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Asa certain TV city correspondentmight say, This.
If this season ofBelow Deckhadnt sold you yet, tonight was the night.
Consider it a tasting menu of what this crew has to offer.
Theyre kind of both right, arent they?
In better news, the provisioner can send Rachel the caviar, which prompts Rachels longest bleep ever.
Dont the stews have wine to serve or something?
But shes finally able to serve it, and the guests predictably love it.
Then were off to the races on dinner.
Theres shrimp, theres burrata, theres local lobster bisque.
It all looks decadent, and the guests love it.
Rachel even pulls off an astonishing bone marrow with osso buco for the meat course.
Captain Lee even says hes never had such a great dinner from a chef.
We simply have to stan Rachel Hargrove.
Who knew these 40- and 50-somethings would be our rowdiest guests so far?
They even have a TIM IS 50 T-shirt for Lee to wear when its his turn to drink.
After dinner, Ashling calls her extremely loud mother on the phone.
Did you hear about the coronavirus?
Oh yeah, you reply to your TV, I think I have!
Im hoping that its not as serious as people are making it out to be, she says.
How naive were we!
(At least Ashling isfrom Australia, which had a competent response to the pandemic!)
Are you surprised Elizabeth does not do that?
Tequila, red wine, Baileys, the works.
But come on, no ones a bigger problem right now than Shane.
His excuse is thathis phone diedafter he left it on while FaceTiming his girlfriend.
(If Shane somehow still has a girlfriend, I hope shes not watching this show.)
Its both unbelievable that someone could mess up this badly and totally believable that Shane would.
I fucked up, he tells Eddie later, for seemingly the millionth time.
Its a $20,000 tip, and most of the crew has totally earned it.
Coming from Captain Lee, that ought to strike some fear into Shane and Elizabeths hearts.
Then Lee has a separate meeting with Eddie about Shanes conduct, again.
he says Shane sleeping in undid all that goodwill and hes given him lots of chances.
Well say our good-byes to Sunshine next week.
(Last episodesgot close.)
But this weeks feels particularly phoned in, right?
You could slap Just Another Day in Paradise on anyBelow Deckepisode and it would make enough sense.
Im just loving the odd-couple friendship between James and Izzy and praying it never becomes anything more than that.
Lets talk about that preference-sheet meeting teased for next episode.
Eddie and Francesca look properly surprised bysomethingabout the next charter, while Rachel tells Lee its disgusting.
Are we getting a controversial group of guests?
Or does it have anything to do with that phone call we see Rachel having right before about COVID?
And does Rachel, an icon in every sense, really tellCaptain Leeto go fuck yourself?
I will be thinking about this all week.
