Tonight’s Below Deck Med Recap should be full of me saying “I told you so” to Katie. The final charter guests are “demanding” according to the program guide. And with Lloyd off the vote to go to the hospital, we are a man down on deck, and two stews down in the interior. Yes, two. It was ridiculous for production to think three stews could have ever handled this boat in the first place. I feel like they brought in stews off camera for the last cruise to do beds off camera and wash laundry. They really should do that again.
Here we go, Captain Sandy says that with Lloyd at the hospital the crew will be 3 deckhands and 3 interior. I guess that includes Matthew. Malia, the surprising voice of reason this season, points out how dumb it was to decide to let Delaney go. Well, indirectly at least. This crew was exhausted and sleep deprived last week when the guest could not have been easier. These guest have an anniversary party, 3 magic shows, a giant bouncy house, and a vision of Christ himself on their preference sheets. And that doesn’t include to meal requests.
Yachting While Black
We meet the guests and they start chanting YWB (yachting while black.) They seem lit already. Drinks are already spilling. They are living their best lives. All the guests have clothes to be steamed. Katie is already overwhelmed. The guests love their lunch but the fish is bland. I thoroughly believe this is a production script. There was way too much foreshadowing about the fish. Meanwhile, the Lloyd report is good it was a panic attack. Somehow, Sandy wants to let Lloyd get some rest and rejoin the boat tomorrow. Perhaps she learned how serious those are after her treatment of Hannah. I hate when people say “just a panic attack.” They can be terrifying.
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When the charter guests are not on script they are quite fun and funny. OMG the guests on the water toys are hilarious. I’ve always thought it odd that all the guests know how to use them all for the most part. These people need to stick to the slide. lol. They end up in the hot tub laughing about their failed outings. At least no one drowned. Meanwhile, Courtney is steaming and ironing essentially six or more suitcases of clothes. We are getting a lot of footage of that so I assume the script calls for “a problem.” These people all seem to nice to play the villain. I want to be on this cruise.
The Anniversary Dinner
All the guests dressed in head to toe white for the dinner party and look amazing. Better than any Real Housewives white parties that’s for sure. The guests love their dinner. In fact, it was the dinner they had at their wedding anniversary. The guest sort of apologize for the fact they plan to stay up late. Don’t apologize! You’re the guests! They stay up to the wee hours and Katie sends Courtney to bed. This is the time that you make the guests a pitcher of margaritas or something and call it the house specialty. Running trays of six or more drinks at time is a lot for one person.
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Zee goes to bed and facetimes with Lloyd to check on him. The guests go to bed at 4:15. Katie is in bed at 4:32. I don’t see how she will wake up in the morning. She is still saying that she made the right decision to go with two stews. She did not. But she did get up four hours later to start her morning. So, props to her for that. Everyone misses Lloyd and hope he will be up to doing something for the talent show. The weather is crap. Lloyd comes back to the boat feeling much better. Captain Sandy wanted to know what caused the panic attack. Lloyd says he just gets very anxious when the charter ends. She offers him her number and says he can call any time.
Rain, Rain Go Away!
It seems like the crew plans to rent an AirBnB house in Split together. That sounds fun if they are not all sick of each other. The guests pass on water sports for the day due to the bad weather. That means the interior needs to entertain them all day. They have some putt putt greens for them to play with. Actually they are practicing their drives hitting balls into the water with inner tubes as the holes.. Zee is a great golfer. His mom used to be a professional golfer and he’s been playing since he was seven. Then they move on to poker and they all have huge stacks of cash. They are having a blast, rain or shine.
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Next up, it’s time for the talent show. Zee plays with his balls. Golf balls that is. He’s quite good. Malia sort of walks on her hands. David impressed the audience with some stupid human trick involving his legs that I rewound three times and still didn’t get. But he got 10s from the judges. Katie and Coco do a silly rap. The guests love that too. Go figure. I told you these were fun people.
Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner?
Did you guess Captain Sandy? So, of course, Chef Mat is nervous. The first course went well. Then Katie spills a drink on the dinner table. Courtney hit her head. Two of the women have a problem with the entrée because their spinach tastes like beets and they don’t like beets. Apparently, it was in fact beet tops and not spinach. It seems to have been lost in translation. Captain Sandy liked her meal and that is all Chef Mat cares about. Tomorrow is a dreaded beach picnic. Lloyd comes back to the boat feeling much better.
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But the night is not over yet. The guests want lots more drinks. They asked for warm cookies they did not get. Everyone is worn out. Katie finally realizes she fucked up by not keeping Delaney. The next morning the guests are shockingly up early. And they each have a bizarro egg dish order. I don’t understand why the chefs allow this. Some do not. Eggs are one of the hardest things to cook perfectly. People lose on the cooking shows over eggs all the time. However, Mat is so stressed he can barely crack an egg. Allegedly. Mat royally screws up breakfast and freaks out.
Next week is the finale! And it looks like everything than could possibly go wrong does. And the quarantined chef shows up on the boat.
now we see for a fact that Sandy only cares about herself. She was mad at the dark fish even though the guests loved it and thrilled with the chicken even though two guests hated it.
They are a fun group of guests but they’re really keeping the crew hopping.
I kept looking at one of the charter guests on Ep16, and I knew I recognized her. I finally searched Oprah Winfrey’s TV series acting career and found the show this woman was in with Oprah. She’s Deborah Jo Winens!! She played the part of one of the Reverend’s daughters. She’s so good and is an amazing singer. Now I know she’s a friend of Jemere and Ian Hill, the charter principles.
Deb is a member of the famous Winans Family…BeBe & Cee Cee; The Winans Brothers and the 3rd generation, Juan & Lisa Winans. FABULOUS family of great gospel musicians.
Sandy should have said “We are NOT doing a charter with just 2 stews.” I mean, who does that?
Production that’s who plus I agree there must be something happening off camera we don’t see like extra helpers?
I’m over this season, too long. Please lord make it stop!
How in the world does Manbaby Mat get thru life when even the smallest bit of criticism sends him spiraling like an Easter ham? Were his parents the kind that praised him for every little poop he made or something? The fragility of his ego is astounding. His total lack of seeing Katie being run ragged and his constant need for reassurance was so annoying.
About Katie, even before the Lexi/Delaney debacle, NO ONE can say this gal doesn’t work her ass off. She is the hardest working Chief Stew of the franchise and, yes, I include Kate in this. I would still list Queen Kate at the top of the chief stew list. But Katie is a close 2nd followed by Daisy, Francesca, Bugsy, Hannah, Jenna with the awful Adrianne bringing up the rear.
Spiraling like an Easter ham….LOLLL That’s a new one, I have to use that.
I so agree, when you are that toasted, a pitcher full of “I just made you the fill-in-the-blank Special Drink!!!” would go a Long way. And drunk people just want warm cookies, like slice and bake or something. Yeah, being a man down really dumb. But I Love this crew! They are here to party!! I got suckered into watching this as I left my tv on Bravo station-
Eggs are the Hardest thing to make, absolutely. Dude needs a valium or something. I miss Captain Lee and Kate and Ben!! I know Captain Lee is coming back, I will await with baited breath. Thanks for the recap.
I’ve been saying since the beginning that the chef should always have a supply of HOUSEMADE brownie mix, cookie dough, frozen pizza, etc. for the stews to pop in the oven for those late-night munchie guests. Also some sweet and spicy nuts and other HOUSEMADE snacks.
Breakfast is either the easiest or hardest meal to make. Notice that most good restaurants either serve breakfast and lunch or lunch and dinner (and brunch BUFFETS, not cooked to order). The key to breakfast is ORGANIZATION because everything cooks quickly. Low-rent uses a large flat top (and uses oil, not butter, for eggs and those fake flat omelettes) and fancy uses SEASONED egg pans. Mat was using difficult pans. I can rock and flip 4-6 omelettes, but flipping eggs in an egg pan … nope. I cheat … BASTE the eggs. They are less greasy too.
It definitely feels like production is trying to make Matthew have a meltdown for the final charter. He does have a lot of anxiety and self doubt about his food so it doesn’t take much.
I think they are able to make it with two stews. Katie knew she would get the extra help off camera. There was only a week to go. Lexi would have been a conflict with Matt & Delaney couldn’t do much by herself. Why not just ease the tension on the boat & fire them both.
I don’t understand why they are bringing the quarantined chef on the boat. Is there going to be a reunion?
I hope to see Llyod back next season. Hard worker & such a nice person to everyone on board. I love Katie & Coco too !
Lloyd went back to work on the Lady Michelle after the group spent a week together in Split!
I wish we could have this ENTIRE CREW BACK with a good third stew and Capt. Lee!
sure enough, on WWHL Andy asked Sandy about what she thought of Lexi now that she saw it on the show, and she said of course that had she known, she never would have let Lexi stay, blah blah. Sandy is the worst, I cant wait for Captain Lee again
What Yawn says is true!
OF COURSE she didn’t know what happened — because she never gave Katie and Malia the opportunity to give her the facts before launching into her Ted Talk on management style. “Give Lexi a chance or you are the failure.”
Delaney could have been doing the laundry, the steaming/ironing of clothes, washing dishes. All those take minimal training and would have eased the burden on others.
Exactly, the deckhands getting stuck with extra work are not trained stews either. Anyone can run the laundry room and help with dishes.
I bet they were happy with that tip split though!
It’s like an extra $100 per person. def not worth all the extra hours of work and stress. Bad call all around to not take the extra hands. And when your job is to provide superior service to the gusts, being down a person is even dumber. Probably would have had a higher tip of guests had not had to wait forever for every little thing and search the boat for someone to ask. Just the hours they have to staff someone it doesn’t make sense to have only 2.
And can we talk about the borderline racist talent show? I was waiting for the guests to throw Katie and her stupid “rap voice” over the ledge. I know there was a palpable tension. In the air during that performance….
“And can we talk about the borderline racist talent show?” No. No, we cannot. The guests loved it. And this crew admitted they had no talents for the talent show. WTF were they supposed to do? An anchor hoisting competition? Not everyone can sing. But everyone can rap, albeit badly, and they acknowledged it was comedy.
That thing David did jumping through his leg loop. When I was young, I was able to do it TWICE. Out of 45million tries. And falls. More falls than Vicki Gunvalson.