Beyond the Gates Is The Best Thing To Come To Daytime TV In Forever

Beyond the Gates, is getting many great reviews. Having written about it for over a month now, I like a lot of what they are doing. This is why to add this soap to your watch list.

Beyond the Gates Just Looks Better

If you have been in the trenches since day one or are just getting into Beyond the Gates now, from just a few moments, it’s easy to see that the extensive team behind the soap is committed to being different than what came before. The camera angles and all the outdoor shots of this “leafy, Maryland, suburb” are a treat to the eye and make a vast change from closeups of tired buildings. I'm unsure about the description of a leafy Maryland suburb or why that’s being bandied about. Still, the scenery is lovely, as are the multi-million dollar mansions in the pristine gated community of Fairmont Crest. The use of many and varied shots from outside make you feel you are right there with them and build the set in your mind.

The script writing, for the most part, is well put together. Instead of appearing like a jilted conversation that feels forced or unlikely to be how people talk to each other, the scenes flow with believable dialogue, as if the camera has caught a fly-on-the-wall moment. Gone are the decade-long pauses at the end of a scene where one actor takes a morning tea break to stare at the other actor and the other actor in the scene just stares right back, trading different eyebrow patterns like it’s morse code for “get me out of here.”

Gotta Love A Good Break-up And Breakdown

Right from the very start of Beyond the Gates, they hit the ground running, with hurled coffee mugs smashing against a wall as a distraught Dani Dupree (Karla Mosley) is dealing with the breakdown of her marriage to superstar lawyer Bill Hamilton (Timon Kyle Durett) and thus we see the emergence of the Dupree family as the focal point to the entire show and how from beyond the gates they appear to be the very essence of “Black Royalty” with expensive clothes, tastes, women, houses and now lawsuits LOL. But behind the gates, we see vulnerability, closets packed with more skeletons than a graveyard, and the closing of ranks within the family to protect a scandal that could blow up and change the fate and family of one member forever.

The storylines move along at a different pace, too. It feels like many things are happening at once, and you learn a little more every day. Advancing the storyline is important as it keeps the viewer on the merry-go-round and coming back for more; if it is too stagnant, it’s easy to lose interest, and so far Beyond the Gates has this on lockdown. What am i trying to say here? Give this Soap a try if you havent already, it’s got a lot of good things going for it and if nothing more than an escape from your day and the opportunity to watch the lives of those in Fairmont Crest collide with drama and intrigue and good old fashioned soap opera “slappenings”

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Watch full episodes of Beyond the Gates weekdays on CBS or stream on Paramount Plus.

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