Well boys and squirrels, it’s time for the Below Deck Recap. It’s the reunion and I am already pissed before even watching it. I’ve heard that Elizabeth is going to talk shit about Captain Lee. If true, this could make her more hated than pretty much anyone on the planet that is not orange. You don’t get to smack talk Captain Lee. EVER. Let’s get right to it!
It’s a virtual reunion of course, everyone is too spread out to fly in during a pandemic. Francesca is in Australia filming at 4 am. Rachel is in quarantine in Italy. James is in the UK. Izzy is in New Zealand. Ashling is home in Australia. Shane is there from San Francisco. Rob is not there. He is in Figi. Izzy says that Rob never seemed like he wanted to be there. And he was an asshole to production. Izzy says Rob is weak.
Do You Think I’m Stupid?
We are going to start with Shane, the sustainable idiot. Shane says that he gave 100% of effort to his job. Andy’s second question is from a viewer who thought Eddie was kind of harsh when he said about Shane, “You can’t fix stupid.” Shane says, “If this show is just going to be about roasting me, I’m literally going to walk off.” Really? He’s going to Nene his way out of this? Bye, Shane. Shane asks Eddie if he really thinks he is stupid. Eddie lies and says he is a smart kid but is just not cut out for yachting. James says he has never watched a reunion show. He is having the time of his life. James says that he tried to help Shane. Then Shane is let go.
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So, Nanette was kind enough to pull photos for tonight’s episode and she labeled them properly with everyone’s names. I keep having to look at the photos to recognize the girls because they all look really different. Are we really sure that is even Elizabeth? Rachel takes the whole all chefs are weird and arrogant to the next level. Rachel seems to have softened her stance on Francesca after seeing the show and understanding what went on. She seems to be distancing from Elizabeth. Which is smart.
About Rachel’s scary drunken behavior she says she is just a wild stallion. Eddie says he was worried about her behavior. But, he didn’t want to say anything to her about it because he was afraid she would quit again. Rachel says that Captain Lee comparing her to his deceased son made a big impact on her. She holds him in the highest regard.
Please Love Me!
Next, we move on to Elizabeth who I do not even recognize and it’s not just the weird disco disco duck kind of outfit. She was much prettier on the boat. James gets some heat from the guys for his excessive eyebrow plucking. James says he thought it was obvious that they would not be together after filming because they live in different countries. That makes sense to me. James and Elizabeth both say it was the other person who decided to go screw in a guest cabin. Elizabeth was apparently shocked watching the show to see how James talked about her. But as of yet no one has asked if she is mortified by her 13 year old school girl behavior around him.
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James doesn’t like when Andy calls it a relationship. He says he has no regrets. Captain Lee says if it hadn’t happened on a boat it would have been a one night stand (I kind of miss those, lol). James says it sounds like Captain Lee knows him well. Then we move on to Izzy and her relationship with James and Rob. Izzy thinks Rob is a coward for not doing the reunion. Apparently, Rob has not even watched the season. Rachel says she talks to Rob all the time and he is actually working right now. I don’t understand the whole “digging for gold” nonsense. Can someone explain that to me? Izzy says that the reason she didn’t apply to be deckhand originally was because she had been assaulted by men on her previous boat. WOW. That’s rough.
Why Is Francesca The Issue For Elizabeth’s Fuck Ups?
People seem to think that Francesca was mean to Elizabeth? Elizabeth now says she has four and a half years of experience “on and off.” She totally lied about her experience. Elizabeth thinks that Francesca and Ashling were bullies. Captain Lee is laughing along with the rest of the viewers. BTW, Captain Lee has not been asked a single thing. And he is wearing a tie. He must feel like, “I got all dressed up for this and Andy is ignoring me? Rachel and Izzy continue to support Elizabeth. WHY NOT ASK CAPTAIN LEE? Bu the way Francesca looks STUNNING! Apparently, Nanette doesn’t like her either! LOL.
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Ashling says that Elizabeth is just not cut out for the job. BREAKING NEWS! Captain Lee is getting a question!!! He is asked about Elizabeth’s performance and he says that Francesca is right about Elizabeth. He says that people excel at what they like and he doesn’t think that Elizabeth enjoys being a yachtie. Elizabeth says that Captain Lee never really got to know her and didn’t know what was going on. Girl PLEASE. Ashling says that Elizabeth just doesn’t like being called out. Elizabeth is very nervy here. She says that she never felt “uplifted”. Girl, you had simple jobs. Make beds. Scrub toilets. Serve dinner. And you failed at them all consistently. What exactly is it you are so proud of and demand recognition for???
Finally, Captain Lee is asked about Elizabeth and says that Francesca and Ashling had to carry extra weight because of Elizabeth. He understands that SHE thought she was doing a good job but she was not. Then we go back to dumbfuck Elizabeth. She says the birthday cake was sort of malicious. Rachel thinks it was fucked up. Rachel says she understands why Elizabeth was fired but she thinks with two charters left she should have just let her stay. Francesca says she was not celebrating Elizabeth’s departure. Are we really leaving this with no Captain Lee segment? Andy asks if Elizabeth has anything good to say about Francesca. He points out she didn’t say anything kind.
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Oh MAN! Josiah was going to come in to replace Elizabeth. Now that would have been AMAZING! Captain Lee says he would have been great. And there for some reason my DVR ends. Now I have to go chat with Captain Lee about those glasses. lol.
Yes, please delicately inform him that this member of the Lee Lovlies finds them unattractive (in a platonis way).
I felt like he was channeling Elton John (Is Elton John still alive?) lol. We will speak about it.
Dammit, “platonic.”
I thought Elizabeth’s outfit was the top of a figure skating costume. If she stood up at the end I figured we’d see a little taffeta tutu and off she’d skate.
What bothered me was Elizabeth saying she was bullied. There was no bullying on the interior crew. Unless you consider someone telling you to do your job bullying.
Was disappointed so much time was spent on Elizabeth. We didn’t get to hear captain Lee talk about Delores, how the season ended, his accident, or hardly anything else.
Btw, TT, I believe Rob has a degree in geology. So he could be working for someone in a gold mining operation. That’s what I surmise, at least.
I think Rachel got off pretty easy. She completely blew the whole cake thing waaaay out of proportion. It was funny, the fact that the cake showed up and oops no Elizabeth! What were they supposed to do? She didn’t die! Eat that sucker and call it a day.
I totally agree with all of this. I didn’t know about Rob and the geology thing. But most of these people have other jobs. I think he just didn’t want to be held accountable. Also this was the worst reunion I have ever seen Andy do. Also why did Captain Lee have to waste an hour of his life on this? He was the least mentioned person on Andy’s ratchet little show.
It was probably longer than an hour. Wasn’t the reunion filmed earlier and then was edited?
I looked at Rob’s Instagram page. He is a big traveler. He has been to a lot of interesting places. He doesn’t connect well with people. He even posted how much he is isolated from everyone and he is ok with that.
I wondered if Rob being so rude to Izzy was an attempt on his part to “fit in” better with James. He really didn’t seem like that kind of guy, I was surprised when he started acting that way. If his social IQ is low he could see bad mouthing someone as a way of cementing a relationship.
Or, he could just be a dick.
Or he could have serious issues from his older brother packing him in a suitcase and leaving him at the park.
Good point.
Wut?!?
We really need a laugh emoji on this site like on FB because that deserved it.
His full time job is being a geologist. Working on yachts was a side gig for Rob.
I agree with you Lucinda. I told my husband Elizabeth looked like she should be doing an ice skating routine. I sometimes feel sorry for people who are as clueless as Elizabeth but she’s just such a bitch. I don’t understand why she thought she needed pats on the back AND WHAT THE HELL FOR???? She was horrible, and I cannot stand people who throw bullying around like she did. No bitch you were not bullied, you sucked at your damn job!
I agree w/TT that Francesca looked amazing. I wanted to hear more from Capt Lee. As usual, I thought Ass Andy sucked at his job on this reunion. He kept giving Elizabeth time to speak and refute.
Yeah- what the heck is this with Andy and Elizabeth? Why does he favor her so much I wonder?
I’m so bummed that we didn’t get to see Josiah, Francesca and Ashling (sp?) work together. I think they would have excelled and had fun. And I think Josiah would also be a good foil for both Rachel acting over the top and for the misogynistic male deckhands. Sigh.
Agreed. Josiah could have fixed everything.
I love Captain Lee.
I don’t believe Elizabeth was bullied. I would be MORTIFIED if I were her. She really made herself look so silly with James. She just did not want to work. I loved Francesca and Ashling. A lot of people seemed to dislike Francesca just based on how Kate was as a chief stew. I liked Kate, but I don’t think Francesca is bad. I would have liked to see the final two charters with Josiah!
I really enjoyed this season! I loved Rachel’s food. I have always hated it when the guests do not enjoy the food because that is always my favorite part of vacation.
If you love Captain Lee you should all buy his book, Running Against the Tide. It’s real Captain Lee.
I second Tamara’s recommendation that you read Capt. Lee’s book. I am thankful I finished it before his son Josh died. It would have been difficult to finish if he had died during. Not that it took long to read. It kept my interest and it’s a perfect beach read or cocoon read.
I was actually yelling at Elizabeth while watching. What a cry-baby, pity-party-loving, feel-sorry-for-me, I’m-pretty-that’s-why-you-were-hard-on-me, I need to be uplifted, you bullied me by requesting I do the job PROPERLY that I was HIRED to do. And this is sad state of affairs if all the millennials actually think that you have to work because HARK, that’s why it’s called work. Shane (male version of Elizabeth), overly-sensitive, spoiled, participation trophy type. Grow a pair, man up. You were horrible at your job and you are going to “run away” if you are told the truth. Why are these two idiots incapable of taking criticism? I blame the parents. James is too man-scapey for my liking.. too effeminate and not in a good way. Love Eddie, Love Izzy, don’t care for Rachel (the whole ANTM was enough for me….), Fransesca wasn’t Kate but she was OK and of course, LOVE Captain Lee. TT, with you on not enough Captain Lee time. Andy’s intimated by him I would imagine…
The only thing about Izzy was she fed into Elizabeth’s delusional world, talking smack about Francesca behind her back. I never saw Ces say or do anything bad to Izzy. Just the opposite: Izzy was hired to do a job and she ditched it.
You’re right! I forgot how sneaky Izzy was!
Izzy has admitted she had a crush on Elizabeth which probably was why she was in Liz’a corner so much. Chess never did a damn thing to Izzy.
Izzy actually made Elizabeth look great as stew. It wasn’t until a great stew came along which put the spotlight on her to show she was horrible.
Pretty lame reunion. Far too much Elizabeth in her Nancy Kerrigan Crest white strips looks-like-she-got-a-boob-job look. Girl just can’t accept she was lousy at her job. Bullied? Come on. Maybe the repetition of being told what to do & still not doing it felt like being bullied to her. She’s obviously never had a real job before. Loved when Lee said “Liz thought she did a good job when she really obviously didn’t.” I think after everyone else watched just how bad she really was, they understood Francesca’s POV more & were kinder to her. “You didn’t get to know me.” Please. Did Capt Lee hang with anyone besides Eddie? Andy sucked as he always does.
I totes agree. Why was so much time devoted to Elizabeth, who was dressed as Nancy Kerrigan (love that. I said the same thing while watching it). I thought everyone seemed sort of checked out and bored too. I don’t think Izzy ever smiled during the whole thing.
Anybody know if they’re going to film a season this year?
There is another season planned but there are some complications so we will have to wait and see. In the meantime we will be stuck with Captain Sandy. UGH.
We don’t have to be stuck with Sandy. Please don’t watch that will be the only way to get rid of her.
I have to watch so y’all don’t have to… 🙁
But first we have Captain Glenn! Anyone going to watch Sailing Yacht next week?
YAY! Is that next week!? Something to look forward to!
I won’t watch Below Deck Med. I can’t stand the Capt. or Bosum. I can’t even say their names, much less look at either of them.
Elizabeth is the quintessential spoiled child, likely raised with the parenting philosophy that they are the center of the universe and everything they do and say every waking moment deserves a “reward” of some kind. Having supervised more than a few younger people in recent years who came into the job with this attitude and the same expectations as Elizabeth, she really triggers me (one even asked me to arrange for massages at work to “relieve stress”- I’m not kidding, lol). And the NERVE to trash talk Captain Lee – shows was a brat she truly is.
From the beginning, I thought that Rob definitely had some issues with connecting, but there was also an arrogance with a little hint of superiority about him that made him unlikable. That trait seems to have played out in his treatment of Izzy towards the end.
Loved Izzy (except for her gossiping about Cess). Cess was a bit boring, but was the hardworking straight shooter- no B.S., which I liked. Rachel- I don’t know. Talented, but not appealing and really gross when drunk. I think she has major anger issues. And my heart breaks for Captain Lee, which makes what Elizabeth said about him being “checked out” even more reprehensible. What a little bitch.
Hi! Mostly lurker here. 🙂
Yesterday I binge-watched a bunch of Below Deck “unseen footage” episodes. Specifically, when James and Elizabeth went on their date. She revealed she’s full-on QAnon. She (attempted) to explain both lizard people and illuminati to James. She is the worst.
What the hell is QAnon really. I never googled it thoroughly when it was always being talked about. Now I have to. Lizard people? I’m off to google now….
During your search about QAnon, if you happen to find an article comparing the QAnon SCAM to virtual reality games, it’s excellent. I do not play any of those games (sometimes I am smart enough to avoid things that I know may feed my OCD) but the writer did a remarkable job of explaining his theories and educating non-gamers on the structures of the creating the particular type of games.
WTF? Now I need to see that episode. So crazy. the QANON shit really needed to be on the show!
HOLY SHIT!
I’m full on suprised she didn’t start spouting conspiracies against her then.
OK, so we all know these reality shows are edited … but even if the episodes didn’t show us everything about Elizabeth, we saw enough to see that she learned NOTHING from her mistakes — not listening, not focusing, not pulling her share of the workload. When she said (on an episode) that she DID learn from her mistakes, she was clueless, but I would hope she would see more clearly after watching herself. How did she not know how to iron? We’ve all learned that one of the main duties of third stew is ironing (Rocky’s “I’m ironing the captain’s shorts!” is still one of my favorite bits). Liz said early on “I hope this will be the season I don’t fall in love with someone on a boat.” I either call bullshit on her resume or else she hit marks for “yachting” and not working.
The WWHL episode had the entire reunion INCLUDING Capt. Lee’s final comments regarding Josiah “Si” and how he would have fixed EVERYTHING. “His anticipation of the guests’ needs was remarkable. And that’s what it takes.”
Now that Si is beyond the honeymoon stage of his relationship, I hope he will consider coming back for a season. If I didn’t adore Capt. Lee so much, I would be out! But with Si on the crew, that would go a long way to bringing some viewers back.
I think I know why Capt. Lee was really laughing, but he’s such a gentleman.
Elizabeth was asked to say something nice about Ces. She LITERALLY SAID that she thought they were really bonding when Ces said “I’m exhausted.” SHE WAS EXHAUSTED BECAUSE OF ELIZABETH. What a fucking idiot!
I actually hope they bring the “top of the departments” back. Eddie is delightful and I think Capt. Lee likes having someone he knows and trusts on a personal level (since Kate can’t be there – I saw Eddie as a little bit of a fill in in terms of that. I was glad to see him, esp. knowing this was Capt. Lee’s first time filming since his son passed AND first season without Kate.)
I think Francesca was really good and the bullying accusations were laughable. I think Ces actually has watched all of the versions of the show and was working REALLY HARD not to get the negative labels like all previous chief stews have, AND prove herself to Capt. Lee. He even said she had some shoes to fill!
I will say I absolutely liked the interactions between Rachel and Francesca at the reunion. Elizabeth was too busy nodding like Rachel was on her side… but Rachel was literally saying “Yeah, she deserved to be tired, but I probably would have stuck it out for 2 more charters” – Ces was “I get where you are coming from”
Ces apologized and saw why Rachel might have been upset at the birthday cake, but she was “I was tired, and CAKE.” and Rachel got it. There are the beginnings of them having a good relationship but with Rachel’s crazy? There would still be lots of drama.
Oh… Elizabeth saying Lee didn’t know what was going on. SHE HAD TO BE TOLD TO CLEAN THE KITCHEN BY LEE. Of COURSE he saw it. Kate has said he spots things when on charter, but let her handle it. Ces was off ship – he must have been SO ANNOYED that he had to say something.
Let’s boycott Sandy.
YES!
I’m in.
CANNOT do it.
Y’all! This Rob guy is living THE LIFE. His IG is gorgeous! https://www.instagram.com/r0b.phillips/ He is even better looking on IG. I think his shitty comments to Izzy were scripted. It just doesn’t seem to fit with what I saw here. Check him out! He’s living the dream life.
I knew you would feel this way about his IG. He reminds me of you. I want to travel with him! I love his dog, Falafel.
Where did “The stud of the sea” and Eddie film their reunion?
Is this really just going to be a 1 part reunion? It was extremely unsatisfying. I keep hoping there’s going to be a part 2 next week.
It felt like that was it. VERY disappointing.
This used to be one of my favorite shows but I think it’s become too over produced and there’s the same story lines over and over.. bitchy chief stew, slacking co worker, f-boy hook ups and the girls who fell for it, etc etc.
the only redeeming thing for me was watching Rachel make amazing food all the while while doing funny dance routines and get wasted and drive goody Eddy get his panties in a bunch.
Fucking finally someone gets it jjam thank god 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼 So sick of reading this negative judgmental bullshit until your comment when we can just remember the simple days of decently produced reality crap to fill our souls with joy and redemption like Rachel’s behavior and just simply appreciate it ! and acknowledge that we will never expose ourselves and or our friends and family in that way but we can definitely feel those feelings out vicariously through others. And enjoy their reactions to their experiences. However, if you are so bothered by it you have an issue in yourself about it and want to trash someone else harshly not just in their experience but apply it to your own too then maybe you need to deal with it in therapy or learn to enjoy it because it’s not about you. Let me clarify most people don’t care or are not affected so maybe look at yourself before you judge others. And everyone else sit the fuck down and enjoy your false reality entertainment. Lol the best entertainment.
Seriously? This is your first comment on the site and you chose to tell people to STFU and sit down? You better find the commenting rules and with a quickeness.