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It looks like the typical soap dynamic of the wife being more sympathetic and fragile while the mistress is more bold and unrepentant has somewhat been flipped. Brooke would sometimes fall into feeling sorry for herself and excusing her behavior because of "destiny" and I can see vibes of Hayley going in that direction. With Dani pushing Chelsea's career maybe a little too hard it's probable that she will lean more towards Bill if he is the parent putting less pressure on her.

Looked a the trailer again and noticed that Bill's daughter is against him too. The Duprees are set to be a strong united front. In the punching scene I also noticed that Anita is just standing there as Dani punches Hayley and doesn't seem to be trying to intervene.

My guess is the conflict will be over Dani being reckless and too vengeful. Clearly she's going to be off the rails at the start.

I mentioned Anna Maria Horsford ages ago. If not her then I think Janet Hubert would work. Or maybe a real wild card like Bern Nadette Stanis. Someone who is known by audiences from another show is ideal.

It's not a huge indicator but when you type in Beyond The Gates in the Facebook search bar it has "hot right now" under it so I think the trailer is working.

"And now you have to deal with the inconvenient consequences" is such a good clap back line. That's the kind of writing that you need to have a good soap opera. It will be interesting to see if Hayley is going to be a fragile character up against a powerful family or if she's just passive aggressive with her "woe as me" attitude sort of like Lindsay Rappaport.

Checked out a few episodes this week out of boredom. Colleen Zenk is just amazing and owned the scenes she did. The writers gave her lots of room to work and she delivered.

Might be reading to much into that post, but it seems to mean that Vernon plays but the rules most of the time but will break them when he has to and Anita breaks them more often and cares less for them period.

Macho Man has been co-opted too. This crowd is so clueless and doesn't listen to anything closely.

On the central coast of California the soap lineup was always half hour soap first, AMC, OLTL, GH. For CBS it was Y&R, B&B, ATWT and GL. The Los Angeles and Santa Barbara markets will follow the New York City lineup.

Melania is too unintelligent to have ever plotted an out with a decent payday. At this point he could leave her penniless in a divorce if he wanted to because Barron is an adult and she can't leverage him anymore.

It has since changed it's name, but there is a white supremacist group that once used the name Vanguard America. Just putting that out there for thought.

Interesting indeed. Seems something of a pattern.

Please let's not entertain these ugly, bitchy Youtube Black men who hate Black women at every turn. That commentary has no relevance to the discussion of the show.

It's a great sign that CBS is heavily promoting even on a specialty channel because it means they are actually invested. They are searching for viewers inclined to tune in and most likely previous soap viewers.

Pretty much everything that immediately replaced canceled soaps has been canceled itself.

As far as openings go I expect this to have something like B&B does with a full title sequence at least once a week and a shorter title card sequence for the rest of the days. There were clearly portions of an opening credit sequence in the promo.

That promo was good. Beyond The Gates is going to be fantastic.

I don't necessarily believe other networks would put on another soap, but if BTG really lands well it could trigger interest. Reclaiming time from affiliates to get ad revenue is probably something networks would like to do of they could.

Most likely she did that herself. No police report and the writing was clearly her own. I think she actually might be actually have some mental health problems. Marjorie is crazy but in an intentional, extremist way but Mace seems to be spiraling.

At this point Nancy Mace is basically a soap opera psycho https://newrepublic.com/post/189258/nancy-mace-attack-transgender-activist-truth She lied and said an advocate for transgender people attacked her, but all he did is shake her hand. At this point she's probably going to throw herself down the stairs next and blame a Democrat (like Annie did to Reva on Guiding Light).

There is room for balance there. Anita might be matriarchal with some and not so much with others. Reading the character descriptions of the daughters it seems like there might be room for her to play favorites and clash with one of them. It might be reading too much into but Nicole was the furthest away from Anita and was holding Vernon's arm whereas Dani was in between them but slightly turned toward Anita.

That is what I thought too. These days the old school matriarch is too stale and antiquated.

It would have been surprising if Morgan had not been at least asked. I imagine there is a chance she is asked to do a guest stint sometime in the future. Would be interesting to see her play a Helena Cassadine/Vivian Alamain/James Stenbeck type that randomly pops up to stir the pot.

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