Below Deck Down Under
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Mates, the day has come for our patience to be rewarded.
At first, we might have even beencharmedby him; then we weredisturbedand finallyrevolted.
We kept watching even as he enveloped theKatinain a demented cloud of chaos.
Its like an infection, the captain explains.
I need to cut the infection out.
Because nothing can ever be perfect, in losing him, we had to lose Johnny, too.
In a drunken game of telephone, whispers and opinions course through the boat.
At one point, Wihan calls Alesia to … say nothing useful or helpful.
He doesnt even bother to get up from his bed to talk to her.
While he goes soundly back to sleep, Alesia vents to the girls about how guilty she feels.
If only that were it!
Johnny gets fired first, for the sake of the safety of the crew, as Jason puts it.
Johnny looks disappointed in himself, but takes the firing on the chin.
Thats why Im leaving.
Thats not really why hes leaving he got fired but I would never begrudge Johnny his poetics.
He will be so missed!
They all pile into vans, including Jason, which I found interesting.
He does leave after getting some CVs from the agency and seeing two ginormous 300-year-old turtles go at it.
The rest of the crew chills on the beach, swimming and tanning and trying to recover their sanities.
The bosun is an Australian lumberjack jot down named Nate with seven years of yachting experience.
Trust me, Nick: I believe you.
Once Nikita and her girls get onboard, he is immediately smitten by all of them.
By refusing to be fair to Marina, Lara is creating an issue withtwoBrazilian women.
The tension that builds between Lara and Tzarina culminates during dinner service.
First, Lara criticizes Tzarinas choice of plates and gets her to change them.
The guests love it.
After dinner, they want to play drinking games, so Bri and Nick stay up with them.
It takes no time at all for Nick to violate those rules.
He agrees, she makes the shot, he downs the tequila.
Discreetly, she reminds him that theyre not supposed to drink on charter.
He is all I cant believe I did this about it, and very unconvincing.
I dont really buy Nicks whole persona.
It looks like were in for a turbulent second half of the season.
Heres hoping its all enough to save the season.
I needmorefrom these people.
