Yes, 'This Is Us' will officially end with next year's Season 6

"This Is Us is NBC’s second scripted show that will end during the 2021-22 broadcast season and joins former Fox comedy Brooklyn Nine-Nine, which will wrap with an abbreviated and delayed eighth season," Goldberg wrote in her THR report. "The news comes as NBC this season parted ways with Superstore."

This Is Us debuted to record-breaking viewership in September 2016. NBC renewed it for three more seasons in May 2019, a little over a month after the Season 3 finale aired.

 Fogelman commented at the time, again to THR.

"I think we're roughly in the middle of where the television series is going to go. We never set out to make a television series that was going to last 18 seasons, and so we have a very direct plan. I have script pages I have written and I'm writing that really are deep, deep, deep into the future. Like, we have a plan for what we're going to do and I know what the plan is. I'm not allowed to talk about it too much because they freak out. But yeah, I think where you find the characters right now, you're in the middle of their story. If you were in the movie theater, you'd be at the moment where you're about an hour into the movie wondering what's going to happen."

And Milo Ventimiglia, who has starred as television's most beloved patriarch Jack Pearson since the pilot, similarly danced around the inevitable Season 6 conclusion:

This Is Us's fifth season has two more episodes—airing Tuesdays at 9 p.m. EST—and will wrap May 25.

Alongside Ventimiglia, the Pearson family is rounded out by Mandy Moore, Chrissy Metz, Justin Hartley and Sterling K. Brown. Susan Kelechi Watson, Chris Sullivan and Jon Huertas also star.