'Beyond The Gates' Review: The CBS Series Is The Perfect Kind Of Messy

Karla Cheatham Mosley stars as Dani Dupree, the ultimate diva in "Beyond the Gates." Enter “Beyond the Gates”: the first one-hour daytime drama centering a Black family in decades and the first daytime soap to premiere since 1999’s “Passions.” CBS Studios picked up the show last April under its production partnership with the NAACP. — Erin The History-Making Moment Of This Show Coming To CBS I had never really thought about the fact that networks aren’t really clamoring to make new soap operas until the announcement of “Beyond the Gates,” which is the first new daytime soap opera to debut since “Passions” in 1999. “Beyond the Gates” is also the first soap opera to center a Black family since NBC’s “Generations.” I’m glad to see this series enter the daytime TV lineup simply because I looooove a messy show with low stakes that I can just put on in the background. — Erin I’d like to think “Beyond the Gates” is the kind of soap my grandmother would’ve loved to see if she were still alive.