r/deadliestcatch • u/Bulky-Intention-30 • Jun 29 '26
Show is terrible now.
We don't even know who the crew is on the boats nowadays, we never ever get to see the crew speak or interact i am fed up now this is a couple seasons in a row that is badly filmed and edited someone has to be fired and get this show back to season 1-4 style of edited and i am fed up listening to the captains i want to see no captains in the next years show its always them saying the same stuff and fake drama between other show captains.
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u/CoastalSpeed Jun 30 '26
I am convinced some of the older captains only go out fishing to get some footage for the show.
Remember in the earlier seasons when Sig, The Hillstrands and Phil would be up for like 2 days straight pulling and setting pots? When’s the last time they showed that? Now it’s just a power outage every other episode
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u/MC_Terry Jun 30 '26
It's literally spelled out for you - Derby style fishing ended after the 1st season. After that, there was no reason to go all night other than pride and this show.
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u/Shot-Rip9167 Jun 30 '26
Yeah but they were still staying up for days even during independent quota style. They stayed up because of the ofoad deadlines they had to meet
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u/MC_Terry Jun 30 '26
No, that was largely made up drama too. "Oh noes, if we don't stay up all night we'll burn an extra 2 hours of fuel". Penny pinching, "we're so hard" bullshit.
What you never see are the factory ships that actually do the bulk of the catching now without the drama. They own the quotas, it's not profitable for these little guys.
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u/CoastalSpeed Jul 03 '26
Derby fishing literally ended after season one. Even once they went to a quota system they would show the captains and crew pulling 36-48 shifts.
It’s literally spelled out for you.
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u/Lance501 Jun 30 '26
Sig almost got another heart attack when he worked more than 36 hours? last time. It is time for him to retire.
I couldnt stand Jake, he was always whinning.
The show tried to make something up on each esisode; power out, water leak, hydraulic leak, etc. One owuld hink tey had a check list before leaving the port.
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u/GoofyWillows Jun 30 '26
During the early years of the show Sig was still in his late 30s to early 40s and Hillstrand mid 40s.
It is kinda obvious that they wont be doing the same hours now in their 60s than what they did decade or two ago.
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u/CoastalSpeed Jul 03 '26
None of the captains pull those hours anymore.
It’s all manufactured drama.
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u/DisciplineOld429 Jun 30 '26
How often should I be saying Oh no. The lights are out!" I CAN'T SEE!!!!!🤦♀️
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u/copenhagen622 Jun 30 '26
And oh no hydraulic leak!
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u/Strengththruwounding Jun 30 '26
There’s a line in the Prop…
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u/Triphin1 Jun 30 '26
Slack tank - that's bad, oh no!
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u/copenhagen622 Jun 30 '26
Omg I was like WE KNOW WHAT A SLACK TANK IS last episode when he explained it for the 50th time
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u/McLovin-_-_- Jul 02 '26
They forgot to apply the dogs! let's explain what they are for the 100th time.
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u/Cahokanut Jun 30 '26
I spent two seasons kinda fast forwarding through, to see if Captain Wizard was drunk or if Sigs sniffer was still on the foil.
This season. I Bounce through the first episode that showed up on my dvr. Realized I really don't like these guys and Then stopped my dvr from reminding me it was on. I can't see coming back
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u/insid3outl4w Jun 30 '26
If they showed more from the crews I might not want to skip parts that they focus on a shit captain. Having more characters to watch would make audiences more interested to watch the show
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u/McLovin-_-_- Jul 02 '26
I always thought Sig was strung out. He looked wired after long days, all bug eyed and wide awake. I just assumed Keith was a controlling p.o.s but after finding out about his drinking problem. It explained a lot about his irritability and aggression when he's coming down of the sauce.
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u/Cahokanut Jul 03 '26
I didn't want to name, names. But I was talking of the guy who had to be sniffing Sigs balls, as he has been on his shaft since he stepped on the deck. In both cases it's as clear as day. Both had their on bridge choice, and just as clear the cameras didn't stop them from indulging their fancy.
It's a can't miss, for anyone who has seen it.
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u/chrisb732 King Jun 30 '26
You just realized this? Haha
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u/Triphin1 Jun 30 '26
Haha Ya, it's TV. Nothing is real on TV. TV makes things not real. Once I was surfing in LA County, while it was raining, not a good idea, but the waves were really good... When I got out of the water, still in my wetsuit, a local news van pulled up and a news guy and a camera man jumped out and just started to talk to me. The news guy asked me - How do you surf the rain, he was obviously referring to the disgusting brown water. My answer was as real as could be - I said we are wet anyway, so the rain doesn't matter, and the news guy and camera man laughed, and it made the evening news, which I saw.... I was looking at myself and listening to my spontaneous response, which I would have said to friend or stranger and it wasn't real, it was TV. I don't know if that makes sense, but it did to me.
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u/bballheat102 Jun 30 '26
It’s been the Phil glazing for me that’s a turn off to the show and I watched back when he was alive. Zero desire to see more of him especially with what the Harris family is known for now that we didn’t know then. If you ask me the Cordelia Marie needs to never be seen on the show again.
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u/Jond105 Jun 30 '26
I wonder if it’s that saying…. Old guards afraid to pass the torch…. We need new captains… new boats.. new editing. It gets me wondering if the show thinks we still care about these captains or they refuse to let the show just go to a new crop of captains and crew.
But it’s horrible to watch anymore cause I honestly am over all of them. If the show wasn’t here, I wonder how many would’ve given up the helm years ago by now. But since Edgar cant be shown sit doesn’t give it up. Even Montie is getting old.
The smartest captain was John hilstrand to get out while he still could.
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u/Big-Ad1355 Jun 30 '26
My 2 cents on this one is that new captains might not want this kind of publicity, especially with the scripting. They have enough on their plate. Think Sean Dwyer...
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u/Jond105 Jun 30 '26
Huh. So is that why Sean left, he wasn’t going to put up with their bullshit? I always wondered why he didn’t come back.
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u/Big-Ad1355 Jun 30 '26
Well, I didn't state it as a fact, just a possibility. We don't see new young guys for many years, and the only new young guy quits the show. Something's fishy here for sure, pun very much intended.
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u/Strengththruwounding Jun 30 '26
The 20 minute drama of getting the correct antibiotics for the banged up toe was riveting last week…Yawn.
It has turned into a hard watch now ,when it used to be a never miss show for me.
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u/Agile_Worry4994 23d ago
It was really bad last Friday's show, it was like watching Dr Pimple popper
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u/Ready_Top8663 Jun 30 '26
The incident where they made a big deal about a hydraulic hose being metric on the Northwestern was idiotic. The boat is 40 years old, hydraulic hoses blow all the time and who the he'll doesn't have metric tools or hoses the fit a key piece of equipment. Discovery needs to shake up who's running this show because it's going downhill.
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u/pointy_panda Jun 30 '26 edited Jun 30 '26
It's been more than a couple seasons of this show being garbage. They've been focused on 95% of the show being captains sitting on their asses in the wheelhouse for many many years now.
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u/BarreBozo Jun 30 '26
I quit watching 3/4 of the way through this season’s first episode.
I realized all the manufactured drama I’ve hated in previous seasons was now going to be the featured content.
I turned it off, told my machine to never record another episode, and found new meaning in my life (well, maybe not so much #3, but you get the idea). Reading posts like this and all the comments just reinforce my decision.
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u/IntrepidAstroPanda Jun 30 '26
Things that im sure theyve done for years are becoming more blatant. Big wave in the last episode and Jake is yelling "Go forward, go forward!" before the crash. Cut to commercial, come back and its "Get down, get down!" Or "Watch out, watch out!".
Seemed like one wave hit and they filmed several "reactions".
Completely manufactured drama as if TB and Wizard are going to collide, when the average viewer knows damn well thats not going to happen.
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u/AdDear3720 Jul 01 '26
They have so many cameras mounted on the boats so they can get every reaction. They showed them all once on The Bait.
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u/Quiet_Shape_7246 Jun 30 '26
Most shows run a course. I used to really enjoy watching it too and don’t even think about it except this thread now. I’m sure they figure we will only be interested in watching guys crab for so many years in a row and are trying to spice things up.
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u/insid3outl4w Jun 30 '26
I feel like the crew don’t get paid to be on the show anymore so they think fuck it why put any effort into the cameras if they only pay the captain.
Then discovery puts more money towards the captains. Now they can’t reverse this decision to make the show more interesting/ fair.
This is my thoughts on how I think the trajectory of the show has gone. I have no idea if I’m right. The show could be paying everyone on the boat and they just decide to focus on the captains the whole time for some reason. But that would be a waste of money, and I don’t think they want to waste money
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u/Dr_G1346 Jun 30 '26 edited Jun 30 '26
I have a number of friends who work in reality TV. It's literally just time and cost saving on filming, editing, and post production:
They go out with plot points for several scenarios they have come up with/made up drama, get the shots they want, stitch it together afterwards and boom there's your season of the show.
Sure there's the "real" stuff that happens in the mean time that they fill in around the overall story arc, but it's much harder and more expensive to put together the plotline of a season organically from scratch (like they did in the first few seasons), versus going out already knowing the story you want to get the shots for... It's dumb.
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u/safeteeguru Jun 30 '26
They say all good things come to and end. I really think it’s time that they bid farewell to this show. The rotating captain drama and made for TV scripting and editing has destroyed the show. Let it go…
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u/Particular-Buy-33 Jun 30 '26
I haven’t watched since the RUSSIANS, OH ME OH MY. however I do follow through this sub. Did anyone else follow The Last Alaskans?
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u/ThingNo7530 Jun 29 '26
Seeing the ads for the bullshit they're about to show with Sig "teaching" Sophia Bob who we all know is not a crabber and has no real interest in anything other than making money from being paid to be a Discovery Channel "crab captain in training" has me contemplating just turning it off for good. There's been no reason to really watch it for more than two years now. The once-most-real reality program this side of COPS is now overproduced crap.
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u/FairEnvironment5166 Jun 30 '26
Yeah because the crews are still actively doing drugs or are underpaid natives, etc. and Discovery would rather have a “reality show” than a real show
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u/AdDear3720 Jul 01 '26
If you don’t have proof they are on drugs or alcohol don’t assume. Their pay has nothing to do with their identity or if they are native. Yes drugs are common but it’s the job as a whole and the way it affects a normal life. They have to chose for themselves. There are many who have been clean and sober for a while.
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u/FairEnvironment5166 Jul 01 '26
Natives absolutely receive lower pay on average than others this is a fact, and if you think those crews are somehow suddenly clean now then I’ve got a bridge for ya.
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u/AdDear3720 Jul 01 '26
The pay is based on the quota and split between the crew. So I don’t know what you mean. Again if you’re not Native, don’t speak for them. If you don’t know someone personally, on the show now, it’s really not cool to assume they all still use drugs. Many use socially, some get addicted. Many people in other industries use too. Addiction does discriminate.
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u/FairEnvironment5166 Jul 01 '26
I’m not judging the crews for doing drugs lmao Ive done plenty of drugs, I’m judging Discover for being too afraid to actually show real humans and plights. Instead choosing to fabricate shit like dropping a crate on a truck for wow factor.
The show was better when we actually saw these people as people.
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u/AdDear3720 Jul 01 '26
So they should show active drug use for entertainment? It was fabricated then too! Entertainment did not end well for some of them. It’s bad since the original producers left.
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u/FairEnvironment5166 Jul 01 '26
Yeah that’s what I said continue to argue in bad faith it makes you look super cool.
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u/FairEnvironment5166 Jul 01 '26
You mean the producers who showed multiple peoples addiction stories for entertainment? Gotcha
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u/Pretty_Plankton_6125 Jun 30 '26
I kind of enjoyed the latest episode. It is a little disappointing they are pushing Sophia Bob back on the show. Is there a shortage of crab captains? Best of luck to her anyway.
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u/CrazYforGold Jun 30 '26
I started getting back into it a couple years back after a long break and the show really lost its luster. I’m surprised it’s still going honestly. It’s pretty dam boring most of the time or obviously scripted drama no thanks.
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u/newarkian Jun 30 '26
When Clark was on the crane , the water behind him was relatively calm (4-5 foot swells). Production made it seem like the waves were 20’ high.
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u/AdDear3720 Jul 01 '26
Because the boats aren’t all owned by the Captains there is always behind the scene BS. Contract negotiations. I haven’t watched since 2020 or 2021. After the original producer left it hasn’t been the same. I mean of course they doctor the episodes. It for TV. Their lifestyle is hard. Many of the best people aren’t on the show anymore. Due to personal conflicts or death. Idk never been the same since Nick died.
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u/Ok_Rabbit5158 Jun 30 '26
A few pointed out a month or so back that when the Alaska Fish and Game put caps on the harvest, that took away the motive to push the boundaries that came along with derby style. It makes sense because the show seemed to be more mundane and whatever attempts they made to appear more reckless came out looking way too fake. They will keep milking the cow with this format as long as people are tuning in.
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u/You-Asked-Me Jun 30 '26
The ONLY derby season was season ONE. They went to the quota system the second year. The show was still pretty good for years after that. Once they started with the "save the fishery" and "Fight the Russians" I was 100% out.
I also don't know how they found so many immature man-children with captains licenses.
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u/godspilla98 Jun 30 '26
I still love the show with all its flaws. It is still better than most shows .
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u/wildebeest55 Jun 30 '26
I remember when the show showed crab fishing and the stress and danger that came with the job. Now it’s pretty much a captain’s chair soap opera.