Broderick

"I'm passing the phone to somebody thinks he can put on a cap and ain't nobody in Fairmont Crest gon' recognize him." 🤣

Yeah, I think there's a therapeutic plasma treatment that's sometimes administered along with chemotherapy. Pretty sure they're heading in that direction.

The show's main script editor (Susan Dansby) is extremely weak. Reading the dialogue aloud as she's editing (or even whispering the lines to herself as she reads them) should alert her that certain lines need to be purged entirely or, at the very least, a drastic rewrite to make them resemble real dialogue. That's been a problem from Day One. The first five episodes of the series were supposedly written by Michele Val Jean, and the dialogue was often atrocious. Obviously no one edited those episodes. And it's set a certain clumsy tone in the dialogue that Susan Dansby has never bothered to rectify even after a year. Do I enjoy the show? Yep. Does the dialogue need work? Yep.

I thought Peaches was still lying up there in Garland Memorial, where they allow folks to stay for months on end, like a boarding house.

I'm guessing the Plasma Storyline is heading in that very direction. I believe the story is designed to facilitate a reconciliation of some sort between Ted & Beautiful Nicole, and some sort of pregnancy issue with Naomi and Jacob. That seems to be what all the foreshadowing points towards. The rest of the "plasma talk" almost seems like intentional debris to muddy the waters of where they're actually heading.

The scene today between Anita & Bill highlights one of the show's major strengths: the central characters are VERY well-defined and are VERY well cast. Hard to believe a scene with that much depth occurred on a show that's barely one-year old.

Yeah, Hayley's house is intentionally the "Graceland" of Fairmont Crest. Most folks who tour Elvis Presley's Graceland walk in and say, "Yikes!!", but others think it's beautiful. Tastes vary.

They're probably BOTH plasma thieves, and we'll soon be rid of them both.

For me, that's the worst bungle (so far) on the entire show. We saw her get a million dollars. Presumably, she might now have received a second quarterly distribution of a million. At max, she's got access to 2 million dollars. With which she's paid cash for a mansion in an elite neighborhood, torn it down, and is building a monstrosity of a new mansion with a mote. And had a new building constructed for the country club. And funded 50% of a free clinic. And paid for Peach's medical stay. And paid for some random man's hospital bill. Even to a child, that's a ridiculous thing to believe.

My feeling is that Naomi is pregnant & doesn't even know it; Jacob will get kidnapped & Naomi will decide to have the baby (in spite of her BRCA gene) because she'll fear that Jacob is dead. He'll turn up alive, but the "operations manager" of the Free Clinic/Stolen Plasma Clinic (Derek) is the person who's dead instead of Jacob. Just a hunch based on who's been dropped to recurring status (Derek), who's unknowingly placed himself in the middle of the plasma racket (Derek), and who "found the baby" at the Mardi Gras party (Naomi) .

Tamara Tunie has been around the attractive Daphnee Duplaix far too much. Anita's impersonation of Nicole was spot-on. lol.

It'll be months (probably) before we get another Friday cliffhanger on a Friday. This was a Wednesday's episode. They've been running two days behind in 2026 because of a couple of preemptions. One was President's Day; the other was a day right after New Year's. I noticed it when the Valentine's episode (which should've aired the Friday before Valentine's) didn't appear on our screens till the following Tuesday. Then there was an episode with several references to Mardi Gras Tuesday. It aired the Thursday following Mardi Gras day, clearly 2 days past its scheduled airdate. Mona launched into a big discussion about the "beginning of Lent" on a Friday, when Lent had begun two days earlier. They intended for that episode to air on Ash Wednesday. They seem to be consistently running two days behind ever since New Year.

Appears to me, Angela Fairley has the potential to be another "win", like Alex Cheeks as Donnell. They both genuinely look as though they could be Doug and Vanessa's kids.

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Glad they finally thought to put a cold cap on Anita. Now that she's whacked off 90% of her hair. Shanice is all right, but if I had to play Twenty Questions with her nosey Auntie, I believe I'd just go back to my "Superficial Occupation" and concentrate on Nicole's attractive ass.

I don't think anyone on Planet Earth would've made Greg Foster stand out. The character was just a dullard from Day One. In hindsight, Bill Bell could've just had two kids in the Foster house (Snapper & Jill) and saved his money by omitting Greg entirely. Greg's "legacy" on the show was basically just marrying Nikki (who doesn't even seem to remember him.)

Yes, Greg was a "suspect" (from the audience's perspective) during the stalker storyline. We were supposed to chalk it up to his bizarre headaches. Even as a kid, I immediately ruled him out. lol.

When you've got a character like Leslie, it's best to use that character sparingly. Or else she becomes a complete annoyance to the viewer. Today's episode exemplified that. Also when you've got a rather spoiled and entitled ingenue (such as Y&R's Lauren Fenmore in the 1980s or BTG's Kat Richardson in 2026), you wanna tone her DOWN from time to time so she doesn't become as tiresome to the audience as she becomes to her enemies on the show. Today's show exemplified that.

They sure are doing a lot of foreshadowing that Naomi is pregnant. At the Mardi Gras party, she found the baby in the king cake and yelled, "I got the baby!! I got the baby!!" An episode recently closed with Naomi and Jacob tearing their clothes off for sex and she said, "It feels different this time." Fade to black. Then yesterday, she told Dull Ashley that the last time she & Jacob made love, she felt like "it would be the last time for a long time." I'm predicting he'll be kidnapped or injured in his undercover work, and she'll discover she's pregnant. (They didn't give her the BRCA Gene for nuthin'.)

There sure was a LOT of DuPraise being heaped on the Duprees today!

I criticize Beyond the Gates daily, so I'll so something positive for a change 😅 I've been familiar with Clifton Davis & Tamara Tunie for most of my life. I'd never even heard of Karla Mosley before the show premiered. I'd never seen Daphnee Duplaix act (though I vividly recall her attractive ass from a photo shoot she did several years ago). The four of them work beautifully together as a family unit, and they've set a certain tone that's trickled down to the less-experienced members of the cast. The Duprees seem like a REAL family to me, and I really like the warmth and humanity they exude. It's rare for a big soap family to "click" so early in a show's run, but they've done it with complete success in my opinion.

My understanding is Banneker is at 2400 6th Street NW, Washington DC (a fictionalized version of Howard University). Can't understand why Vanessa acts like her children are thousands of miles from home when they're at good ole Banneker U. The absence of Bill & Hayley's house is baffling. Not that I miss it. It's ugly. I wish they'd tone Anastasia and Francesca DOWN some. Anastasia works well as a snob, but every line she delivers shouldn't be snobbish and petty; it becomes difficult to comprehend why she has friends who actually sit down and eat a meal with her. In real life, people like her typically wear out their welcome pretty fast.

They've gotten off-schedule from when they intended these shows to air, due to pre-emptions. Thursday's episode was obviously intended to air Tuesday. Vernon and Anita made a big deal out of ordering lunch at the club, and all the "specials" were Fat Tuesday dishes, which Anita shook her head and declined for being too spicy. Then they discussed spending Mardi Gras day in New Orleans next year. For all of us out here in "TV land", Mardi Gras had come & gone two days ago. If they're talking about Lent on Friday's show -- well, that started Wednesday of this week. Looks like they're consistently running two days behind now.

That allegation is on her IMDB page. But take it for what it's worth. The same page also boasts that she's a "former Miss California". I've never found any evidence of that.

I think she "blackballed" herself right out of the entertainment business when she filed that $10 million "wrongful termination suit" against Columbia Pictures. Would you have hired her after that? (I wouldn't have.) That's the kind of conduct that frightens production companies away from hiring someone. As far as her finances go, she had Dr. Rifkin paying her bills for several years, and then she had Jan Weinberg footing her bills till he finally got rid of her. She likely had SOME savings of her own, since her husbands had been paying her way to a great extent. I believe her mother might have left her a small amount of money, too. It's probably about all gone now.