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So now we're officially two hours past the show's conclusion on the East Coast, and yet again, it is STILL trending at #2 on Twitter/X:

 

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I hadn't even thought about Martin in regards to the "politician's son" because we hadn't seen the son yet. Haha. I was thinking, Vernon! Unless the user was referring to Martin's son with Smitty, and I misunderstood.

THEY DID IT! THEY DID IT! This is FANTASTIC!

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Beyond the Gates is #1 on Paramount Plus's "Top Searches" page.

It's beating 1923, Yellowjackets, School Spirits, and Sonic the Hedgehog, lol.

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Thank you for this.  The exposition was a lot, but I know MVJ of all writers can pen beautiful dialogue.  If she's choosing to prioritize certain things for the premiere, I can live with that.  Pilots are rough, even in other genres that are introducing a fraction of this many characters, and unless I'm blanking this still makes for only a handful of pilots episodes of hourlong daytime soaps (along with Texas, the SBs, and Passions).  None of those shows lasted a decade, so I guess you could say there is no successful template.

I care about the characters, the core actors are doing good work, and I want to see what happens next.  That's a success in my book.

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Hello chiming in. Sigh! I do not think that this first episode was quite worth the wait. But I won't give up. I can't give up. Karla Mosley was really overacting and it came off as fake. Did most of the scenes seem really short to anyone, like they were abruptly clipped? Ashley and Derek, I'm sorry, did nothing for me, and I guess Andre shall live up to his playboy status no matter what, flirting with Ashley and trying to get into her scrubs. What happened to Grand Dames finger snap? I didn't see it.

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Yeah, watching on Paramount+ right now and I totally understand why they swapped the opening for the first episode from the one I saw (Soaps.com also posted what I saw originally). This opening makes more sense since only Mike Manning doesn't appear in the first episode while the other characters do.

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20 minutes in on the West Coast...and loving it. Loving the layers I'm seeing. The possibilities in the dynamics. I can see why it was mentioned that Dani would be divisive. Not a complete saint, but still rootable. 

 

And it's the little things that I am really liking. Little things that other soaps do, but BTG is already doing better from the exposition dialogue to little side nuggets.

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