BTG: February 2025 Discussion Thread

[Maxim]

Loved reading this! 

Girl, I agree. 

[Contessa Donatella]

I keep forgetting to post about my girl, Cady. For 2 years now I have touted her being the first person to win 3 Daytime Emmys, for 3 different roles, on 3 different shows, on 3 different venues (2 networks & 1 streamer) and they all were recasts! Now, Patricia is an original character! AMC, Dixie, Disney/ABC; ATWT, Rosanna, CBS; DAYS, Jennifer Rose, Peacock.

Also I most fervently hope it's not a fake-out. It was just a dream! No, please no. 

Edited March 2 by Contessa Donatella

[janea4old]

Cady's character is "Pamela".

[Contessa Donatella]

Thanks, I DO NOT have all these character names down yet!!!

[Adamski]

I'm absolutely loving this show, can't get over how good it is! What a treat. Outside of the core four, my favourites are Bill, Vanessa, Leslie and Andre.

Someone mentioned up thread that Ashley's mother Jan cleans some of the houses in Fairmont, is that right? I was trying to work out where she works during the diner scene with her, Leslie and Mona. Jan mentioned that Vanessa had told her something, so I was trying to work out how they were connected. 

Also, the show's opening exterior scene where Nicole is driving up to the country club - does anybody know where that was filmed, please? There was a whole house, a lake and everything, it can't be at Assembly Studios, surely?

 

[Aback]

Thank you for your support, I love your contribution to this board

To flesh out my proposal: they should edit the 5 weekly episodes into a 1 hour episode (60 minutes) per week. The amount of episodes that soaps deliver is staggering - if you package those more efficiently it’s much easier for new fans to binge the episodes and dive into the story. 

[Contessa Donatella]

I love the layering in the characters, as has been discussed. I also love the way they're using split screen. 

A question: why did Hayley thank Vanessa for her "discretion"?

Another question: early on Vernon in conversation with some guy who wanted "more" who was that?

Yet another question: Naomi & Jacob did I understand correctly that they had sex a second time that morning? They talked about how he didn't have the extra time now that he's a detective & no longer a beat cop but THEN didn't they go again, anyway?

The first time, in those grey sheets it was so attractive, the way the sheets were draped & the revealed body parts. The direction on this show is top notch!

Did no one else notice that part of the time the gates have the crests on them & the rest of the time, no crests are there!!!

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with crests S1E1 @ 10:00 

 

[janea4old]

Vanessa served as real estate agent for her client Hayley, and, as a professional, she kept the confidence of her clients, and didn't tell anyone (not even the Duprees) that Hayley and Bill were buying a home in Fairmont Crest.

Vanessa didn't tell anyone until after the deal was closed and Hayley had the keys.  And then we saw the scene afterwards where Vanessa went to the club and told the Duprees who bought the house.

Edited March 2 by janea4old

[Contessa Donatella]

Thanks for the reply. I was aware of all of that but to me it was just Vanessa doing her job. Not something to thank her for. I was jumping to a conclusion that it was some more dark kind of secret. Overactive imagination!!!

 

[janea4old]

Well I just *assumed* that Hayley didn't want anyone to find out and that's why she thanked Vanessa, but Vanessa would have kept quiet regardless because she's professional.
But who knows. Maybe there's more to it? 

[Contessa Donatella]

This show has me so excited, I may be jumping at shadows!!! Or worse seeing something nefarious which is instead just usual good manners??

[janea4old]

They did! They had that conversation after getting dressed, then undressed and had sex a second time.  Then they got dressed again and she gave him some fuzzy pink handcuffs, which which she wants him to arrest her later tonight.  He then stood behind her and wrapped himself around her but that scene ended ... and Naomi was next shown at the club with family, so presumably they resisted doing it a third time.

[Contessa Donatella]

Thanks again for the reply. That's what I thought. I love the things Michele Val Jean is exploring in dialogue. We actually had conversations about the use of violence to solve problems on Tuesday after Dani punched Hayley at the end of Monday. 

And, here they talked about why NOT to have sex & then did anyway.

It's a level of complication that we don't usually get & what fun!!!

And, I am all in for them both having sex & talking about it!!

[janea4old]

Vernon's grandson (Nicole's son) Martin the congressman.  
Interestingly Martin and his husband Brad "Smitty" both seem to be wanting more.
They're married with two teen children they've mentioned but we haven't seen yet.
They seem happy but ... Smitty is a bored househusband who apparently wants his journalism career back? and Martin loves being a congressman but says he wants something more, but he's not sure what it is that he wants.

[Contessa Donatella]

Thanks again for the reply. Later on I recognized Martin but not at first.