BetterForgotten

Count me in on the group that can’t stand Naomi or the actress. What a self-righteous and hypocritical bore. I do think they need to explore Naomi and Haley’s relationship more though. Naomi brought Haley into the fold but they never interact or share any meaningful scenes in passing. There needs to be some type of reckoning between the two - maybe they can get trapped in a room or something before Naomi is killed off. 🙂

MVJ and Guza seem to be lifting a lot from Carly’s early scenes with Bobbie on GH for Eva with Ted. That whole interval battle of wanting to ruin someone’s life, but also strangely beginning to like them. Fantasizing about being a part of that person’s life and feeling guilt about the kindness said person is giving them.

GH wouldn’t resist trying to re-pair him with Mansi again and suddenly have Kristina start craving some good ole d!ck.

If he was willing to go to ATL, I would have taken him as a Derek recast on BTG as well. Assuming they’ll be better writing and more development for that character.

Oh god, DAYS always looks cheap as hell. Are they going to start shooting the show out of a cardboard box next? The Peacock-only model always seemed like an experiment to me that needed to be financially validated in the long term. So, I guess, we’ll see how that manifests itself…

Newly created role? Josh Griffith doesn’t know how to create new characters with any longevity.

Just gonna leave this right here:

She’s like an old Hollywood star. She brings that type of aura to the show. If daytime wasn’t so racist, she would have been a big star during the golden age of soaps with the right character.

Chelsea looking like Big Bird

Just strolling in casually like nothing happened yesterday:

They just drain the energy out of the show whenever they’re on. It’s a combination of the characters being so damn generic, actors lacking charisma (Jen Jacob), and just being plain wooden as hell (Ben Gavin).

I feel like there’s a lot more to this Ted/Dana relationship than we know and that will unfold.

I feel like there’s an intention to write and produce this show with a streaming/binging audience in mind first.

They clearly have something planned out for Dana’s revenge. I want to see how they’re going to let this unfold as Ted already knows of her reappearance.

I wonder if it was purely sexual vs. emotional. Like he was bored by his sex life in his marriage at one point and sought sexual fulfillment elsewhere, lol. When he was done, he just thought paying Dana off for her silence would be the end of it.

I don’t hate Haley at all - and she’s probably as much Bill‘s victim as Dani is. He’s significantly older than her and the power dynamics between them were never equal. He knew she came from a broken family and likely preyed on all these insecurities to sleep with her. It’s also painfully obvious that Bill wanted a younger trophy wife more than anything else.

Even Dana/Leslie/Sherry is less delusional than Dani.

So Paramount higher-ups forced them, lol. BET, like its sister MTV, has such a trash schedule with the same things airing over and over again. You’d think they’d be more open to something that’s already in the Paramount family. Maybe if the 10 episodes exceed expectations, they’ll air it regularly. Also, BET did air the ET specials during BTG’s premiere week as well.

I feel like most people I’ve encountered (who aren’t necessarily soap diehards like many here) first sampled Generations or were aware of it through the BET rebroadcast in the 90’s. Myself included - but that was during the heyday of cable television, which has a much more limited audience now. But still, this is a great redistribution platform - and BET is still a Paramount subsidiary, so makes sense that they would create synergy and leverage it for BTG. They’ve also been very strategic and smart with the press rollout of this show. Giving priority to black-owned or black-centric media properties with exclusives and such.

Yes, it's also reflected on the BET schedule on their website. This is great exposure for the show, even though not many people are watching cable television these days. https://www.bet.com/tv-schedule

Local talent shines in “Beyond the Gates”

B&B has OG Sheila bartending at the budget Olive Garden: