#below deck

A luxury yacht. Elite influencers. Endless parties. Big money. Doesn’t sound all bad, right? As soon as I saw the main character was a ‘Bookstagrammer,’ I knew I had to dive into The Last Time We Drowned by Saratoga Schaefer. It begs the question: If you were invited to join this elite inner circle and make a life-changing amount of money, would you step on board? Even if you knew everyone on…

Men need to be dropped on a god damn remote-ass island. And then the island needs to be firebombed. This Eddy person (and i do not trust or respect anyone who spells their name like the tiny whirlpool) is walking around listening to manosphere podcasts while lamenting the fact that he was wronged! by Jenna! when he dicked her around in the exact same way 5 charters ago! and she's 22! how are you going to get bested by a 22 year old, who is behaving the in the exact way hot 22 year old girlies the world over should be behaving! which is mess! you're gonna end up on a list somewhere, weirdo

i do not have enough time to get into how toxic Ben is. how he HATES it every time the Irish girlie (oh no does the fact that i can't remember her name mean i am part of the toxic masculinity problem???) asks or tells him to do ANYTHING. this is a WORKPLACE, OF WORK. YOU DO THE WORK THAT PEOPLE ASK YOU TO DO IN PART BECAUSE YOU FEED EVERYONE WHO YOU WORK WITH. also you are 45 why are you involving yourself with a 22 year old AT ALL

THANK YOU FOR ASKING. I've never watched Selling Sunset! Should I? I'm more tuned into the Bravo-verse, and Below Deck was absolutely the gateway reality show that got me there.

I think reality shows fall into a few different categories: existing friend group drama, strangers thrown together drama, and workplace drama. Below Deck combines all three. You're not just watching the rich yacht guests be ridiculous, you're also watching the crew while they live together on the yacht and deal with the ridiculous rich guests. Real upstairs/downstairs vibes. When the franchise first started, a lot of the crew were actual yachties who respected the business and really lived that life, but as it's gone on, more and more of the crew members are just chasing reality tv fame and have no idea how to make a bed or throw lines or whatever, so their long-suffering coworkers have to pick up their slack (or get them fired). There are a few repeat crew members, especially among the chief stews and bosuns, but it's usually a mostly new cast every season. It's just the right amount of personality clashes and weird rivalries and messy hookups and intense bonding. It just works so well.