Episode 003 PreVIEWS
"My fears behind me, gone are the shadows and doubts
That was then, this is my now."
Hello "All Or Nothing" readers and welcome back to the Behind-the-Scenes blog of the online drama series that recently returned from a three-plus year hiatus. With two episodes under the "return" belt...AON is gearing up for one of the best arcs ever written, I truly believe that. Characters have matured, departed and some have returned. One of those characters who is returning to the canvas in Episode 003 is the notorious vixen Brandi Brashears Pierce.
In my opinion, Brandi was always one of those complicated characters who always bordered the line of heroine and vixen. In one case she was the orphaned child who came to live with Natasha Garrett Bradshaw's family when she was young, but the adult Brandi was very, very naughty. Did I mention that she had a bad habit of sleeping with married men? Including her one-time husband / baby daddy fashion icon Nicholas Pierce and former best-friend's very own husband Andrew Bradshaw (a plot point that will not be forgotten during this regime.)
But, Brandi's biggest crime was literally a crime against everything she once held dear...she caused the accident that claimed the life of Jered Bradshaw in 2004. His death rocked the River's Edge community...the Bradshaw and Pierce family...it caused Jered's sister April to split into a multiple personality...a forever destasted mother...and a wife who has not be capable of learning to love again.
Through the last five years though, it has been Jered's twin sister Jodi who has seemed to experience the most pain. A failed marriage, a crushing social life and the guilt that she carries around with her. Jodi's been living through this for the last five years and because she's authoring a novel, "Angels Among the Water" she is going through it for a second time. It's because of the in-progress novel that leads Jodi to the South Texas State Penitentiary for Women near Huntsville. There's an extreme guilt that Jodi has been carrying with her and those demons are clearly coming out to haunt her...she's there for one reason and one reason only - readers cannot miss Episode 004 as the episode ventures back to the 2005 when Brandi was on trial for manslaughter charges. Obviously we know what the end result was but how she got there is the story. Jodi's gunning for answers and she'll get them, not right away, because where is the fun the it that. As the writer, my suggestion is not to miss an episode and don't take your eyes off Jodi for a minute!
In my opinion, Brandi was always one of those complicated characters who always bordered the line of heroine and vixen. In one case she was the orphaned child who came to live with Natasha Garrett Bradshaw's family when she was young, but the adult Brandi was very, very naughty. Did I mention that she had a bad habit of sleeping with married men? Including her one-time husband / baby daddy fashion icon Nicholas Pierce and former best-friend's very own husband Andrew Bradshaw (a plot point that will not be forgotten during this regime.)But, Brandi's biggest crime was literally a crime against everything she once held dear...she caused the accident that claimed the life of Jered Bradshaw in 2004. His death rocked the River's Edge community...the Bradshaw and Pierce family...it caused Jered's sister April to split into a multiple personality...a forever destasted mother...and a wife who has not be capable of learning to love again.
Through the last five years though, it has been Jered's twin sister Jodi who has seemed to experience the most pain. A failed marriage, a crushing social life and the guilt that she carries around with her. Jodi's been living through this for the last five years and because she's authoring a novel, "Angels Among the Water" she is going through it for a second time. It's because of the in-progress novel that leads Jodi to the South Texas State Penitentiary for Women near Huntsville. There's an extreme guilt that Jodi has been carrying with her and those demons are clearly coming out to haunt her...she's there for one reason and one reason only - readers cannot miss Episode 004 as the episode ventures back to the 2005 when Brandi was on trial for manslaughter charges. Obviously we know what the end result was but how she got there is the story. Jodi's gunning for answers and she'll get them, not right away, because where is the fun the it that. As the writer, my suggestion is not to miss an episode and don't take your eyes off Jodi for a minute! 