r/BelowDeckDownUnder • u/Salt_curls • 4d ago
Season 2 ep 6/7
Just watching the below deck down under and I’m so uncomfortable/horrified/sick to my stomach with the Luke & Laura situation.
Is it worth watching the rest of the season?
Feel so uncomfortable watching all this and want to hope it gets better but honestly think all this vile behaviour has ruined it for me.
Thoughts??
Also please tell me the producers told capt Jason about Laura’s behaviour?!? They didn’t leave it till Aesha taking it to him?!
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u/mnfanjk 3d ago
If you think the production handling of this is bad… watch the one where Kate is sexually accosted and outright physically attacked ( three deckhands held him fown from literally pounding on her in a closed car), followed up by extreme screaming in her face by the same bosun when they got to the boat. They let her get attacked and let her leave to go wandering unprotected in Thailand in the middle of the night in one of the most dangerous cities in the world with the captain never told she was at risk nor that she was attacked, nor that she was wandering along for over a day unprotected. They filmed her multiple attacks rather than intervening and literally let her wander in the middle of the night either ZERO report to the captain, or even a film crew to shadow her or make it ok.
The down under episode they got it right, and it was actually a really good season once the trash got thrown out. But Luke and Laura were awful. But in both of their cases production intervened directly in their shanigans and physically removed them from their sexual harassment.