Beyond the Gates
DELICIOUSLY SOAPY SPOILERS—MAY 25-29: Bodies, Betrayals, Bombshells, and a Spencer Coming Home!
Daytime Spoilers: Bill Hamilton slips, Hope Logan picks Forrester, Lexie demands answers, Willow is horrified, and Nick Newman hits the ground.
FIVE SHOWS, FOUR FRESH EPISODES, AND DAYTIME IS NOT HOLDING BACK
TL;DR: Bill Hamilton starts slipping on Beyond the Gates spoilers for the week of May 25, Hope Logan picks Forrester while Wyatt Spencer walks back into Los Angeles on Bold and the Beautiful, Lexie Carver demands answers from EJ DiMera on Days of Our Lives, Willow Tait gets horrified on General Hospital, and Nick Newman’s life hangs in the balance on Young and the Restless. Memorial Day brings encore episodes — fresh chaos returns Tuesday.
Daytime Is Bringing the Heat This Week
Memorial Day kicks off the week with encore episodes on most soaps, but the second Tuesday hits, every single show comes back swinging. A Fairmont Crest fixer starts losing his edge. A Spencer son walks back into Los Angeles after years away. A long-lost Salem matriarch demands answers from her ex-husband’s new wife. A Port Charles wife realizes her husband is building a case against her. And a Genoa City Newman hits the ground while his entire family gasps his name.
Five shows, four fresh episodes, and not a single one taking the holiday week off easy. Buckle in.
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Beyond the Gates
Monday, May 25:
- Beyond the Gates is in repeats for the Memorial Day holiday.
Tuesday, May 26:
- Bill Hamilton tells Tomas Navarro to back the hell off Lynette’s case.
- Nicole Dupree Richardson lets Dr. Kial Rollins in on what her imagination has been getting up to lately.
- Joey Armstrong hands Donnell McBride the olive branch he has been holding out for.
- Deanna McBride gets handed an assignment by somebody who has not been heard from in a long time.
- Leslie Thomas is sweating bullets that Joey’s operation is about to splash onto her.
Wednesday, May 27:
- Shanice Johnson tells Ted Richardson exactly where the two of them stand from here on out.
- Naomi Hamilton Hawthorne shows up for Ashley Morgan the way only a best friend knows how.
- Martin Richardson pulls Tyrell Richardson aside for a chat the kid will be thinking about for years.
- Leslie Thomas decides Garland’s press conference is a great place to make a scene.
- Mona Wilson has news for Jan Morgan about her health.
Thursday, May 28:
- Fairmont Crest gathers to say goodbye to a hero.
- Dani Dupree reminds Bill Hamilton exactly what he has conveniently forgotten lately.
- Ted Richardson tries to support Nicole Dupree Richardson and somehow makes everything worse.
- Madison tells Chelsea Hamilton she is not giving up on her family yet.
Friday, May 29:
- Anita Dupree and Vernon Dupree finally light some candles and pour the wine, and Kat Richardson and Martin Richardson walk right in to ruin everything.
- Joey Armstrong asks Bill Hamilton to handle a problem and clocks immediately that Bill is not himself.
- Jacob Hawthorne and Naomi Hamilton Hawthorne sit down for the bare-knuckle conversation about his undercover life that they have been putting off for months.
- Leslie Thomas decides Hayley Lawson is the friend she needs in her corner.
Bold and the Beautiful
Monday, May 25:
- A summer party at Spencer puts Will Spencer and Electra Forrester in the same orbit and the chemistry shifts on a dime.
- Katie Logan is done waiting and presses Hope Logan for a yes or a no on Logan.
Tuesday, May 26:
- Brooke Logan is over the moon now that Hope Logan’s line is officially coming back home to Forrester Creations.
- RJ Forrester gets blindsided by Will Spencer pulling a stunt nobody on the design team saw coming.
Wednesday, May 27:
- Bill Spencer picks up the phone and calls his eldest son Wyatt Spencer (Darin Brooks) back to LA to help him build the Logan dynasty.
- RJ Forrester storms into Ridge Forrester and Steffy Forrester‘s office and demands they show Will Spencer the door.
Thursday, May 28:
- Donna Logan finds herself smack in the middle of her sisters going to war.
- Bill Spencer’s brilliant plan hits a brick wall, almost certainly because Shauna Fulton (Denise Richards) just walked back into Los Angeles.
Friday, May 29:
- Electra Forrester pulls Dylan aside with news that she cannot wait one more second to share.
- Deke Sharpe finally catches the break Los Angeles has been refusing to hand him.
Days of Our Lives
Monday, May 25:
- Philip Kiriakis drops his guard with Brady Black for the first time in a long time.
- Amy Lawrence is gutted by what the divers pull out of the river.
- Jennifer Horton and Jack Deveraux finally sit down to talk about how their kids are really doing.
- JJ Deveraux comes back to Salem.
- Gabi DiMera and Gwen Rizczech compare notes on which DiMera man has wrecked them worse.
- Sarah Horton makes one more attempt to talk Xander Cook off the ledge.
Tuesday, May 26:
- Jennifer Horton extends an olive branch to Cat Greene.
- EJ DiMera loops Johnny DiMera in on what Tony DiMera is cooking up.
- Chanel Dupree‘s biopsy results land.
- Xander Cook and Sarah Horton stop pretending and lay out what they have both been afraid to say.
- Alex Kiriakis and Joy Wesley find a connection neither of them was expecting.
Wednesday, May 27:
- Theo Carver sits with Paulina Price and reminds her she still has family.
- Marlena Evans pulls out the swinging watch on EJ DiMera and starts digging.
- Gabi DiMera unloads everything on Arianna Horton.
- Tate Black tries to get Holly Jonas to do what her conscience already knows is right.
- Amy Lawrence stops mourning and starts plotting payback.
Thursday, May 28:
- Johnny DiMera and Chanel Dupree finally catch a glimmer of light at the end of the medical tunnel.
- Lexie Carver marches up to EJ DiMera and demands the whole truth.
- Abe Carver finally levels with Theo Carver.
- Javi Hernandez is on his way to meet his new boyfriend Gus when Leo Stark gets in his way.
Friday, May 29:
- Salem closes ranks around Marlena Evans to mark the anniversary of losing John Black.
- Belle Black and Brady Black stumble onto something neither of them is ready for.
- Holly Jonas finally lets Sarah Horton see what she has been hiding underneath the attitude.
- Eli Grant wraps his arms around Lani Grant when she needs him most.
- Foster Walters works up the courage to ask Julie Williams out.
General Hospital
Monday, May 25:
- General Hospital is in encore for the Memorial Day holiday.
Tuesday, May 26:
- Lulu Spencer and Dante Falconeri find common ground and shake on it.
- Carly Spencer puts everything she has into bringing Joss home.
- Kristina Davis gets news that has the power to rewrite her entire summer.
- Harrison Chase and Joe Fitzpatrick follow a thread that could blow the Jack and Drew case wide open.
- Jenz Sidwell floats his suspicions to Ava Jerome over a cocktail.
Wednesday, May 27:
- Ric Lansing pays Elizabeth Webber a visit she did not see coming.
- Sonny Corinthos hands somebody he loves a warning they should not ignore.
- Kai Taylor walks up to Trina Robinson with the kind of news that ruins a Wednesday.
- Emma Scorpio-Drake is the soft place Gio Palmieri needs to land.
- Trina Robinson stops by to see Curtis Ashford and Portia Robinson and walks into the middle of their cold war.
Thursday, May 28:
- Willow Tait walks into a room and clocks something that changes everything.
- Trina Robinson breaks down what is really going on with her to Gio Palmieri.
- Michael Corinthos‘s gut is screaming that his wife is hiding something big.
- Portia Robinson finally calls Curtis Ashford on his Isaiah obsession to his face.
- Molly Lansing and Cody Bell get a knock at exactly the wrong moment.
Friday, May 29:
- Valentin Cassadine pulls out all the stops to sweep Carly Spencer off her feet.
- Ethan Lovett takes on a job somebody needs done quietly.
- Molly Lansing dishes out the kind of advice that only a Davis woman could give.
- Charlotte Cassadine finally tells Carly Spencer what she has been holding back.
- Michael Corinthos pulls Brook Lynn Quartermaine aside and warns her she is heading into a storm.
Young and the Restless
Monday, May 25:
- Young and the Restless is airing an encore for the Memorial Day holiday.
Tuesday, May 26:
- Victor Newman finds the angle that finally lets him squeeze Phyllis Summers.
- Billy Abbott sits Adam Newman down and breaks the news that Sally Spectra is pregnant.
- Patty Williams is in trouble and calling for help over Jack Abbott.
Wednesday, May 27:
- Lily Winters sees Cane Ashby for the first time in a way she has been refusing to all summer.
- Abby Newman makes a vow to Devon Hamilton over Dominic.
- Nick Newman hits the ground on the phone as everyone gasps his name.
Thursday, May 28:
- Victor Newman pulls a move nobody thought him capable of to try and save Nick Newman.
- Victoria Newman walks into the Abbott mansion looking for an assist from Jack Abbott.
- Holden Novak and Stephanie get the doctors’ update on Malcolm Winters.
- Nikki Newman cannot shake the dreams that keep waking her up in a cold sweat.
Friday, May 29:
- Victor Newman and Nikki Newman stop pretending and finally make Nick Newman own his problem.
- Phyllis Summers walks Patty Williams down memory lane and reminds her exactly who Jack Abbott is.
- Kyle Abbott hits the Abbott mansion with news about Diane Jenkins that nobody is ready to hear.
Five shows, five days, and not a single soap is taking the holiday week off easy. Which storyline has you the most invested? Sound off below!
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