Below Deck was the highest rated show on Bravo Last week with 2.11 million views (if I recall correctly). It even surpassed RHOA, who FINALLY broke two million THIS week for the first time all season. Below Deck surpassed every show in their timeslot (including broadcast TV) in the coveted 18-34/18-49 timeslot (I forget which one). This is a bigass deal and means we probably have at least five more years of this show. Let’s see if this episode can lap RHOA again.
The titular comment was made by Laura to Kate. CLEARLY her ass is going to be fired. I do not doubt it for a second. But not until Ashton hits it a few times.
What exactly is a drop cloth? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Why are there 46 hours before the next charter? Why is Rhylee telling folks what to do? I guess it was the new guy. She loves bossing people around by her own admission.
At the end of the first night setting up the boat again, Ross and Ashton have a talk. Ashton lets Ross know that when he got back on the boat and Ross hugged him it made him feel safe and at home. Aw. Ross is still struggling to talk about the accident to this day. Why does the new deckhand think Rhylee is his boss?
We get another delightful shot of Ashton’s ass as he pulls on jeans with no underwear. Ross questions his decision and he replies, “Easy access.” Ashton is a scoundrel, but his ass if fine. I need to rewind as to not miss all the good stuff while recapping.
I love that we are starting with the first shore leave since the accident. Laura orders tequila. TEQUILA, BAD! Says this drunk. JUST SAY NOT TO TEQUILA! Laura starts holding hands with a confused Chef Adrian. I am not sure Chef Adrian does the sex with anyone. I think he might be the A In LGBTQIA… and I am pretty good with this stuff. Then he says he is in an open relationship with his girlfriend. I think that is because he doesn’t have sex.
Tyler, the new deckhand, shares that after high school he was headed for college “for track” not for you know the education, but simply to run around in circles. Sadly he was in a car accident with lots of his buddies and they went over a cliff. No one died but it ruined his athletic career. I am not making this up, I too went over a cliff in MY CAR that my boyfriend was driving. I may or may not have been um, paying very good attention to him. My car was totaled and we were not seriously injured but did go the hospital. He broke up with me shortly afterward because his mother hated me for, among other reasons she was VERY anal retentive and had wet trash and dry trash in her kitchen and while trying to help I fucked up the system somehow. And I as a bit older but not by much and we both worked at Macy*s. I was selling ties and he was the scrawniest security guard on planet earth. We were coming back from a trip to I think Myrtle Beach for spring break and he had a migraine the whole time NOT MY FAULT I SWEAR! He was very fragile! And I basically did my own thing the whole trip while he would put cold towels over his eyes.
My brother and his wife had to come get me. I was sunburned and wearing one of those LIFEGUARD white tank tops with my tits hanging out and no bra, and they were GOOD then and caused the whole issue. And his parents belonged to Mt. Paran. Anyway, I was pretty banged up because I had taken my seatbelt off and also I was drinking in the passenger seat so thing were not lined up properly. My car was totaled and his mother refused to let us date. He got super pissed that I was too injured to go to his church baseball game, but really it was his mother. She was a cunt.
Um, moving on? #Overshare
Tyler says he got road rash everywhere (we landed UPSIDE DOWN) and he was picking gravel out of his skin. I was picking out glass from beer bottles that were in a styrofoam cooler between my legs. I think passengers could drink then and he did not drink due to his migraine meds so he was sober and I was drunk and the cops were confused as to why he lost control of the vehicle which was mine. (AHEM. …)
Tyler explains that he lives every day like it is his last and that is why he is a firefighter.
Kate shuts down whatshername during dinner saying that her opinion on whether to go out again is irrelevant. Ashton decides to hook up with Laura. IN THE URINAL. Tyler asks Ross ( I am confused) if he can hook up with Rhylee and Ross replies “You’d be doing me a favor.” Somehow Rhylee hears from the girls room and is pissed at Ross.
Jesus this post is already too long and we are nine minutes in. I am going to be very brief from here on out.
Tyler and Josiah confront Laura about being such a rude cunt after she talks shit about them. Laura drunkenly complains to Ashton about being mistreated. Laura and Ashton fuck. Rhylee and Tyler fuck. Adrian is confused because he held hands with Laura. THEY HELD HANDS Y’ALL!
We see Captain Lee tanning the next day as the crew works. I love it. Then he calls a meeting for the new primaries. They are all co primaries. That’s new.
Josiah tries to get on good terms with Laura. This furthers her course to be fired. Ross and Rhylee make up. The next night Rhylee and Tyler hook up again. Adrian seems to be into Laura but talking to his girlfriend. Guys suck.
Unfortunately during all of this, the guests are arriving. Adrian seems to have the hots for Laura.
Kate starts using Rhylee as a server instead of Laura. OUCH! Tyler drops anchor instead of Rhylee. Drama. Chauvinism! But they keep on hooking up on the job!
Everything seem to be going well… And then… Am I confused about Laura? I am suddenly scrolling up as I am lost. I am having back spasms a lot. I could be telling this all wrong!
Once again, Laura sucks at turn downs and Kate goes off on Laura. Then Laura goes OFF on Kate and tells her she needs to check herself. Guess who is fired now?
Next week: The lovers and haters continue to fight.
” I may or may not have been um, paying very good attention to him”. My favorite scene from the eternally relevant film “Parenthood” is when Gil (Steve Martin) and Karen (Mary Steenburgen) are driving, and she experiments with her new way to “relax” him. Cut to Gil and Karen standing outside the wrecked car with a pair of cops. The car has a crumpled hood through which steam is rising. Cop #1 pulls out his notebook and barks toward Gil, “Okay. So how’d this happen?” Gil hesitates a minute, then turns to Karen and says, “Show him, honey!”
Parenthood is a great movie!
I am liking the story to Curb Your Enthusiasm when Susie and Jeff get into an accident and need a plastic packaging knife to get them out because………………………………..
Will watch tommorow. Kudos to this cast for bringing in the ratings ! This whole season has been good. Not a single dud episode. Kate getting Laura fired is going to be good. I must admit I do like the softer side of Kate we have been seeing this season. If Joshiah remains a permanent cast member I will be ecstatic. Love his work ethic & friendship with Kate
It really is the perfect BD cast! I literally want zero cast changes for at least two more seasons… except for third stew. Let’s keep that rotating with annoyingly incompetent stews that get fired every 3 or 4 episodes. It keeps Kate on her toes which is when she is most entertaining. I’d even keep Rhylee around for the drama. Adrian is starting to annoy me a bit but his food is beyond exceptional.
I hope Bravo considers keeping Tahiti as a permanent destination and adds the Caribbean back as the third series in the franchise. Tahiti is so fricking beautiful. With ratings being so good, I think it would be in Bravo’s best interest to expand.
I wonder whose idea it was for Adrian and his girlfriend to have an open relationship? He seemed very upset talking to her on the phone.
Prior to this episode, I assumed that the open relationship was Adrian’s idea. Guys are pigs! But he sounded so needy and insecure during his phone call with his girlfriend.
I’m with Tamara on Adrian not doing the sex. He’s into his food, which looks so yummy that even his “poor people” chicken made my stomach growl.
I want Ben back
Ben is a dick in real life. Allegedly.
I could see that. That sucks. Fuck him then.
It looks to me like rhylee is alseep when they get it on. Check out her face, its almost exactly as when she is knocked out. Why does she always dress so trashy.
Come on she wears white see thru clothes, no underthings, bras instead of shirts and the tightest shortest shorts. The problem with this, is its always to restaurants, its the wrong place. Inappropriate.
She really should have been fired long ago for her insubordination
Im all about women over men, but she becomes indefensible, when she cusses and yells at her co workers.
Laura doesnt do anything like a chief stew. If she ever was one, she wouldnt talk back to kate. Because she would know the “rules”
The excuse about not giving a shit because she didnt turn down the rooms correctly? Come on, its because she didnt do her job as great as she thought. So instead of admitting it, she made up some crap. At the same time saying she has a higher standard.
Such crap
Does “Vogue” even mail to Alaskan zip codes? I live in WI. Girls here think “camoflage” is a style! 🙂
If anyone working under me spoke to me like that, she’d be off that boat that night. Done. Who the heck does she think she is??? Rhylee is so… what’s the word? Trashy? Low class? I’d say trailer trash but that’s insulting trailer trash… with her white bra under that ratty old filthy whatever blue jean thing she had on? Seriously?? Ugh. Love Kate & Josiah.
I just read that what Rhylee was wearing was “Farmers Only Chic”
HA HA HA
Perfect description.
Kate has a drunken confrontation with Laura. Wish she had waited. Well deserved but the timing was sooooo wrong! Laura seems to have zero idea about what she is doing wrong and blames her ineptitude on Kate’s attitude.
Exactly..she yelled at kate for checking the rooms before dinner service was over, before kates shift was over and thats why the towels were on the floor…
Its not kates shift or timing that is the issue. Laura said she was Done, HER WORK WAS FINISHED, so kate went to make sure before the guests went down. Kate has every right, and thats her job to quality check. Is laura saying that if kate would have waited until her shift was done, the rooms would have somehow been cleaned properly?
What does the timing of kate checking, since laura said she was done, have to do with quality of lauras job?
Shes being held up to a standard she complained she had but kate didnt. Wth?
Drunken confrontation? She just showed her what more needed to be done. Laura was the one who went nuts.
I think Dilly was talking about at the beginning of the show, when they go back from drinking. Josiah stirred the pot a little and Kate went to ask Laura about it, and was slightly bitchy. Not that I blame Kate but it gave Laura something else to sulk about.
Why does Josiah suddenly claim he thinks Laura is a “lovely girl” and he shouldn’t have told Kate Laura thinks she hates her?
We say drop cloth when referring to a big piece of cloth we put on the floor so as not to get paint, etc on the carpet.
THANK THE HEAVENLY FATHER ABOVE! Kate told that annoying gnat of a third stew to stuff it. Laura? Lauren? Whatever her name is an A hole.
OMG!! Who needs recaps when we can get TT stories? My 32 yr old son recently told me he scraped the side of our brand new explorer when he was 17 coming back from his gf’s house. He thought “what am I going to tell Mom and Dad?” He promptly lost control of the car and plunged down an 80′ drop. This is the mountains y’all. When he landed he was standing on the passenger window (totally unhurt) and his first thought was “Well, now I don’t have to explain that scratch!!” Still watching the episode but TT you need to share MORE!! You have the best stories. Glad Below Deck is killing it. If I was 22 again I would totally want to be a second stew!!
I love TT’s stories plus the sharing her commenters add. Oh the perils of driving parents cars!!!
Oh, the stories that come out 15 years later!!
Right?
My niece is in town staying at my parent’s house (her grandparents ) she text me to get coffee tomorrow, please pick up, grandma doesn’t want her driving her car, had to giggle…she’s been driving for many years..!
Don’t think Laura is getting fired. If you watch the trailer, there’s a bunch of clips with her while other charter guests are their. It ain’t happening…. I also think the turndown situation seems producer driven. I’m stating the obvious but this is the best season of Below Deck; im glad it was the highest rated show on bravo and hopefully the ratings only get better….
Agree, even though Kate tries to get her fired. I guess Capt. Lee decided it’s too late in the season to find another stew. In addition to the numerous clips with Laura, she seems to be friendly with Kate on Twitter now. They must’ve had a meeting of the minds somehow. But I don’t know WHERE TF Laura worked before, where it’s acceptable to leave dirty towels on the floor?! Even the most modest hotel/motel chains like Comfort Inn have made beds & clean towels! Millennial standards?👀😂
Oh Shit! Im still flabbergasted by the way Laura lost her shit with Kate! I love how Kate makes her lose total control! Laura doesn’t even make any sense….Laura, you need to check yourself Boo! Rylee is a Hoe. Tyler better watch himself with this one…Dangerous!
Adrian is just too soft for me, too insecure and needy. His food is fabulous tho…
Ross is just, ugh. Ashton is nothing but eye candy, nice ass, no class!
I love Josiah! He does his job well and so fun to be around, I totally love the banter between him and Kate, they get people all in their feelings. “They don’t like me”, “they’re talking about me” Hahaha! Love it!!
Most favorite show ever! Captain Lee does it BEST
Cheers TT, nice recap!
I LOVE that movie! Thanks for reminding me, I need to rewatch again soon.
PS. Yes, you are a very good writer. Glad you also defend and support your fm’s. Like you bunches!
Shoot darn! My comment was in reply to DaliaMama, sorry!
This episode was so juicy…in every sense of the word! Haha, lots of hook ups, and lots of gossiping! This is why Below Deck is top dog for sure!
My rose and thorn this episode:
Rose- Ashton’s bare bottom!
Thorn- Laura saying “sore-ree” sarcastically about 100 times.
Thanks for the recap!
I think term is actually “drop towel”. I’ve seen towels used on deck that have “drop” written them with magic marker. I assume they are just old towels that are no longer suitable for use by the guests and are used by the deck crew for cleaning. I guess that they write “drop” on them so they aren’t accidentally used in the interior.
Tamara, I love how Tyler picking gravel out if his legs triggered your memory of picking glass out of your thighs.Hilarious and so kind of you to share!
Agree.The more #Over share the better the recap. It’s like sitting across from your bestie when T.T. takes us for a stroll down memory lane. Her recollections & perspective on the past charm me. Great recap!
This production company is a hoot. Loved when they showed all the love birds getting it on, including two dogs humping on the dock. Hilarious.
Omg I saw that too and thought it was sooo funny!
I can’t believe it but I like Kate this season. She’s been more than accommodating to her inept third stews. I was impressed with how professional she was with Laura when she was helping her get ready for the tender ride. Kate was even pleasant despite Laura’s passive aggressiveness.
Laura has to go. I can’t imagine ever reprimanding my boss the way she told Kate to check herself. I didn’t see any aggression from Kate to warrant that tirade. If anything she was trying to calm Laura down while she was being emotional. I hope she gets fired next week. I’m over Laura already.
Rhylee sucks. Her paranoia about bring marginalized has her jumping to negative conclusions. If she wants to bring Ross and Ashton around to her side and give her more responsibility, she could try being nice and not so reactionary. If I were on that boat, I’d avoid her and her negativity as much as possible.
Lastly, I really like Adrian, he’s a loveable goofball. He’s an extremely talented chef and nice to look at, but the dude has got no swag. His hitting on Laura by putting Ashton down was wack. I was yelling at my TV, telling him to step up with better game.
Rhylee is bad news. She sure has a problem with authority figures and those types are trouble. I am really enjoying Adrian and the way he prepares food. It’s like watching the food channel. I hope they keep this cast as they sure have been good for the ratings and fun to watch minus the third stew and Rhylee.
Kate is a bully, period and has met her match. Josiah is a backstabber and can’t stand up to anyone on his own, that is why he bullies with Kate. Kudos to Laura for standing up for herself to that idiot. Ashton is such a sweetheart and his laugh is so cute. Adrian is hilarious, especially talking about Ashton. Those two are my favorites. Rhylee needs to be put in her place, she is wayyyy out of line talking to her superior like that.
#HiLaura
For sure 😂
#hi Laura for sure
Soooooorrreeeyyyy Laura.
Adrian really does what he can to undercut the other males in the eyes of any new female. Just jealousy because he has no “game.”
If I were Rhylee or the new 3rd stew, I’d be embarrassed at what was aired. No class. At all.
But the men involved are okay. No comment on them. Ashton who f*cked” a woman on the pier in a van and rubbed up against any women he could in the clubs. If my memory serves, in Rhylee case this is the first time she actually slept with a man on the boat. The previous attempts were just kissing, one initiated by Ross and another time by Aston who got a polite brush-off
I hate double standards.
I agree. Rhylee will be crucified for he sexual tryst but that never happens to the men. While I don’t agree with her reckless mouth, there is a bit of a gender issue involved there as well.
I agree.
There has been an awful lot of slut-shaming of Rhylee. The girl just wants some dick. And there’s nothing wrong with that!
And I think I understand where she’s coming from now when she confronts her male superiors for underestimating her ability. She’s probably had to deal with a shitload of ugly misogyny while pursuing her career in Alaska.
Ten bucks says that a review of Laura’s “resume” will show ZERO stew experience. Rather, I think it will show “aspiring actress”…Of any Bravolebrities we have seen so far, she seems to me to be the most obvious of a hire for ratings. She knows exactly what she is doing, and she is there to rattle Kate’s cage! I am not impressed. And, honestly, I’m still pissed from last week with all the buildup over Ashton going overboard. It’s feeling too contrived right now. Obviously, the producers strategies are working, if ratings are up that high, but I’m just not into it with it seeming so fake. My favorite part of the whole episode was Captain Lee laying out in the sun!! : )
Laura is a fitness chick although smoking on camera cannot be helping her “healthy living “ brand 🙄
For real! I partake in the vape from time to time, however I’m not branding myself as the yacht’s health/wellness guru.
Can we have a craziest shit we’ve ever done post? TT you go first-tag you’re it!!
I sat there with my mouth open when Laura told Kate to check herself and acted as though she was the Chief Stew reprimanding a subordinate! Incredible! The look on Kate’s face was priceless, and you know she’ll get vengeance. Laura is incredibly arrogant and really would have been sent home on the spot if she was in a different profession. Can’t wait to see what comes of Kate’s ultimatum to Captain Lee.
Nothing says classy lady like banging someone in a urinal. The odor of urinal cake is such a turn on! Love Kate. She’s got to be a Capricorn. Yes, I’m all into astrology. I blame my mom for having so many Linda Goodman books around a bookworm child. 🙂
Kate’s a Capricorn alright. Looked it up.
Oh my gosh! I have Linda Goodman books too!
Yay!! I’m so glad I’m not the only one! Seriously none of my friends know anything about her or her books. I’m so sad that the originals were lost in Katrina.
The guests were a very odd mix! One of the blonde ladies has been a guest before. Didn’t she get super drunk & get sick on a past charter?
We had a dumb cunt like Laura who worked with us for just over a year. Same attitude and had all the dramas and traumas and had to keep taking time off. She would talk to the boss like that, stunned. Ours ended up fired after being given sooo many chances to change her ways. Laura and Rylee both and a cancer, they need to go. Laura is ridiculous, and yes I want to punch her but I seriously have more of an issue with Rylees behavior. Laura is an idiot and we all know it. Rylee is just plain out nasty. Either do it like she wants or she will shred you and anyone else. I’ve known a few females like her and I think she thinks how she dresses is sexy, um maybe on the fishing docks in the arctic that is hot but in the real world as anyone see is trash.
“Has the sex…” literally laughing my ass off. Good one TT.
In my opinion, the sexual escapades were expected from Ashton, he just comes across as a whore dog to me. Guys just tend to put it out there that they are looking to get laid. Ashton did that from the beginning. So NO on double standards or crucifiction. Just obvious, they are both equally hoes….As are a lot of people, some are just more out there than others.IMO
Cheers TT
Ashton makes me laugh. So quick to hit it. You’d think he’s been to sea (without a woman) for months and starving for the sight of a one!. Has he EVER had a long term relationship? Or, is he one of those poor souls who spends a lifetime with a series of one-night-stands. Kinda feel sorry for the dude!
Lol . . Happy you survived, TT. Your story about Tyler totally eclipsed this episode of Below Deck! More . . . . more!
I can’t stand Laura. They should bring Amy in with those 3 on stew duty huge tips will follow. Laura looks and acts like she belongs on Jersey Shore even though she is Canadian with her sooooowwwrryy….