Apologies in advance for the delay in this Below Deck Med recap. There is a two hour Hell’s Kitchen tonight and a two hour episode of Bachelor in Paradise. Both are my guilty pleasures that I don’t have to recap. So, I will be doing my recap later tonight on the 11 pm showing or possibly tomorrow morning. I’m already struggling to stay awake. But sometimes I rally later on at night and am up late. Lather, rinse, repeat. Alright, I’m ready to go finally. Lots of weirdness happening at the shack. But, we’re all good over here.
Red On Deck!
Last week’s Below Deck Med recap must have been an absolute mess. I was distracted by Banjo and totally missed the whole fat stripper suit scene. I remember wondering why Nanette sent me that photo since I never saw the scene. I’ll probably just drop in here this week somewhere for fun. Yeah, I probably should have watched last week’s episode again before recapping this episode. Because, I don’t remember half of this stuff. I just looked up what red on deck means. I still don’t get it. Apparently, it just means the left side of the bow. Anyway, the weather is horrible.
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Wait, AFTER they all have to change cabins due to some imaginary rule that males and females can’t share a cabin, Katie wants to send the new stew home? And suddenly, this is Katie’s decision even though she wasn’t allowed to send Lexi home even though she sucks as a person? The girl has never been a stew before. How about teaching her something! The deckhands LOVE the new girl, Deloni. She’s quite the THOT on Instagram. The guests all have very different picky food preferences, but they all seem satisfied with Mat’s cuisine. He is really quite good at his job.
Fire In The Hole?
Katie asks the deckhands to put on firemen suits and do a little striptease for the ladies. They loved it even though David was not particularly arousing. Zee seemed to really get into it. He did a full on lap dance. Then the deckhands challenge the guests to a game of beer pong. They are all totally shitfaced before the beer pong game even starts. The women are all over the deckhands and loudly announcing who swallows and who doesn’t. Because, classy. Malia goes up to rescue her deckhands before they are sexually assaulted.
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Mat is pissed that he has to sleep in a musty cabin with Marten. Malia should have just gone down and bunked with her boatmance, Jake the engineer. I’d don’t think we have ever seen Malia on any season where she wasn’t fucking someone on the boat. She managed to do all of that off camera this season. Mat is also basically cooking one handed. His hand is very badly burnt. And one of the guests wanted her own individual entrée but had to take her piece of fish off a family style plate. THE HORROR. It’s not like they aren’t all demanding different dietary restrictions. Otherwise, they would all get the same entrée! People find the dumbest things to bitch about.
Say My Name, Say My Name!
Lexi is actually being nice to Deloni and teaching her how to do laundry and beds. Courtney complains about Deloni who is basically doing half of Lexi’s work. Why does she care? At least SOMEONE is doing Lexi’s work! I literally thought I had Delaney’s name wrong, so I went back and changed it above. Now, I realize that the other stews are calling her by the wrong name. She even answers them with her real name on the walkie talkie. I’m having a good day. The sun is shining. I have a glass of wine. But for some reason this episode is really irritating me and the recap is taking forever!
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The sun is also shining on the boat! So they can finally use the slide and the water toys. Yes. Get the off the boat. Lloyd has made massive improvements to the slide. But something is wrong with one of the jet skis. David didn’t properly tighten the plugs. Malia tries to cover for her crew and Sandy gets pissed off. They have been perfect all season. Sandy needs to chill her jets. Now they want a beach picnic. The people never seem to understand that the beaches don’t have sand in that part of the world unless they are staying at a resort that brings it in. So basically they are going to sit on rocks.
A White Party For The Amish People?
Never in the history of the show has the crew worn white for the charter guests “white parties.” The deck crew is wearing their whites. But the interior crew is cutting up some ugly white dresses to wear. I don’t see the need for this. They could and should just wear their whites as well. Delaney continues to do Lexi’s job for her with a smile on her face. And Katie still wants to ditch her. It’s raining on the white party and the deck crew gets soaked. One of the bitchy guests who didn’t her special entrée says the charter has been a four out of ten for her. I hate people like this.
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Mat really doesn’t want Delaney to stay. He wants his room back, and she’s another person splitting the tip. What they should do is fire Lexi who just eats chips out of her bra while watching Delaney do her job. That’s who doesn’t deserve a tip. I literally forgot Courtney was on the show. She’s barely been on this episode at all. And it looks like Katie is going to bite the bullet and send Delaney home. I hate these people.
It looks like in the coming attractions that Delaney is with the crew on their day off, so I don’t think she gets fired. Please send Lexi home … but they won’t with only two more charters left
Yes, Lexi is the one who needs to be sent home, not Delaney. I don’t blame Courtney and Mat for being upset at making less money because it takes two people to do Lexi’s job. It’s not just a matter of getting the work done, it’s also that their own tips are reduced.
Katie keeps going to Sandy for guidance, but Sandy just keeps telling Katie it’s on her. Katie is in a lousy position–the replacement “stew” they provided her is completely green, even though she’s hardworking and willing to learn. Delaney is not sufficient because she’s new, and Lexi is not sufficient because she’s lazy–but if Katie keeps both of them, it will make a ton of work for everyone to have to switch cabins, plus they won’t like the new arrangements. It’s totally unfair that all that is on Katie.
Lexi is so dense that she keeps saying “Deloni” when Delaney answers “Delaney.”
Katie wanted to fire Lexi a long time ago but Sandy wouldn’t let her. This is all on Sandy. She should have fired Lexi and then brought Delaney on board.
I agree that Lexi needs to go. Standing around while Delaney does her job. How about Lexi getting 1\2 of her tip. When they showed what’s coming up next week ,again Lexi unruly behavior comes out. She’s toxic and needs to go. Sandy telling Katie to try with Lexi ,then I’m sure it will be put on Katie’s shoulders after. Sandy wants her crew to go to her but then blames crew members when it all blows up. Sandy was a horrible stew and she is a horrible captain.
I don’t think I like some of these charter guests. Sandy getting snippy with Malia because she was protecting her crew was pathetic. I don’t know how anyone has any loyalty to Sandy. What she’s putting Katie through this season is sad.
Regarding Sandy, with Katie she’s always saying platitudes, as in get her to work better, you can do it. You’re in charge.
It was obvious someone messed up with not putting the plugs in. Malia had to make me like her more by taking care of it, and protecting the deck crew, and then Sandy comes in the opposite of how she treats the interior.
I think I’d rather not be on her yacht.
In unrelated news, I smell like onions because I had onion rings.
Maybe production & Sandy are both using this mind boggling story line of Lexi versus Delaney. Your onion breath is making me drool! Thanks 👍 TT Thank you & Hugs !
I couldn’t agree more! What Sandy is doing to Katie is really sad. I don’t understand why Sandy doesn’t allow her chief stews to fire people that work under them — especially when they want to fire them for justifiable reasons. Last season, she wouldn’t let Hannah fire that really insubordinate, rude stew (Lara, maybe?) and this year she wouldn’t allow Katie to fire Lexi. Thankfully Lara quit so she didn’t become a bigger problem, but keeping Lexi has proven to be bad for the boat. Sandy has to quit telling Katie that everything is her decision if she keeps tying her hands and not following through on what Katie decides (i.e., to fire Lexi after her drunken misbehavior)
I can’t like your recap enough. I’ve also been watching an episode ahead so I have to be careful to not say too much.
The one I watched last night was “Don’t go chasing waterfalls.”
I thought Malia handled the plug issue well. She put Sandy off until she had the answers and then when she did, she admitted the truth to Sandy. I’ve always been impressed with her management skills.
Funny enough, as TERRIBLE as Lexi is, she’s kind of good at teaching Delaney the job. (Even though she can’t get her name right and I loved that the deck crew picked up on that.) Lexi just wants to be in charge. She can’t stand that anyone is in a position over her.
I wish this would be Sandy’s last season.
Malia got a high five in my book for protecting her crew. Sandy has a God complex and thinks she has to control everything. She has department heads for a reason so that they can handle stuff. It was resolved and done. She didn’t need to be involved. I have noticed that Sandy has not had anywhere near as much camera time as she did in the past. This is an early Christmas present for us all.
The less Sandy, the better. I agree with you about Malia. .My opinion of her went way up.She is a good bosun and the deck crew reflects that. I don’t think Sandy understands how to delegate.
Early Christmas present. 😀
I wonder why Matt have the audacity to complain about being inconvenienced. His actions of quitting twice. He needs humility. He got paid with the crew
When he left them stranded for a part of a charter. Lexi messy. Katie wishy washy. Love Mahalia yet they talk about how challenging it is for women to get Accepted in leadership roles. Yet she (I believe) have some boundaries with crew especially on nights out
Whoever hires these people is doing a TERRIBLE job! Try applying at Walmart — the HR for Walmart does a better job than whoever does it for Below Deck. Skills on the CV need to be checked out.
Fuck “good TV,” when you are a deckhand at sea, you have to be prepared to act quickly in safety situations. For stews, someone who worked at a Denny’s would be better prepared than the stews they hire. A server at a restaurant learns that communication with your kitchen staff — whether it be a Michelin-star chef or a prep cook — is vital to service. The servers should know EVERYTHING about the food they are serving. They are not serving 50 tables and 50 menu items. The people who charter these yachts are VERY into the food and the stews owe it to their chef and guests to educate themselves about what they are serving. At least Delaney is willing to LEARN, unlike Lexi, who knows it all.
About Yawn: As much as I couldn’t stand Joao when he came back and Yawn kissed his ass, sobriety seems to have opened his eyes about Yawn’s thirsty agenda and how everything she was doing was trying to make HERSELF look good. Bwahahahaha!
I see why TT loves you.
I know I feel I need to clarify. I loved everything you wrote.
Malia gets all the boys !!!
I detailed the room situation on last weeks post. The short and simple is the the boat owners denied Delaney sharing with Matt because of insurance reasons. I am not sure whether it is really the boat owner or production. The reason Katie wants to fire Delaney is because everyone is bitching to her about the room changes (They have one week left, just suck it up!). On BD the chief stew is in charge go cabin assignments so it is her responsibility. And her name really is Delaney but Lexi calls her Deloni for whatever reason. Lexi knows she has a bit of power over Delaney and is taking advantage. Lexi is really unlikeable
I don’t believe this has anything to do with insurance. We have had girls and guys sharing cabins many times on Below Deck.
#unemployable
Stop reading if you don’t want to be spoiled, but this isn’t too spoilerish.
Apparently the cabin beds have different sized sheets, so they’d all have to wash their sheets to change cabins. That got me thinking about how often they wash the sheets and thought ewww.
Interesting point on the sizes. Kate Chastain never used to have time to wash her hair, so I’m thinking that’s even less time for washing sheets. But she also never got enough sleep, so in a 6 week season, maybe that’s like 3 normal weeks? Much better than a college student….put em on at the beginning of the year, take em off at the end. 😂
My dorm had several washing machines on each floor, so you signed up for a time. I still managed to wash sheets at least every two weeks.With all of the guest’s beds I’m sure it’s not a priority though.
I prefer Captain Lee’s management style. He allows his Dept Heads control over their team and doesn’t get bogged down in minutiae. Mat was SUPER ANNOYING while bitching about Delaney the entire charter. Nothing was going to change while on charter so chill dude.