Tonight’s Beyond The Gates episode centers on Grayson taking a bartender job and extends a bar-focused subplot around his new role. The series kept all of its post-crossover audience gains, retaining a 0.19 rating among Women 18-49 and a 0.29 rating among Women 25-54, with 1.786 million viewers tuning in, its third-largest audience of the season and down just 10,000 viewers week-to-week. The episode’s tune-in represents a +316,000 viewer increase versus the same week last year, the soap’s largest year-over-year gain to date, and extends Beyond The Gates’ streak of year-over-year gains to 15 consecutive weeks. In those key demos the show topped General Hospital (0.19 vs. 0.17 in Women 18-49; 0.29 vs. 0.25 in Women 25-54). Social posts about the episode highlighted skepticism about the writing and the bartender plotline with lines such as "Is this all so Grayson ends up a bartender as his 'side hustle'?" and "What's wrong with that bartender?? Oh they are setting it up for Grayson."
