We start with the love triangle or Brianna, Matt and Nico. Nico feels guilty about his feelings and video chats with his girlfriend. Matt asks Brianna to go on a beach picnic since she agreed to a date the night before. Bri reluctantly agrees but lets us know she really doesn’t think Matt is her type. Nico is nervous about the upcoming changes to the deck crew. Chris Brown is hungover again and unhappy that he has to work. Nico complains to Captain Lee about Chris Brown.
The new guests include a trained gourmet chef. It’s a ten year wedding anniversary. They don’t drink. That’s a new twist. It’s also only two couples. The primary charter guest, Brad is the chef, and also a schmuck.
Jen is pissed that Matt and Bri are going on a lunch date. Jen wants to know if she has to be sexually promiscuous to get extra time off. Jen please, Brianna hasn’t done anything with anyone other than bat her eyelashes as best as I can recall. Jen annoys me. Not to mention the Bri and Matt date is in the script and right there on the call sheet.
Matt is nervous about his date so he drank a lot of liquid courage. A LOT of liquid courage. So he is drunk as a skunk by the time their 3:30 date comes around. Drunk Matt is not cute. The producers sent them to a nude beach without telling them. Sneaky. Within five minutes Matt is asking her to buy an van or an airstream with him and travel the world. He guzzles some co-cola in a Jack Daniels bottle and suggests they get naked like everyone else. Brianna is looking for an exit strategy. As Matt gets drunker he starts alternating between begging Bri to love him and calling her an asshole and a bad date. Maybe it really is Jack Daniels. Yep. He’s really drunk. We find out that there reason Matt and his girlfriend broke up was because of his drinking. Mark is embarrassed and doesn’t really speak to anyone for the entire cruise.
Captain Lee has hired EJ to come on and be the Bosun. I find EJ annoying already. He is the one who said “cool beans” which is the official episode titles. Nico is pissed. So is Chris Brown because he doesn’t have a bunk anymore and will be sleeping in the crew mess where the crew eats. That’s interesting and something that can’t go on for long. EJ screws up and leaves a stern line on when they leave the dock. This pisses Nico off. EJ says “cool beans” all the time. This pisses everyone off. Nico is doing all the work.
Matt is hungover and seems nervous about his meals for the first time. The first lunch, a salad with chicken breast, was well received. For dinner, he makes scallops and brussel spout risotto. The risotto is undercooked. The woman having steak said her steak was way past medium. It looked medium to me. Desert was bananas Foster. It was unimpressive. Kate seems disturbed that Matt didn’t seem to care about the negative feedback. After dinner, fireworks went off to celebrate the second couple’s anniversary. The guest went to bed at 9:40. This means the will be up at butt crack of dawn thirty.
The next morning, Matt finds the primary roaming in his kitchen looking for coffee. Jen has overslept and instead of flying down to take care of her guest, spends 30 minutes doing her hair.
EJ screwed up pulling up the anchor. Nico will be letting the Captain know about that right away.
Next week: Jen floods the laundry room by putting too much detergent in the washers. It looks like Bruno drives the tender into a mega yacht. Kate and Bri gang up on Jen. And things with EJ and Nico come to a boil.
Capt Lee was right to get Nico some help, but he could have told him about first. Chris just needs to go, now. Matt does not need to drink. Not a funny drunk. I guess Jesus pulled anchor and sailed away. Kate seemed lonely. Jen, oh Jen, just do your work and watch those crazy eyes. EJ may not be as perfect as he thinks he is. Watch out. Hope Bri stays away from Nico, would hate to see him go astray.
I love Nico, but he’s acting like a spoiled brat. He obviously is not ready for the bosun position because the Stud of the Sea brought in EJ. He is further demonstrating his lack of leadership skills with his attitude and conversations, undermining his new “boss”. I’m just going to chalk it up to his age.
And stupid Chris Brown says he doesn’t answer to anyone but God??? Buddy, your captain IS your God on a boat. He has no business being there.
Totally agree. If Nico was as ready for a leadership position as he THINKS he is, he wouldn’t be bad-mouthing the real members of the leadership team. The fact that he runs his mouth and stirs the pot shows his true colors as nothing but a task-oriented worker bee.
We must have another Jim here. And he likes hyphens as much as I do, lol.
For anyone interested in sailing like I am, the Maltese Falcon shown on tonight’s show is a marvel. It’s a sailboat, but instead of a full crew needed to trim sails and tend all the rigging it’s done by one person using technology on one panel. To trim the sails, instead of adjusting the sheets manually, the entire mast rotates. Under full sail it looks like an old square rigged ship.
It can be chartered, I can only imagine what that would cost.
omg the constant bitching last night! The primary guest, Jen, Nico, Matt. Why does Matt have to be so surly to everyone else because he made a mess of things in the first place? Maybe it is something that goes with heavy drinkers and serious regret, but any chef show will tell you risotto is really hard, why would he make that if he is not feeling up to par?
and these other people, do they not realize they work for two days, then get to party for a day or two and the whole thing is over in one season. They were not drafted, for crying out loud, they wanted to be there, and they make more money than I do! aauugggh. It has been a terrible, week, obviously I am in no mood….
Amen to that!
Bad episode for all. Capt Lee is obviously pissed at Nico as well as the rest of the crew for the screw ups. And Nico is behaving badly.
Jen just have to shut up. When I saw her doing her hair while she was late, I wanted to smack her. And her comments are out of control.
No words for chef. Just badly done all around.
The mood of the ship seems to be determined by the guests, these guests are not fun. I know non-drinkers that still have fun, but this is one dull and critical group. I will say though Kate seemed really down the whole show barely smiled at the guests. The whole dynamic was bad. Matt needed to pull off something just a bit special for this group for the tip- this one was all on him. I mean he youtubed sushi, why not youtube something for this picky group! Curious to see what the tip is.
This was a disaster to watch. #1 Captain Lee should have prepared Niko that EJ was coming aboard. EJ
asserted his bragging rights right away, which I thought was uncool. Niko should not have shown his true feelings….which I find a sign of immaturity. Although EJ and Niko were working I did not see any sign that EJ was more knowledgeable about yachting. Seems to me Jen was just a hot mess lol lol you gotta laugh at her. Bri, I have no comment about other than she should leave Niko alone. Matt is clearly out of his element and should go throw hash at a diner and also throw the bottle away forever. Damn, I make a mean looking Banana Foster flaming. His was disgusting. No resemblance of a Banana Foster at all. He is not a good drunk. Chris Brown should wave goodbye to the crew and leave. I guess every episode needs an idiot and this one has several.
I want to know what you think is the best way for someone to come in to a disaster. Remember Nico let the ship hit the dock. For EJ to come in hard is what that bit of disaster needed.
Was laughing at Kate saying “I can’t smell that” to Jen. Yes, you look like you can’t smell., but I love you anyway.
I just listened to Kate’s podcast and she literally cannot smell – was born without the ability apparently and talked about having surgery to correct that.
Got to see Captain Lee in shorts and a tank top. Matt, I don’t find him hot, and after seeing him drink before and during a date, he is a nope. I’ll probably be alone in liking EJ so far. Jen, bless her heart, she is unaware of her inadequacies.
The last guests were boring.
Did you miss Cap. Lee topless last week?
I actually preferred him dressed in a tank and shorts. 🙂
Is it just me or does EJ not look like a very young Sam Neill (Jurassic Park)? Is there a mole involved? Not sure, but there’s something there.
I didn’t notice the resemblance, but maybe. I did notice how he’s so young. It’s hard to take seriously that he is so very experienced & top of his game when he looks like he just graduated high school. Must be the Doogie Howser of boatswains.
yep, he’s got that certain something…like in hollywood when they say, “he has it whatever it is”.
I am so sick of the chef/dude in charge/second lady in charge on the boat love triangle.
We’ve seen it for the last 3 seasons of below deck/below deck med. (See bemily and Kelly, Wes/Malia/chef dude, and to some extent ben/tiffany/Brian). I don’t enjoy watching superiors cross boundaries they shouldn’t, especially when women are treated an object and the dudes stupidly peacock over them.
I ALSO wish they would stop casting “types” (but not the hot non American deckhands, I loved Bruno, Emile, the British dude from deck med. I really dislike Lauren, but you need a counterbalance). Are all of the dockhands always bro y jerks? Is the third stew always an entitled brat and/or space case (except Amy of course)?
My other theory is that crew members hit the red bull instead of drinking during charter and it turns them into the most aggressive jerky version of themselves.
Unfortunately, guys ‘peacocking’ is the real world.
That whole “locker room talk” thing is reality and your average man is very, very gross. I’ve been on the inside. It still feels dirty listening to these pigs and watching them in action.
Matt looks like one of my ex-husbands. Acts the same way when drunk. Hence the ex part.
This is sort of off-topic, but I randomly found out the other day that Erica from BB (and All-Stars…you know, the one that Boogie used so infamously?) — is the casting director for Below Deck and Below Deck Mediterranean. Kinda cool!
I vaguely remember her. I tend to forget all the BB people the second the season is over. I’m old and my brain is full. But still that is cool.
Captain Lee is a jerk. I thought he was good the first season, but he really is clueless how to create a good dynamic, & he’s CATTY. He loves to disparage people behind their backs. Can’t stand Chris, but the guy is right. If you don’t like what he’s doing, have a grown-up conversation instead of gossiping about it.
Bringing EJ in is not a strategic move. It shows a lack of leadership. Duh – bringing in a new guy to lord over others without warning is not just mean, it’s stupid.
The immaturity starts at the top, & just because Lee has a distinguished look…Well, don’t judge a book by its cover.
I tend to agree with you but give Capt. Lee the benefit of a doubt before condemning him. I think this was ‘producer-driven drama’. This season is a bit dull and needs conflict… hence the new boatswain. And pan-o-water boring Nico was never the boatswain. He was only the lead deckhand.
I started hating on Capt Lee last season with his intolerant treatment of Kelley. If you hire someone you think isn’t qualified for the job, then the onus is on you to train them UP. Not tear them down constantly. It’s a setup for failure, & if that’s how you give people a 2nd chance, you are the one who has growing up to do.
And shame on anyone who plays with people’s lives (or psyches) for the sake of a producer’s suggestion, if indeed that is the case.
Yes, I think Capt. Lee is not so great anymore, gone hollywood I guess, however a few seasons ago Kelly was working on the boat and went after this deckhand and she kept telling him no but finally said yes…he led her on to believe they were going to get a place together when the season was over he dumped her…it was so obvious he was going to do that…I think production put him up to that…it was awful…AND THEN on the reunion show Kelly said something about her that was so nasty and shady Capt. Lee cringed, everybody cringed.
Yeah – that whole thing with Kelley & the female deckhand was uncomfortable. But he seemed very dedicated to changing his ways last season. Hope he’s out there growing up while working on other boats. He severed ties with the cast it seems, which is step #1.
I don’t think Captain Lee has much say on who is cast as his deck hands and or stews.
If he did , they would all be qualified. Blame Bravo and production. I am sure he has to have the First Mate and Engineer approval.. those that can actually run the boat.
I’m not sure Kelly was changing his ways – do you remember him throwing himself at Emily? I wanted to vomit last season when he was draping himself on her at the water park they went to for the sponsored “day off”
Matt actually drunk? Absolutely! No sober person puts their shirt on while their back (and head!) is covered in sand. That is an act of a very drunk person. Semi-sober people try to remove any trace of sand (always futilely) before leaving the beach.
I was sad that he’s straight before this episode but thankful now. What a pig! Even worse, he’s an over-sensitive pussy millennial. God, I hate being that… “get off of my lawn” guy. But fuck it… GET OFF OF MY LAWN!
Does anyone else remember in the preview Matt saying something like “I’ll let you pour your own (drink) so I can’t be accused of drugging you”? I wonder why that was edited out of this episode?
I don’t think it’s likely that it’s from a future episode because Bri should have enough sense to stay far away from this sexual-predator/millennial-pussy.
I missed that in the preview. I do like that Matt is self reflective. If there’s anything real going on on camera, this could be his life-changing epiphany. But the smoke & mirrors of editing skews any chance of knowing the reality of the situation.
My advice to Matt… be self-reflective on your own time. Paying guests (yes, even on this show, they pay) on the yacht shouldn’t have to suffer while you come to grips with your alcoholism and misogyny.
I’ve never been so infatuated with a person and hated them more quickly than this guy. There is nothing he can do now to redeem himself in my eyes. And typically, I’m VERY tolerant of performers on reality shows.
Why couldn’t she have just said NO I don’t want to go on a date with you b/c clearly she wasn’t interested in him from the beginning.
I thought Bri’s outfit she wore to the beach was cute, but she practically covered her whole body, which seems to me to be the opposite of what one does on a beach date with a cute guy, so it was evidence enough for me that she has ZERO interest in Matt. Or maybe I think that cuz I had THOT tendencies in the ’80’s….lol
OMG. “THOT tendencies”. That is gold!!
Jen could pass for Kim Richards Jr. even with those Ramona eyes. I suspect a poo pillow was stashed in the luggage she had Matt carry aboard. Catching up on this season and after two episodes find myself rooting for Rocky’s return.
Jen’s hair really bugs me. Too long. Also, it seems like it is always worn down. Isn’t hair supposed to be tied up in ponytail or bun when preparing drinks, food and serving? If it were my yacht, that would be the case.