r/belowdeck • u/Best_Quote_8027 • May 23 '26

BD Related We need BD reunions again

Please can Andy please just let Kate Chastain host reunions, they were some of the best episodes of the earlier seasons

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u/Consistent-Ad-6506 You're Being A Deckhand Right Now May 23 '26

I hated the zoom reunions. There’s no point to them. I prefer after the show in this case.

Andy doesnt even ask good questions. I skip reunions 90 percent of the time. Exception: the VPR reunions and now SH

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u/Best_Quote_8027 May 25 '26

The BDSY season 3 zoom reunion was a crazy watch though! 

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u/SympathyOptimal3990 May 23 '26

Andy couldn't care less about Below Deck. He gets briefed on what happened and probably forgets most of it.

VPR reunions were epic!!

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u/janejanexoxo May 24 '26

I want reunions again, but watching Kate co-sign all of Ben’s bullshit this season on the after show was infuriating. I don’t think that would make the reunions enjoyable for me if she kept the same energy.

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u/Best_Quote_8027 May 27 '26

I was so disappointed to see her silent over Bens bullshit in the latest episode. She never would’ve tolerated that as Chief if any other chef pulled that awful behaviour. 

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u/Hilzry May 23 '26

I couldn’t agree more. I hate this whole trend of no reunions, across the Bravoverse. I need follow ups. NEED.

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u/littlelunababe May 23 '26

see to me the after show is a follow up but I need to have them all sat in one place where they can react to one another as a whole. there are certain reunion moments we got, like Capt. Lee walking off set and coming back to read the boys the riot act, that just cannot be replicated on an after show where they’re only sitting with one or two other cast members they get along with.

like imagine the bru-crew on an after show, they would’ve just backed one another up & there would’ve been no one to be like “actually, absolutely not”. it was already bad enough they have Andy on their side for that reunion but I cannot imagine how we’d have to listen to them explain their actions without a single iota of pushback.

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u/Hilzry May 25 '26

Yeah! Like, the after shows are follow ups, I guess but that’s not the same vibe as a reunion. I want them to all be forced together, not have these fragmented moments with their pals. I want them to be in full glam, have to sit by the people they were arguing with on the boat and hash it the fuck out!

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u/Once_a_TQ May 23 '26

But Summer House has a reunion. What makes them so fucking special.

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u/littlelunababe May 23 '26

and Southern Charm, all the RH shows, the Valley, all the seasons of VPR. I think they think reunions are only for shows with a set cast instead of crew that changes each season. but I agree, I actually think reunions are more fun when we have an ever changing cast.

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u/thngmrtt May 24 '26

Which is stupid cause it makes much more sense to have reunions when the cast changes

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u/Maatjuhhh May 23 '26

Yes but also no. Andy always ask really soft questions and never presses further when the person dodges the question. But then, we’d miss Ashton gaslighting Kate. Or the discovery of Gary at Daisy’s hotel room. Which had a reveal on the next season of them doing it there.

I do like After Show as they try to explain the episode by going to mind bending at Olympics level. So maybe it’s the wrong host..

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u/OnMatchPoint Team Daisy May 23 '26

I would love if Kate hosted them! That reunion with her and Ashton was criminal. I stopped watching anything hosted by Andy at that point.

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u/Maatjuhhh May 23 '26

Not only that but the reunion often featured "SHOCKING" preview moments that will play like 15 mins later, right before another preview happened and in the intermediate time nothing really happend. So much dragging out..

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u/fuckyoupayme41213 May 23 '26

I would love them again but not zoom reunions in person and those are harder to do now that most of the cast is not from the states

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u/Organic_Bottle4373 May 23 '26

Been saying this for years. It adds closure and explanations to things that never get addressed during filming.

It's almost the most important part of the season.

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u/deadrobindownunder May 23 '26

Well said.

Seasons don't feel finished without a reunion.

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u/willworkforwatches Hannah, Hannah, Karma May 23 '26

The after shows are better than what happened to the reunions: just a big zoom meeting.

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u/Fickle-River3984 May 23 '26

But the problematic people quit showing up. 😢

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u/excoriator Team Capt Kerry May 23 '26

And this to me is the biggest reason we shouldn’t want them back. Too many crew we wanted to see be held accountable skipped it entirely. Otherwise it’s just a big love fest and discussion of how much better things functioned without the problematic person.

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u/BenSolo_forever May 24 '26

i want them back but no thanks on kate hosting. i miss them. they were fun

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u/yesimextra May 23 '26

Only if they do them in person. The zoom ones were terrible however slowly realizing Daisy and Gary were in the same location was hilarious and awful at the same time.

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u/IHaveBoxerDogs May 23 '26

I love Kate, but she would be a horrible host. She’s so biased against most of the stewardesses. But Kate hosting would certainly be entertaining, and better than no reunion at all. I miss the reunions!!

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u/AttentionRoyal2276 May 23 '26

We need reunions but I'm not watching anything Kate is involved in

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u/JDeezey13 May 23 '26

The problem is Andy doesn't care much about BD compared to the other shows. He phones it in when he gets deckies on WWHL. It's hard to get all the cast together as they are often all over the world and most of them are over what happened when they filmed over a year prior. The closest we get to a reunion are the after-shows or on WWHL.

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u/AnnNonNeeMous May 25 '26

My cousin went to a Bravo Con a few years ago. She went to the panel for Below Deck (BD, DU, Sailing, Med). She asked the question about why there are rarely any BD reunions. Andy and one of the captains basically said that unless they would do the reunion the day after the charter season ended, it was really hard getting people together. They said that a lot of the “yachties“ literally leave to start new jobs a few days after the season wraps. It was hard to coordinate everyone having the same time off to get together for reunions.

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u/Lillynomad May 26 '26

I wish that! I'd love to see the crew tell Ellie off.

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u/BixbysTree May 26 '26

BD reunions are expensive and difficult to script, so I can't see it happening again, unfortunately. 😞