I get pushback on how I talk about Eva, so let's be clear. I'm not a fan page. I want to unpack EVERYTHING about a character. People dug their heels in on Team Kat and Team Eva and missed the NUANCE that could help them in real life. #BeyondTheGates #BTG #FairmontCrest #EricaVainTV

It's only September. In JULY I was cursing every Hawthorne not named Jacob. Now? Even baldy, I kind of love you a little bit. Even though you get on my NERVES. #BeyondTheGates #BTG #FairmontCrest #EricaVainTV

The Dupree's seem a LOT less powerful than people make them out to be. Leslie walks all through their homes. And then the Hawthornes gave us a few minutes at that police station and showed what ORGANIC family love looks like. #BeyondTheGates #BTG #FairmontCrest #EricaVainTV

Bill extorted her family into coming to his wedding. When people bring up Dani and that wedding, I get QUIET. Because I don't have a problem with it. I know it's not the politically correct thing to say. But it gets to a POINT. #BeyondTheGates #FairmontCrest #EricaVainTV

Bill praising Hayley doesn't mean Bill BELIEVES in Hayley. Not every narration in a story is reliable. Every compliment doesn't stand as a compliment. #BeyondTheGates #EricaVainTV

Back in 2020 a Clubhouse room told me I was transphobic because, as a straight Black woman, I don't date trans men. I support trans people's autonomy, protection and full lives. Six years later I stand in the same place. #EricaPleasePodcast #EricaVainTV #Podcast #Commentary

If this was TED, I'd say stay away, he's no good for you. Ted barely has one apology in him. But Bill is actively trying to atone and show up as a better man. THAT'S what makes this so complicated. #BeyondTheGates #BTG #FairmontCrest #EricaVainTV

The propaganda already has Kat chasing Isaiah. Mind you, EVERY time that man sees Kat he makes a BEELINE straight for her. Say it again for the people in the back. #BeyondTheGates #FairmontCrest #EricaVainTV

We have PERFECTED the art of consumption — and not just products. We consume PEOPLE, or the idea of them, so much that we don't see each other's humanity anymore. That's the thesis of this whole show. #EricaPleasePodcast #EricaVainTV

Wait, you just said he wants her back. So if Dani WASN'T married, would Bill be pursuing her? Toi's answer: I can't have you, but I don't want nobody else to have you. That's EGO. #BeyondTheGates #EricaVainTV

Stop comparing Dani to Leslie. There's something REAL about being bonded to the person you had children with, even when the kids are grown. I get that for both of them... Dani isn't using the girls. Leslie is totally using Eva. #BeyondTheGates #EricaVainTV

I'm rooting for Dani FIRST. But I do want Bill to see this redemption through. Give me the "I was a raggedy Negro and now I'm not" arc. I LOVE a converted raggedy Negro story. #BeyondTheGates #EricaVainTV

I want to show up in my FULL Blackness — when I'm excellent AND when I'm messed up — and still be loved. Excellence isn't a permanent state. It's a peak. Everything in between is still valid, still worthy, still lovable. #EricaPleasePodcast #EricaVainTV #BlackWomen #Blackness

Heather is not after the whole town. If you're worried about EVERYBODY, you're not that big of a boss. She wants three things, and everybody else is a PAWN. #BeyondTheGates #BTG #FairmontCrest #EricaVainTV

Y'all keep saying Bill already had this Dani. He NEVER had this version of her. This version only unlocked when she was being loved appropriately. That's what's seducing him, and that's why he won't let go. #BeyondTheGates #EricaVainTV

Here's Eva's problem. She doesn't know what she WANTS. She's not running toward anything, so every shiny thing Kat gets becomes a distraction. #BeyondTheGates #FairmontCrest #EricaVainTV

Kat can see Eva because Kat can see HERSELF. Eva can't see Kat because she doesn't know who she is. Until she figures that out, Kat is always going to be the BOULDER in her way. #BeyondTheGates #FairmontCrest #EricaVainTV

People are criticizing folks for mourning Dolly Parton and Hayden Panettiere. But the media you attach to in your formative years helps build who you become. Being moved by that loss isn't weird. #EricaPleasePodcast #EricaVainTV #Podcast #Commentary

That man saw Kat was busy livestreaming, opened the livestream on his PHONE, and was already standing in her face. How am I supposed to stop calling him her future husband?? What are they putting in them HAWTHORNES? #BeyondTheGates #EricaVainTV

Y'all want a family feud. I don't. And I don't want them to do everything the white soaps did but make it Black. Give me NUANCE specific to the Black experience, not Hatfields and McCoys. #BeyondTheGates #FairmontCrest #EricaVainTV