

So we start out with a finale episode that doesn’t know it’s a finale episode, beginning with Francesca firing Elizabeth. But like everything else in this world, the season ending we deserved got cut short by the COVID-19 pandemic. As expected, this episode built up a few plotlines that would’ve ended this season with a bang: the rift between Rachel and Francesca over Elizabeth’s firing, Rob’s continued assholery toward Izzy, James’s life post-Elizabeth, the new stew who would’ve replaced Elizabeth, and, of course, everyone’s COVID anxieties.

If this weren’t our Below Deck season-eight finale, I’d be spending all of this week waiting for the next episode.
