Finally a Below Deck that I like is back on. Can’t stand Down Under for whatever reason and SY has been on hiatus.
I’m also thrilled it’s not BDM, because as we know, I cannot stand Sandy Captain Sandy, but I still will watch it. She’s not as creepy as she used to be since Bravo told her to knock it off. She’s not so insufferable now. Barely.
I love Fraser! I like that they keep bringing him back instead of someone random that had exactly one year of yachting experience and thinks they can be a chief stew.
We do something new and have everyone gather together for some cocktails prior to the charter.
So they flew everyone to London to meet Fraser for a drink, before going off to the Caribbean? That seems weird. And expensive.
We have a French chick who refers to herself as a free spirit and has been on French Love Island. In other words, she was hired for Below Deck, not to be a stew and do actual work.
And she’s French, so she doesn’t fuck around. Well, you know what I mean. I’m sure she fucks around but she doesn’t fuck around.
Her only boat experience has been for 22 days. Not sure if that was the end of the charter, or that’s how long she lasted.
Fraser grills her about “lawwwwwndry.” She says she can push a button. Oh she’s so cute if that’s what she thinks the job is when it comes to the dreaded laundry room.
In all honesty, I don’t get how it’s always such a nightmare. Why does the crew need their laundry done every day? They should have at least 3 or 4 uniforms.
I’m hoping for no Amerians because they always have the worst work ethic and they’re so embarrassing. I hate to say that, but it does seem like the trend.
Kyle is back. No not THAT Kyle. Barbie’s Kyle. I totally forgot about that until now. She was a lot.
Another Barbara from Brazil (has an accent not sure if it’s pronounced differently) says she’s gay and the French chick says “gate?”
So the chef, we’re already foreseeing an issue. He seems a little camera shy let’s say, and unsure of himself, let’s say.
“I’ll give it a whirl.” Never a good sign in my opinion.
French chick seems not super bright. And why does she have this little teeny suitcase for six weeks?
I can’t even fathom the amount of crap I would be packing for six weeks.
I like Kerry a lot. Such a refreshing change from Captain Creepo.
Captain Lee got under my skin too, but in a different way.
He always came off so entitled and often abrasive. He’s the only captain that sat up in the bridge on his ass needing to be served his food. The other captains served themselves and even ate in the crew mess. Not Lee. Not ever.
The chef who claims he doesn’t complain or whine since he found Jesus is doing a lot of complaining and whining. Where is Jesus at??
He keeps talking to the camera guys and asking them not to record him doing certain things.
The provisions arrive and he gets extremely overwhelmed having to put everything away, especially with people staring at him.
So officially a crew of zero Americans. So no one should be a lazy entitled brat, in other words.
Not saying there’s not going to be conflicts. Duh. They purposely pick these personalities that will clash, but just not that spoiled American that tries to skate by doing as little as possible, while pretending they’re busting their ass.
I already foresee the deckhand chick that “used to be a bosun for seven months” thinking she knows more than the bosun.
The French girl, yes she seems bratty, and difficult, and possibly expecting pretty privilege, but she’ll at least own being a pain in the ass is my prediction. That Camille chick? Owned nothing and up until the end, insisted she did nothing wrong and it was everyone else’s fault.
The feverish cleaning and organizing is commencing.
That phrasing gives me PTSD. When I was married, after working a 40 hour 9-5 work week, and having no time to myself whatsoever even in the evenings because I was making dinner, cleaning up, and taking care of kids, he would grill me every Saturday morning as to “when the cleaning was going to commence.” Commence. What a fucking douche bag embarrassing piece of shit. Even though he was a cop and had weekdays off, and days completely free, when I was at work and kids were in school, he could have done the cleaning so I could relax for two seconds on a Saturday. But I get it now, he was busy with all of his ho’s. Including the one he’s still with.
He’s living the baller life now in his shit-colored house with a bitch that’s an equally entitled bitchy heartless piece of shit, who told my daughter lies about me to ‘get back at me.’ So mature, I pity her. She has a pretend husband who uses her for money and clout, and pretends like that’s not the case.
Back to this, also a comparison about Lee versus the other captains, you never ever saw him helping with the manual labor, and carrying shit onto the boat. Ever.
But did he stand on the deck like a drill sergeant, and scrutinizing everyone? Yes he sure did. I don’t hate Captain Lee, but some things did bug me.
Also his support of Kate Chastain and her bullying of the third stews. Every. Single. Season.
French chick is already put off by Brazilian chick telling her “come here” and not asking nicely. I would be put off by that. It does not take any extra effort to say, ‘hey can you come here for a sec?’ verses ‘comer here.’
Delivery is important.
I can already see that she likes to boss Solene around. She asks her to help her carry linens to the cabins that seemed like she could have carried on her own, or made two trips since Solene was busy. Those few towels were too much? Production probably told her to do it. I agree with Solene when Barbara told her “everyone is busy” and she pointed out she was doing her assigned tasks with no help. It’s not like she was sitting there like a lazy American.
That seemed weird of Barbara. It seemed like sort of a subtle way of letting her know she was in charge. Which is kind of immature and red flaggy.
I don’t know why ‘rank’ is so important, when at the end of the day they’re maids, servers and housekeepers. Let’s not sugar coat it.
Kerry’s putting his spin on the preference sheet meetings, and meeting with the deckhands and the interior separately.
Not sure what that end game is, seems like it’s wasting time, but whatever. He’s the captain. He’s not really pressed for time like the deckies and stews are.
Oh I see, with change-up, he’s meeting with all of the stews not just the chief stew. That’s a good idea actually. Now I get it.
No wait, that’s wrong too. Kerry meets with all of the deckies, and Fraser handles the meeting for the stews. I think I get it now. This way everyone is involved in the meeting, and should know and understand what the expectations are. Sorry, I’m tired.
So we have a bunch of germaphobes, black lights in tow, and with children, that’s always fun, as guests on charter one.
Ya know these people do get discounts be be filmed, and I wouldn’t be surprised if they get a bigger discount to be a huge pain in the ass.
They demand a Japanese tasting menu on night one, and it’s literally the night before they arrive. That does seem weird to me, because pretty sure you need specific ingredients for that. Lawrence is perturbed to say the least.
Anyone wanna place bets on how long this guy lasts?? I would say like maybe two – three more charters before he loses it completely.
Fraser appeases him by reassuring him ‘he knows’ as he’s bitching up a storm.
No Fraser you don’t know. You just serve the shit. He has to actually make it.
Barbara complains to Fraser about Solene. Too soon to start bitching.
Of course we have to assign a lead deckhand and 2nd stew just to get everyone jealous and riled up. The boys are not going to be happy with answering to a girl.
Kerry wants to take a stew with him to pick up the guests and Fraser chooses Solene, the least likely choice in my opinion. Maybe because she’s the prettiest?
SHE doesn’t even understand why she’s chosen.
Weather is not the best. Fraser should have maybe asked Solene if she hates kids or not before she sent her on this assignment, which she clearly does.
Is this black light thing for real? People like that need to just stay the hell home. Are there going to be things showing up on a bed where thousands and thousands of people have been doing the wild thing on? You’re an idiot to think there wouldn’t be. Stay home.
They don’t want lunch, and do an early dinner at 6:30? That should make the chef happy. I guess they don’t care if their kids are hungry?
Barbara with an accent and Solene have it out about the way Barbara communicates, which isn’t really the best.
How in the hell did the luggage get left behind on the dock? That seems ‘fishy.’
Why would no one think to put the luggage on the boat? Or see it sitting there?
Kerry keeps giving Chef pep talks because he can see him melting down.
Not sure how the germaphobes would feel about the stews squatting on the table to decorate it, but who am I to say?
If there ever was a male Karen, it’s this primary dude.
He demands that his steak is well-done with no pink whatsoever.
Aaaand of course there’s pink in his meat.
Then they all complain about their steaks being cold and tough.
I feel like this happens a lot on Below Deck with steaks. I think they just don’t get the best cuts of beef on yachts, in the ocean. There are no cows around. It’s not like these chefs don’t know how to cook a fucking steak.
I don’t know what the chef is supposed to do if they’re saying the steaks are tough. You can’t really fix that. And if the cuts are bad and he redid the dishes, it’s likely going to be the same situation.
I guess they realize that, and tell him to skip the steak course.
Didn’t seem like they had much to eat, but maybe they didn’t show all of the courses.
It’s morning and Lawrence is already in a mood. There’s an issue with the burners and he starts yelling at the camera crew to leave.
He keeps claiming he can deal with anything but this is too much and he’s never like this. I don’t know. I’m calling bull shit.
Producer tries to reason with him that the camera crew is doing their job and he can’t be kicking them out of the galley.
Well he’s having a temper tantrum. Which I’m sure he never does. Ever.
He tells Kerry he can’t do another charter.
Guess I was wrong about the 2nd or 3rd charter.
