Beyond the Gates: Premiere Date, Time Slot Set by CBS

[Liberty City]

I'm half-way through the first season and it's quite solid.

[DramatistDreamer]

Have you tried going to the Support Desk? If not, that should be your first place to post this comment.

[detroitpiston]

I can wait to see the character career set up. Black folks living behind the gates nowadays could get you a doctor, a preacher, musician, a social media influencer, a straight up scammer etc. They definitely should have a family who live right outside of the gates too trying to infiltrate.

 

[DramatistDreamer]

Also, we don’t need to see religion play out extensively onscreen but I wouldn’t mind seeing family members enter the house after church, dressed in Sunday best getting ready for an elaborately prepared Sunday dinner. Who is invited, who is not, the “the Upstairs/Downstairs aspect with the machinations and conversations going on between the cook and housekeeping staff, could be an interesting view not portrayed in an American daytime soap opera before. It doesn’t need to be a regular thing but maybe an episode around Easter time etc.

[vanguard]

That secondary middle class black family is what I'm hoping for. The one whom Demarco OR Demetrius is part of. Better yet, let's have them both, as brothers.

[Khan]

They're twins.  Demarco is a doctor, and Demetrius is a bouncer.  And Deniece, their kid sister, is following in their dad, Desmond's, footsteps by going to law school.

Edited May 8, 2024 by Khan

[ReddFoxx]

Somebody needs to be doing Onlyfans (or the show equivalent of) to deliberately make their family upset. There has to be that one character that rebels just to do it.

[Liberty City]

And, preferably, not the LGBTQ+ character.

[vanguard]

I like this. Their mom Delilah would make it complete.

[1974mdp]

Not that they'd ever let the show get this complex, but, I've always thought B&B had the potential to explore the Upstairs/Downstairs aspect with Forrester Creations. You'd have all the execs and creatives "upstairs" and all the lower-income, not so glamourous underlings in the basement where Thorne once worked. Of course, there would be the classic character trying to claw their way up. Sigh. But, instead we just get constant conversations about mints, toes, and dialogue that goes in circles and has an amount of depth that even my betta fish could follow the show.

[NothinButAttitude]

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 at how y'all have mapped this soap out for Michelle Val Jean in its entirety. 

[vanguard]

Demarco/Demetrius. Lol.  Seriously, I'm having so much fun envisioning this show.

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[ReddFoxx]

I envisioned it being a straight man.

[Khan]

IKR, lol?

Michele Val Jean: "Don't worry, y'all, I got this!"

Edited May 9, 2024 by Khan

[Sapounopera]

Before we start working on the intro... I want a black Jill Foster type.