Beyond The Gates Drops Juicy Official Trailer!
Anticipation continues to build for Beyond The Gates, the new soap opera created by Daytime Emmy-winning scribe Michele Val Jean that is set to make its debut on CBS on February 24. Now, the network has dropped the official trailer for the show, which introduces viewers to the juicy world of Fairmont Crest, a fictional gated community located outside of Washington, D.C. and one of the most affluent Black communities in the country.
Into Beyond The Gates
As a luxurious car pulls up to the show’s titular gates, a posh tablescape is set at a table reserved for the Duprees, the family at the core of the show’s unfolding drama. When she arrives at her dining destination, Anita Dupree (Tamara Tunie) is greeted warmly and she and daughter Nicole (Daphnee Duplaix) are escorted to their table at the Fairmont Crest Country Club.
Once seated, Anita asks Nicole if she’s spoken to Dani (Karla Mosley) — Anita’s other daughter and Nicole’s sister. “Dani was blindsided by Bill and Hayley’s affair,” Nicole sighs, as Dani’s former husband, Bill Hamilton (Timon Durrett), and Hayley Lawson (Marquita Goings) are shown in a passionate moment in his office, then in bed. Bill, a defense attorney, is now engaged to Hayley, a paralegal at his firm. Cut to Dani, flying into a rage in her kitchen.
The next clip shows Anita holding court over her family, telling them how proud she is “of each and every one of you.” Dupree patriarch Vernon Dupree (Clifton Davis) is then shown in conversation with his grandson, Martin (Brandon Claybon), son of Nicole and Ted (Maurice Johnson). “Does my legacy ever feel like a burden?” wonders Vernon. “It’s a lot to live up to,” Martin acknowledges.
Anita then takes a tough-love approach with Dani as she wallows in self-pity and her sorrow over the end of her marriage. “You need to remember who you are,” she admonishes Dani, whose eyes are shining with tears. “A Dupree woman! Find your inner strength.” Dani seems to accept the challenge as she gets ready to don a fabulous outfit and begins doing her makeup. “I’ll be healthy again,” she vows defiantly in another clip, where she’s seen with her sister and mother. “As soon as I make a couple of cheaters pay for blowing up my life.”
Nicole is dealing with more than her vengeful sister — she’s a doctor, and at the hospital, she’s at the bedside of a young woman who was run off the road. “It sounds like someone deliberately tried to hurt you,” Nicole laments. Indeed, it looks to be a case of attempted murder! Tending to the patient is Ashley Morgan (Jen Jacob), a single mom who works as a nurse at Garland Memorial Hospital. She is the best friend of Naomi (Arielle Prepetit), Bill and Dani’s daughter, and is in love with firefighter Derek Baldwin (Ben Gavin).
Nicole also faces off with Hayley, the woman who slept with her brother-in-law. “I fell in love with an inconvenient man,” Hayley tells her. “Now you have to deal with the inconvenient consequences,” Nicole shoots back. Said consequences include Dani storming into Bill’s office, golf club in hand, and after using it to send the items on the top of his desk flying across the room, she holds it menacingly as she stares down her former husband. In another clip, Dani is shown smacking Hayley across the face!
The action also includes a high-fashion photo shoot, and the voice of Chelsea Hamilton (RhonniRose Mantilla), Bill and Dani’s younger daughter, can be heard. “Once we launch my purse line, we’ll be on our way to giving the Kardashians a run for their money,” she professes. Bill is equally enterprising — he shows up at the home of his former in-laws to hint to Vernon that he intends to collect on a favor.
In an intense moment, Vernon declares, “We’ve got a problem,” and Anita responds, “Protecting the family is our priority.” “Agreed,” nods Vernon, as images — including a gun being pointed at an unknown someone! — flash across the screen, before Dani too-sweetly tells Hayley, “See you around the neighborhood.”
Check out the full trailer here:
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