The Below Deck franchise is about to celebrate its 10th birthday on Bravo.
When the series sailed onto our screens in 2013, the idea that I'd still be invested a decade later didn't float.
The year is 2023, and any quasi-successful series has countless spinoffs, but it's rare for a spinoff to outshine the original.
Enter Below Deck: Sailing Yacht, the dark horse of the franchise.
When the show kicked off in 2020, it was an utter disaster, with many believing it wouldn't survive into a second season.
Thanks to more people at home due to COVID-19, the show garnered decent ratings.
Thankfully, Bravo understood that finding the right cast is the key to delivering drama worthy of the high seas.
Producers thought we were interested in watching a cast built around Below Deck: Mediterranean's Adam Glick, and it was hands down one of the worst seasons in franchise history -- even worse than Below Deck: Adventure's sole, disastrous season.
Something tells me the latter will NOT see a second season, which is a shame because Below Deck: Sailing Yacht Season 2 rose like a phoenix from the ashes of its messy freshman season.
Below Deck: Sailing Yacht got a second shot at life, albeit with some big changes, and it's blossomed into the best show in the franchise and one of the best shows on TV.
The fun didn't really begin until Below Deck: Sailing Yacht Season 2, which revealed Glenn Shephard was the lone returning star from the freshman season as the captain of the Parsifal III.
We were introduced to Chief Stewardess Daisy Kelliher, Chief Engineer Colin Macrae, and First Officer Gary King, among others.
The trio remains on the series two seasons later for one reason:
Fans have connected with them.
On the current Below Deck: Sailing Yacht Season 4, fans have been given a front-row seat into what can only be described as a love triangle, complete with some twists and turns you'd expect to be reserved for primetime soap operas.
It's hard to take the love triangle seriously, but when you have Gary telling Daisy it's always been her after she moved on with Colin, it makes for great TV.
You do have to suspend your disbelief at some moments, including Daisy wrongly calling Colin Gary and the apparent fact that Colin didn't know about Daisy and Gary's past.
He clearly hasn't been watching Below Deck: Sailing Yacht online!
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