BTG: May 2025 Discussion Thread

[MontyB]

Sean Freeman looks good in anything. Would not change one thing. Arielle Prepetit looking cute. 

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[Aback]

LMAO this is the funniest hill I'll die on.

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The shoulders and sleeves are too tight. He'd benefit from a larger size. The yellow arrows show where the shoulder cut should actually be placed in my opinion. I don't mind the granpa fashion per se, I just have an OCD with sizes LOL

[Gatecrashers]

Jacob and Naomi ONLY have a bedroom.

[UKBoi]

Oh I forgot about this! I actually don’t understand why they don’t have Jacob and Naomi be neighbours to Ashley in the same building and just redress the same apartment set two different ways. The more I deep it, so many of the set choices just don’t make sense. 

[GLATWT88]

That would have been a great idea. Naomi and Jacob's bedroom and Derek and Ashley's studio should be a one bedroom set that could be redressed. Ashley's apartment could be an open concept kitchen and living room like Dani's. I know times are tough, but a nurse and fireman can afford a one bedroom. Naomi and Jacob's bedroom 

[MontyB]

Dani has a bedroom. She and Andre were in it right before the anniversary party.

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Edited 10 hours ago by MontyB

[Contessa Donatella]

Dani would.

 

[Antoyne]

Their question was does she only have a bedroom lol

[MontyB]

Meh, I'm a bit tipsy after coming from a Mother's Day festivity.

I should have posted a picture of her and Andre in her little great room.

[Contessa Donatella]

Surely that was a joke. Why would anyone seriously ask if Dani had any rooms besides having a bedroom? MOST of the time when we see her, she's in that open, airy, white room with her kitchen far stage left & there's an island & a love seat. 

I have meant to post to say how taken I was with Eva last Thursday. You don't know it but I have  not really gotten into either Eva or Leslie/Sheila/Anna/Dana/Mom in the same ways or degrees most of y'all have. 

With "Many Names" I get that it's quite a challenge to play that evil & that crazy without becoming cartoonish & she hasn't, so there is that. But, I do not see layers or nuance. I also do not fault the actress. If the gray tones are not there on the page, I don't expect to see them ripped out of thin air.

With Eva there were so many questions. Now most have been answered.

[janea4old]

I saw a new BTG promo during Watson tonight (Sunday May 11).   I don't remember what I saw (and I wouldn't say here on the nonspoiler thread anyhow).
I know only that it was different from the "next on BTG" preview at the end of Friday's episode.
If anyone catches the new promo, please post it on the spoiler thread.

Edited 8 hours ago by janea4old

[alwaysAMC]

Haha love a little drunk posting

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[UKBoi]

My question was basically is Dani the only character to have a bedroom? And then the response was Jacob and Naomi ONLY have a bedroom as their set .

[Paul Raven]

For a homeless woman, June sure has nice teeth.

I agree Ted didn't bring the power in the fallout scenes but to can him and leave Tomas, Martin and Derek onscreen?

i'm not looking forward to Martin's secret being revealed and have him flail in the spotlight scenes. Yes, he's got a little better, but...

When someone like Timon delivers with every line reading, you wonder how some other casting decisions were made.

And I need sunglasses every time characters are at Uptown-is that green paint left over from GL's Cedars Hospital makeover?

And for the cliffhanger, instead of the Door dash nonsense, simply have Leslie encounter Vanessa on her way out and push past her to enter. As there is no front door have Leslie barge into the living room, with Vanessa following. 

Then Nicole can tell Vanessa- it's OK she can leave them alone.

[Darn]

Some country club revelation thoughts from a casual watcher no one asked for.

The Great:

Daphnee Duplaix gave the best performance we've seen yet. Nicole's dialogue was also well thought out and felt character specific. TJ Maxx Ted was also pretty good.

Trisha Mann-Grant steals every scene she's in. Often without even trying. Carrying multiple episodes worth of exposition heavy soap dialogue with starts and stops and recapping and drama and humor is no small feat and she nailed.

Vernon telling Lesliana to STFU. 

The Bad:

So much of the dialogue for the rest of the cast was overly written. Martin said "You are a vile human being with a hole in your heart!". Marty, what are we doing? It's SO dramatic and sounds so silly coming from this grown man.

Do Bill and Hayley do anything but talk about the Duprees? And the nerve of her to get so excited to find out Ted is a cheater when she and her husband are too. There should be a hint of shame mixed in with your glee, ma'am.

The Questionable:

Coffee and a rendition of Amazing Grace after finding out Nicole was betrayed by her husband. The Duprees are an odd bunch.

The stinger of one segment had Anita prepared to lambast Lesliana, when we came back someone else was talking. When Anita eventually said something to Wig, it was a lukewarm at best. And then of course she thought singing a song about something that should absolutely not be extended to her son-in-law.

The entire family allowing this deranged woman to speech at them in their own was...nuts. I know she said something about what would the neighbors say but my GOD. Is she just going to be allowed to trespass whenever she feels like it now?

The focus on Leslie and her wig usage as an oddity is...odd. I think Chelsea said something like "and she wears wigs!" (while wearing a buss down middle part). Okay? It's just not that odd for a black woman to change up her hair. It's the different names that's the problem. I know it's meant to be humorous, in a throwback soap kind of way, but it fell flat for me. 

I'm sorry I find the whole family to be WEIRD. It's like they want us to see them as ruthless yet benevolent, open yet furtive, snobbish yet tooth achingly sweet all at the same time. I cannot get a lock on the family dynamics. Everyone is just there. 

I'm gonna cry if this show doesn't start giving us ages (or close to it!) for these characters. Because if Eva is 21-22 then Martin was being given crayons, a soda pop and blinders when he was 15-17 years old. Martin had to have been under 8 for me to buy this story, which would make Eva and Kat late 20s (Martin is at least 35 since he wants to run for president), which I don't think they're meant to be. It's honestly minor but it bothers me.

I've mentioned this to @Vee but I think the optics on opening the show with both sisters discovering their husbands of over 30 years are cheaters should've been considered. I doubt there was any intention behind it, no one's rubbing their hands together as they scheme to say the married black men can't stay loyal but how does it look? Maybe it's just me. Honestly it's probably just me!

Edited 1 hour ago by Darn