It was thoughtful, beautiful [and] honest. It made you cry,” Khosla recalls in a chat with Et. “It pulled at your heartstrings in a really beautiful way and inspired me to write. That was the...
- 2/6/2017
- Entertainment Tonight
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