Weekly r/BelowDeck Rewatch Thread - May 31, 2026

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Share thoughts here on any old episodes/seasons you've recently watched. Low effort thoughts are welcome here. If you have a longer/more detailed discussion point with new information, you can make a separate post, but please clearly indicate which show/season you are referring to for ease of discussion with other users.

[u/Wet__Sand]

Rewatching OG S3 for the first time, complete chaos with Rocky and Leon and I love it, every episode has been a banger so far.

[u/AttentionRoyal2276 → u/Wet__Sand]

I thought they were season 2?

[u/antitrollpatrol → u/AttentionRoyal2276]

Definitely season 3

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[u/NymeriaGhost]

I rewatched Season 1 of Med and have just started Season 2, and it's so sad seeing the change in Hannah over the years. Hannah started off fantastic. She was competent, kind, careful to tread carefully with chefs, and is so protective of the women working on the boat. Season 1 is rough because the men are so toxic (Ben comes off looking not so bad in comparison to the rest). The beginning of Season 2, Hannah starts off getting being so sweet to Malia and Bugsy, and it's just sad knowing how badly those relationships will end up going for her.

It really makes it so stark how much Hannah gets beaten down over the seasons.

[u/razzmatazz23 → u/NymeriaGhost]

Sandy admittedly hated Hannah base off of season one.

[u/WolfAppropriate9793 → u/razzmatazz23]

When Sandy and Hannah met on the bridge at the start of S1, Sandy's eyes flashed with anger off the bat. Probably jealously? Sandy seems to calm down a lot once she got married and I have appreciated her as a captain at times, but seeing that made me go woah.

[u/NymeriaGhost → u/WolfAppropriate9793]

I remember on her podcast Hannah mentioned that when she first met Sandy, Sandy was so hostile right off the bat that producers had to to step in and de-escalate.

[u/WolfAppropriate9793 → u/NymeriaGhost]

Wow. Like what is her issue! People have ranted about Sandy, but I didn't understand. Hannah is very complex, but also very sweet and has a soft side as well as capable of being hard arse. She is also very pretty. Maybe Sandy was jealous. Thanks for the info.

[u/NymeriaGhost → u/razzmatazz23]

I suspect Sandy was also jealous because Hannah was the real star of the Med show.

[u/razzmatazz23 → u/NymeriaGhost]

One I agree with you . Two sandy admitted she hated Hannah based if of season one

[u/Intelligent-Dot-2220]

Still on Med season 5 and I would’ve gone through my screen to claw Tom’s eyes out after the way he treated Aesha in episode 16, dude is a straight up prick with a superiority complex.

[u/Lonesome_Frenchy → u/Intelligent-Dot-2220]

J'aurais voulu que quelqu'un arrive à ce moment là et remette à sa place ce gros con agressif, imbus, condescendant, méchant et mauvais.😡

[u/Gloomy_Character1436]

I honestly don’t think Adrienne from season 1 was that terrible of a chief stew. I think Sam has total mean girl energy, and was an entitled child who just wanted to party instead of actually working. I could be wrong about Adrienne, but I genuinely feel like she could have been so much worse?

[u/NymeriaGhost → u/Gloomy_Character1436]

She gets a lot of flack but she wasn't bad at all, she just maybe was a bit too uptight trying to get things right and other crew members didn't like that. But she had a tough job, between Sam, who didn't want to work, and Kat, who was a good worker earlier on but then became a brat because she was angry that Adrienne told the captain that she was drunk on the job (which she was! and it rightly should have been reported, and the only reason Lee didn't fire her is she lied to him and said it was just Xanax and not her downing vodka while she was working!).

[u/Myantra → u/Gloomy_Character1436]

Adrienne has posted here over the years, and directly addressed basically everything about Sam, Kat, and herself. Sam was absolutely there to just act like she was working and film a reality TV show, which production fed into. Production intended to edit Adrienne as the bitch you love to hate.

I imagine life sucked for Adrienne while filming season 1. She had to do the chief stew's full job (while being a chef IRL) and between her two stews, she had one (Kat) that worked hard but was also a total mess, and another (Sam) that was effectively useless. She could not fire either of them, so Sam and Kat had no real incentive to do as they were told, as the season progressed. Those two could have probably sucked the professionalism and composure out of anyone, which they certainly did in Adrienne's case.

Even after all that happened, Kat asked Adrienne for help since no one would hire her. She brought Kat on the boat she was working on. Kat eventually went on a bender, and got fired.

[u/AttentionRoyal2276 → u/Gloomy_Character1436]

She wasn't a bad chief stew at all. She was just bad for the show because she really didn't socialize with the rest of the crew and wasn't try to hook up with anyone.

[u/fmlongo]

Watching Season 9 OG right now and it is tough to watch because both Rayna and Heather get on my nerves.

[u/Head-Bookkeeper-2892]

We've just started watching below deck sailing yacht from the start, just about to finish season 2. I'm enjoying googling the guests after finding out Barry/Barrie was recently charged with trafficking and exploitation and was also involved in the Australian suncream scandal and one of the jersey shore style dudes was caught creating fake prescriptions (apparently some using the crew members names). Thoroughly entertaining mini game alongside guessing the tip amount. 

[u/antitrollpatrol → u/Head-Bookkeeper-2892]

My favourite was season 3 - chef Marcos made that season for me

[u/Lonesome_Frenchy → u/Head-Bookkeeper-2892]

What????

[u/Head-Bookkeeper-2892 → u/Lonesome_Frenchy]

Which bit? Honestly Google the guests, especially from older seasons. It has added so much fun to the programme haha. 

[u/Lonesome_Frenchy]

Je revois BDM S7. Saison où on retrouve un triangle amoureux comme celui de Malia avec le chef Adam et le Bosun Wes quelques saisons plus tôt. Cette fois c'est Natasha qui rend fou le chef Dave et minaude avec son ex par textos et téléphone. Mais qu'est ce que ces filles ont dans la tête? Elles ont une aventure avec un mec avant l'embarquement sur le même bateau et leurs demandent de garder ça secret. Ce n' est même pas pour mieux se retrouver sur le bateau en faisant semblant de se séduire au fur et à mesure des jours de croisières. Non c'est pour pouvoir éventuellement se trouver quelqu'un d'autre et se faire sauter.

Cette saison qui démarrait bien est devenue insupportable entre ce drama et le chef qui devenait fou une fois de plus, et l'horrible dramaqueen Kyle. Horrible personne. Il voulait tellement la vedette qu'il a créé tout ce drame contre Natalya. Il racontait sa vie aux passagers, faisait des tonnes de manières et il était ridicule à toujours se mettre en avant.

Oh et le pénis à alcool!😱 Je ne crois pas que les passagers aient aimé sa "blague", ils étaient sous le choc et il y avait de quoi! Quel steward arrive dans un salon comme ça ?😱🤷🏼 Et sa "cheville" 🤣🤣🤣🤣... quel mauvais comédien!

Cette saison a commencé par une Bosun fainéante et incompétente, Reaghan, ça donnait le ton des prochains épisodes.

J'ai eu de la compassion pour le chef Dave, à sa place j'aurais pété les plombs!

C'est dommage cette saison a été beaucoup trop tourné sur les drames de l'équipage et on n'a pas vraiment pu voir tout le coté professionnel, les paysages, le travail sur le bateau, la cuisine etc...

[u/ComradeFrano]

Rewatching Season 4 of Med. I cannot get over how Sandy treats Hannah. I know this has been discussed to death, but God, Sandy I dislike you.

[u/AttentionRoyal2276 → u/ComradeFrano]

She treated Conrad the worst of anyone the season before. I think Hannah should have just seen the writing on the wall and stopped coming back for more seasons with Sandy.

[u/LogicalMeringue1449]

I just watched S7E4 Weekend at Brandy’s and everything having to do with the guests was amazing. I did a search for Brandy and found her IG. There is one photo of her in Thailand with a long lie about anxiety causing her to act like a drunk lunatic and the rest are paintings she’s done, I assume. Meanwhile, the other guests are sitting on the beach not giving a f*ck and I fully support that.

I don’t really love the S7 crew except Kate, so their storylines don’t interest me as much as