First, thanks to everyone for the love and attention (which clearly I shamelessly asked for) in my poor pitiful me post. Most of you have been very kind. It’s great to have a tribe. I’m super excited about this Below Deck Down Under Recap. The problem is that Spectrum lists them as reruns since the show aired on Peacock first. It took me a minute to figure out when the “new” episode was. The other problem is that so many of my readers have some sort of allergy to shows set in other countries. We learned this with Ladies of London. That was a great show that we lost. Dubai is not pulling ratings either. We have the everso hot Captain Jason now, and crickets.
I get that some people have already seen the whole season, but even they are commenting (without spoiling anything). But, this recap is for the few of us who know a good show when we see one and realize there are actually other countries in the world. Also Bravo gives us NO PHOTOS.
Good GRIEF! I am watching AGT while waiting for this show and crying over every act. WTF is wrong with me? (Don’t answer that). Snap out of it Tamara! Oh God, now it is a Ukrainian woman who is performing for her father who is fighting on the front line. I can’t. stop. CRYING. My mama would bitch slap me into next week for this stupidity. Finally, it is time for the “new” episode. We start with Jaime trying to get Benny and his reluctance to work under control. Benny guesses that Jaime used to be a cop. He’s right. But who cares? Just do your damn job or get fired, Benny! Captain Jason picked up the whole tab for the night out in absentia. Hot and generous. I need to move to Australia whenever I get off this couch of shame!
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Back on the boat it is a night of hot tubbing. I keep zoning out because I still don’t know who is who quite yet. I miss being young and hot. It’s true youth is wasted on the young. Suddenly, the guys are all pissed because almost all the girls have boyfriends. Um, that sounds like a guy problem. Actually apparently two of the girls are single. Just not the ones that the douchebag was trying to get with. I think it might have been Jaime. Yes, it was Jaime.
Captain Jason Is NOT HAPPY
The boat is a disaster the next morning and Captain Jason is cleaning things up himself. He’s PISSED. He sets off a “general alarm.” He reams everyone out. At the preference sheet meeting he tells them that if they make a mess of the boat they have to clean it up BEFORE going to bed. But, this never happens on any franchise. IJS. The guests are erotic dancers and one couple wants to renew their vows. They all seem to work in the adult entertainment world. They want a pirate themed party. Um, WHY? They like Vietnamese food. What even is that?
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I feel like I must have confused Ryan with the chef from Below Deck Med. It’s this one who is the asshole. Apologies. As Rush Limbaugh (I know, I know I listen to talk radio in the car. I just want to hear someone talk, sometimes I listen to NPR instead. Depending on my blood pressure. 🙂 Plus, I like to know what the other side could possibly be saying. I don’t think he is even on anymore. He may have died for all I know. Anyway, my point is and I am kind of remember it, “I am doing this recap with half my brain tied behind my back.” Or I am using whatever brain cells I have left to do it. Apologies. Moving on.
I CANNOT BELIEVE THE SCANDALOUSLY HIGH BRAVO CON TICKETS FOR ALL THREE DAYS SOLD OUT IN HOURS. WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE? YOU COULD FLY TO PARIS FOR THAT!
The Strippers… I Mean Guests Arrive It’s Like Trying To Herd Really Horny CATS!
There seems to be a big crew on this show. I hope we get to see Daz nekkid. He’s HOT. They are all literally humping everything on the boat. It’s kind of hysterical. Brittini is really stepping up as a deckhand. She is over Benny and his whining. So, is Captain Jason who is fucking with him. Benny is such a whiner. And after all my recent whining I know a whiner when I see one. 🙂 Also, Captain Jason is a bit of a micromanager. He should probably step back and let Jaime lead the deck crew. He’s giving me Captain Yawn vibes at this point.
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Next, Captain Jason wants to give some of the stews a chance to go out on the water with the guests. That’s a new thing! There are so many sharks out there these days (CLIMATE CHANGE IS A REAL THING) I can barely enjoy the scuba diving scenes. Culver gets a phone call from home. Then, Captain Jason tells the stews who got to go to wrap a towel around their asses that are hanging out in their bathing suits. LOL. He is also washing down the board they used. Shouldn’t he be minding the ship?
It’s Dinner Time
One of the guests is hitting on Ryan hard. Why? He’s making pizza for dinner? That not Vietnamese. Jamie is over Benny and his insubordination. He is more concerned about his hair than answering his walkie. It seems that Ryan is also making Singapore street noodles. Um still not Vietnamese? Meanwhile, I feel like Captain Jason is Captain Yawn on steroids when it comes to micromanaging. Chef Ryan doesn’t seem to understand he needs to communicate with the chief stew.
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The renewal of the vows was lovely. Benny continue to whine. I mean I am not one to judge but he is whining about being a deckhand on a TV show. COME ON, DUDE. Everything went great. UNTIL… Something happens with the … Toilets? I dunno but there is water everywhere. Tamara and Vicki are on WWHL if it taped I will recap it tomorrow. It’s been kind of long day over here
I love this show! The captain and bosun are both hot & interesting. I always enjoy watching people who are good at their job. Aesha’s doing a good job too. Other than whiny Benny and Ryan being a bit full of himself, the whole crew seems willing to work and it seems like they gel. I love getting to see the coral reefs too.
Benny is so thin-skinned. I hope he does quit because it’s painful to see. No sense of humor whatsoever.
Yes, Rush Limbaugh is dead!
I also sometimes listen to conservative talk radio while in the car. None of their arguments are ever valid. One of my favorite courses in college was Intro to Logic. I think anyone who ever wants to speak in public should be required to make a 100% in that college level course.
Anywhoo, I like this series but I am mainly watching for the captain.
I love this show and I wasn’t sure I was going to. Benny is useless. Chef Ryan acts like he’s the chef at a resort in the Poconos instead of a luxury yacht. He doesn’t get to tell the guests when they’re going to eat. I can’t remember the Polish stew’s name, but she is LAZY!
Magda. She’s a model, did you know ?? And the freaking phone!! I’d be tossing it overboard if I was Aesha. And it was because of her that the toilet backed up in the first place. She will not take direction. Can’t abide her!
Ryan suuuuuuucks. He may be the worst chef ever on a Below Deck show. Other than that Russian girl from a few seasons ago.
Benny is such a whiner. It is a case of a no good, very bad day. Pushed over the edge by sewage spilling out of his toilet and into his quarters. Yup. Gross!
I loved this season. So glad you are recapping & I promise no spoilers. I love Capt. JASON a hands on pitch in & help attitude which I finf extremley appealing as well as empowering the crew by showing no job is to beneath him to do. Aaesha is the stew across all franchises that could ever truly replace Kate. Not as snarky or abrasive but so sweet & hatd working & funny. Ryan the chef is a twat waffle of epic proportions. Benny is being talked down to hollered at & treated disgracefully so I can empathise with his lackluster performance. Brittany & the hot guy with the body smile personality is EVERYTHING & a bag of chips. Lawd have mercy ! Great stews great deck crew all around great season
“Twat Waffle” might be the best thing I’ve heard in a long time. Thanks so much for the badly needed laugh!
We have Vietnamese restaurants everywhere in Australia. During the 70’s, there was a huge wave of migration here from Vietnam , lucky for us because we get this wonderful cuisine (often alongside ‘Chinese’ food). Lots of rice paper rolls, Pho and right now, bubble tea is really popular, so much so you can buy it in supermarkets. Another fun fact, a LOT of our bakeries are Viet run due to their unhappy French colonial history. You really should come over. My favourite place to go is a Viet enclave here in Brisbane where there’s all sorts of fresh food, butchers and restaurants around a courtyard where older Vietnamese men sit around smoking and playing cards and Mah Jong and gambling, and enormous piles of sugar cane mound up beside these little stalls where they press the cane for juice. On hot days, I just love going here and trying the refreshing tart/sweet drinks they sell which they press a plastic lid on for you, so you can literally buy one to drink and pop one in your purse for later!
You don’t have much Vietnamese cuisine over there? How curious!
As for BDDU, as an Aussie, I can pick boofheads like – sorry! Unpopular opinion – Captain Jason and safety obsessed bosun Jamie from 100 feet. They’re really not all that. I hate the way they treat their underlings, even Benny. Benny is definitely a very special snowflake, but that management style of shaming and humiliating the inferiors is very common in this country where we have a HUGE problem with toxic masculinity. Jason is okay. But the whole sparkly helmet thing immediately outed him as ‘one of THOSE guys’. Jamie? Yeesh. I suspect he didn’t last as a cop. My son is a police officer. Jamie has some knid of issue/s and I’d be willing to bet he was bounced out of the police here.
Isn’t Magda grating everyone’s last nerve??!! I love Aisha. Aussies tend to rag Kiwis for their accent, but I love the way she speaks and she’s such a sweetheart. Chef Ryan?! LDE, if you get my meaning! Plus a steaming serve of short man syndrome. He can’t freaking cook!!
Love that you’re recapping this. I live in Queensland where this is filmed and have been to many of these locations. My advice is come here in June, our winter, so you can actually swim and see the Barrier Reef before it disappears forever. It is sensational. Why would you come here in winter? Because it is unbearably brutally humid and hot in the other seasons and in Summer, you cannot swim without risking box jellyfish and irukanji- not only can the sting alone kill you, it is accompanied by a weird neurological syndrome – Google it. Symptoms like ‘feelings of imminent demise’ linger for up to a year!
I’m always side eyeing the crew when they have their nights out, because the entertainment and restaurants up there are pretty subpar for this franchise, too.
Again, thanks for recapping and proselytising for this beautiful part of the planet. You need to come over when you’re feeling up to it. I’d be your tour guide in a jiffy!
I live in Fort Lauderdale Florida and we have Vietnamese. Not alot but you can find it. It’s delicious! Atlanta, get with the Vietnamese you will not be sorry. I saw this show on peacock too, it was so much better than Captain Glen’s season. I like Captain Jason’s hands on approach he was part of the team IMO but I did get sick of that disco ball helmet and wish he would Invisalign that bottom bite. And Jamie just doesn’t seem to have handle on things. Thanks for all the Australian inside scoop, very enlightening.
Thankyou! Your part of the world is probably very similar to mine, and where BDDU is being filmed: very hot and humid in Summer! I’m happy to see some of the commenters below are also clocked onto CPT Jason’s humiliation style of management and have rightly identified it as bullying. Jamie the bosun is the result of years of this type of work environment, he’s a head case. Sadly, it’s just so common in this country and we have a lot of men (and women) with problematic behaviour and issues as a result. And as far as teeth go? We lean towards our colonial past (Britain) and a lot of us get around with the same fangs we were born with! A lot of yellow, beige, brown and ‘watermelon through a picket fence’ situations!
I’m seeing the captain as being a real d*ck. He reeks of toxic masculinity, especially in the way he humiliates the crew. He identifies the one he perceives as being the weakest, and then starts the passive aggressive bullying. First it was the disco ball helmet, then in this episode he deliberately steers the boat to soak the deck hand. His story about now being single just sent red flags up all over the place.
He’s pretty rigid about wanting the boat kept clean, which isn’t a bad thing. But then he starts micromanaging. I imagine Bravo will edit out some of his d*ck moves just to keep him looking like a good guy.
I’m so glad I’m not the only one icked out by CPT Adorable. He’s a dick. He’s also common as mud in this country. That ‘harden the fck up’ management style is everywhere here to the detriment of many young men (and women).
Oh please. Not sure why you hate him so much, If anything he is to slack with the crew. And he is doing everything from washing dishes to wiping things down outside. My only problem with him is he needs to micromanage LESS. Stop doing everyone else’s Job.
I went to comment on your earlier post and it was gone. I as just going to tell you to hang in there and f you need anything that I can have delivered please let me know
Capt. Jason is a control freak and he isn’t supporting Jaime. The helmet seems like bullying to me, but maybe it can be a bonding thing. We’ll see when the helmet goes to someone who is Not Amused. Aesha is the best! She is my favorite, ranking just under Kate. Ryan is the tooliest of tools. I hope he gets his smug, lazy, aggressive ass fired. I miss Marco!
Captain Jason = Erotic Dreams for sure.
Me too ! Capt Lee is stud of the sea we need to think up a sexy nickname for Capt. Jason !
Love this show! I hope Jason and Alesha are the new Lee and Kate.
You got the long COVID? Sounds like it. I feel you lady. This year has been one thing after another. I guess the past few years have been that way. Always here: wake up, pee, Pokémon, and TT.
Love love love this franchise. Benny IS a whining little boy. Captain is hot as hell but I think he’s cleaning and helping to get a handle on his crew. See who does what, is good at what, etc. under the guise of helping out… Why don’t people know Vietnamese food? It’s delicious, healthy, not salty, no heavy sauces (unless you count the coconut in the curries heavy) and it’s filling. It’s my go to always food. Plus, I am convinced beef Pho cures anything. Ryan needs his ass kicked… by anybody. Any takers? TT, in regards to yesterdays post about your… sometimes you can’t afford not to do something, like go to ER or Dr. You get one life. Meanwhile, you couldn’t pay me enough to go to Bravocon. Wait? Bravo-Con? As in all the con-artists and criminals they have on that channel??
Actually, there is a very good Asian restaurant very close to me house that people come to from all over. It’s not just one kind of Asian food, and I believe there are three kinds. Then menu is pages and pages long. I’ve had Pho there, so maybe one of the that Three Kinds of Asian is Vietnamese. It’s basically a hole in the wall that is actually nice inside.Everything comes with tons of raw greens of some sort that are quite tasty even with nothing on them. Anything you order you will be eating for days. And it’s cheap! Cheap-ISH.
Exactly!! The greens have some sort of different flavor. I’ve made Lemongrass Tofu and Vermicelli (another favorite) but use chicken or beef instead of tofu sometimes. The greens have flavor from just sitting next to aromatic spices I think. All I know is Vietnamese food is incredible and usually the places are very small too. It’s 6:14 a.m. and i am thinking of Pho already…..
I got take out from that place once and I at it for a week.
I completely missed this because I was catching up on Ultimate Girls Trip at the Bezerkshires. It is So Good!!! They completely break through the fourth wall and strangely Phaedra is the voice of reason! I know. But it really is good if you want to recap it.
Hope you are feeling better. xonancy
I watched a bit of the first episode last night and have to finish! I didn’t watch it on Peacock, for some reason? It looks like a good season. Hope you’re feeling better, TT!
Love this show!
I still don’t know if it Vietnamese like I said it is a very good hole in the wall yet kinda fancy place the menu is like Forty Seven thousand pages..I DO NOT NEED THAT MANY OPTIONS.