Beyond the Gates is a hit

is anyone else seeing Guza's finger prints all over the Dani character?

she pulls out a gun in front of all those wedding guest and the millions who saw it on streaming

not only doesn't the family member who's a cop not arrest her but Mr. Dupree dismisses another cop the next day.

This is like Guza and the mob on GH. "Sonny would never hurt his kids!" "Dani was under a lot of pressure! She never would have shot Bill or his bride!" (Or however they justified it.)

Dani should have been sent to a sanitarium and the family should have said she was suffering from exhaustion. Again, Vernon just dismissed the reporters the next day -- saying they had each frame memorized of the video.

The video. Of Dani. Whipping out a gun. And going off on the groom. Scaring everyone.

I don't get it. Who are we rooting for?

Are Val Jean and company just showing that they can have black folks evade the law like Blake Carrington, who didn't have to serve jail time for killing Ted Dinard?

Oh, wow. Tamara Tunie with white hair is a bit of a shock. I haven't seen her since old L&O SVU episodes.

[quote]Tamara Tunie with white hair is a bit of a shock.

Give it a yank and see what happens.

Slightly less white.

She looks fabulous, r2.

Damn, I'm old. I remember her from As the World Turns in the late 80s when she played Tom Hughes' law partner, Jessica Griffin. My father had retired early and Bold and the Beautiful and ATWT became part of his daily routine (which I picked up when I was home from college in the summer).

R3 I would bet money that is mostly her real hair. She has always had a great head of hair.

R6, pal, you’re not old

Some of us here remember Linda Metcalf

Oy! The nurse at Bay City General!

One grandmother's racist Canasta buddies was horrified that she called Mac & Rachel by their first names.

Douglass and Victoria?

Tamara Tunie reminds me of Karen Huger from RHOP. Huger appeared in the first episode and may have appeared in more episodes before her DUI sentencing.

Maybe Anita Dupree will visit her in the slammer.

Tamara looks terrible with that mop on her head.

I hope it becomes a Daytime Grey's Anatomy.

May it run forever, and may I never watch an episode.

Huzzah!

I just hope Tamara plays long enough to recoup all the cash she was swindled out of.

what cash was she swindled out of?

This show has done better than The Talk, which is not hard to do. It will fizzle out. Right now it is shiny and new. No history with the characters. I don’t see this show lasting in the long run. I’ll take Y&R, B&B, GH and Days anyday over this show where you can’t tell anyone apart.

R14- elaborate, please? fuck it I will just google..

R16 All the federal employees laid off in the DMV area will need some comfort tv. The black and white fraus and some of the men too will be watching this. I said what I said.

I caught the recent episode.. I like the bougie sets, they remind of RHOA homes.

The lighting is improved but the show and the camerawork looks CHEAP- like tacky--- somehow-

The show is raw garbage. How the christ could anyone get "hooked" on this pablum.

There is no accounting for bad taste.

Tamara isn’t the nicest person in the world.

And what an arrogant cunt to send a group email to show up on time and know your lines. Her subtle way of letting everyone know that she’s a cunt.

R19 I agree the camera work looks cheap but to me ALL soaps look like that. I think we were expecting to see Empire cinematography on a daytime soap.

I remember reading here that Tamara Tunie and Michael Swan (who played Duncan "The hounds are howling; Lilith is on the island" McKechnie on As the World Turns couldn't stand each other. They were supposed to be this hot couple.

I'm assuming the money Tunie was swindled out of is referring to was the stage production of "Purpose," which is now on Broadway and written by the playwright who got Sarah Paulson a Tony in "Appropriate." Tunie was in the cast in the Chicago production, invested a bunch of time and money in it, and was not asked to come to reprise the part when it moved to NYC.

Is anyone watching this??? The scripts are God awful and the acting even worse. It's no longer a hit either. Ratings have plummeted.

Good for them for defying both the racial bias that has become even more prevalent these days due to the morons in charge and the notion that soap operas are a dead medium.

The show has big shoes to fill:

R23. That sucks but, hey, more people will see her in one episode of her soap than they would have during the entire run of Purpose and she's probably making great money. Good for her.

So a black lady is telling black folks to not show up to work on CPT!

Hilarious.

R24 The show is slow and boring. The commercials only have a slapping going on.

Like that's what most soap fans want. I've seen almost every episode and am bored to death with it.

I have it playing on my cell while I'm doing stuff on my desktop and hardly notice that it's on.

I could use a new soap to watch with so many getting canned, but this one has nothing new to offer.

no one will write it's not a hit and that it has flaws

Love this show. Today was the best episode thus far concluding with Tamara Tunie singing Amazing Grace.

Oh! Boojie bullshit!

How brave.

R31. Was she wearing a black and silver caftan, per usual?

Did this show get a two year guarantee, because I can’t see how they can justify renewing it. Someone needs to be fired. It was such a stupid idea.

Why should someone be fired? Those of us watching are enjoying it.

R34 If Febreze sales skyrocket, they will renew it and start having Smitty use Pam non stick spray on screen.

Pam can use Pam

Pam is so entertaining that I have no idea who that character is. Is it the ugly nurse's white trash mother with the crimped frosted hair circa 1987?

Who’s the unlucky wardrobe person that has to squeeze Tamara Tunie into those spanks everyday? By the way, the spanks don’t make Tamara look any thinner.

[quote]Who’s the unlucky wardrobe person that has to squeeze Tamara Tunie into those spanks everyday? By the way, the spanks don’t make Tamara look any thinner.

It’s Spanx, not spanks, R39.

That’s nothing compared to what the team at SVU has to deal with.