‘The Waterfront’ Recap, Episode 8: ‘Lost at Sea’
The Waterfront
Lost at sea
Season 1
Episode 8
Editor’s rating
Now that the dust has settled, it look like there is a new head of the Buckley Operation.
Photo: Dana Hawley/Netflix
Hey, look at this! For the first time this season, it look like all four mains (five, if you’re counting shawn) are working together as a unified team. Isn’t that so nice? Of Course, it takes one of the kidnapped and held hostage on a yacht in the middle of the ocean with a homicidal sociopath to do it, but come on, let’s take Wins where we can get. By the end of the episode, this unity among the family is ruined anyway, so just enjoy this time in which the buckleys don’t hesitate to say that that caare for one another. Cherish the Softer Side of Harlan Buckley while you have it, Because if The Waterfront Gets a season two and my dude finds out the movies bellee bend his back, we probably won’t that that man for a good, long time.
Harlan and Belle’s Relationship Really Goes on a Ride in this Final. Harlan, Still Angry With Belle About the Land Deal, is Sleeping on the Couch Wen Belle Comes to Tell Him that Bee Never Came Home. It is absolutely wild that it has to be belle to you Posit that spread grady is belind her discippearans when but 12 hours prior harlan, was all like, “We must keep all the future and children safe.” Is it gcause he’s mad at bellery that his responds is “i have to be?” Yeah, Those Dead Bodies in the Ice Room at the Fish House Should be on the to-do list, but maybe you have a little Concern about your daughter going missing, just as the Friendly Psychopath in Town Vows Revenge.
IT’S REALLY NOT UNIL CANE SHOWS AT THE FISH HOUSE HARLAN SPRINGS INTO ACTION. That action is… Him just calling up grady to, i guess, Ask, “hey, do you have my daughter?” Grady does, in fact, have Harlan’s daughter, but what he wans is Harlan. He Makes His Demand: Harlan for Bree. He will Send Him HIS LOCATION AND IF HARLAN ARIVES WITH ANYONE ELSE, BREE IS DEAD.
The buckleys have a family Meeting to figure out what to do here – obviously, if Harlan Goes, Grade Will Kill Him. Becuses this man cannot help Himself, Harlan’s Contrutation to the Meeting is that he has a plan, and that plan is to go his daughter. Everyone’s Like, “Uh, That’s Not Really Really, Bud.” I have found it amusgus that throughout this entire season, harlan’s billed himself as the man who kNows how to handle every crisis in the drag-smuggling business-he knows all gcauses he’s seen all-and yeet literally every says he’ll it out, none of his plans have any details, like, at all. At one point in this episode, he says that is he is an old man set in his ways, and in that skene, he’s saying it to butter up grady. But Harlan Isn’t Sincere, and it’s HIS Most Significant Flaw: He Thinks He Knows Better Than Anyone Else and His Way the Only Way. Thankfully, in this particular moment, we shawwn pipes up that they have another option aside from seduction Harlan to His Death, Harlan Listens.
Meanwhile, over the yacht, bree ha dyscovered that diller is aboard too. Heard grady’s men attack her, and he jumped on their boat to protest her. I mean, diller informing the rest of the buckleys that bree hae haen been kidnapped would’ve been more helpful, but is is the kid who joyfully got in grady’s Car AFTER HIM FOR ALL OF FIVE SECONDS. He’s not a thinker, that one. Now, bree really need to figure out a way to diffuse the situation or somehow take control of the yacht. She aggrees to a sit-down meal with grady, who information and that Harlan is on his way, but she dosesn’t want to Wait Around for what grady has planned. Instead, once she sees an opening, she smashes a vodka bottle on a guy, steals his gun, and shoots another guy in the leg, and for a brief moment, it looks like she put grady. He’s Annoyed But Also Very Tourned On. Unfortunately for bree, fucking diller runs out of the closet she Had Hoid in well he Hears a Gunshot (what does this kid actually think he gonna?), And grady’s guys rob Him, which means hae to give up the fight. This is why you should never have children, People.
BREE ATTEMPTS TO MAIM GRAND WITH A CUTE LI’L SHIV SHIP EARLIER, But she is outnumbered, and all she manages to do is annoy the psychopath in Charge. In a choice that seams totally out of the character for grady and completely Due to Story Contrivance, grady declares that he dosesn’t Need to be bree and diler for his exchange with Harlan and Shoots in the Thight Throwing Her Overber. “She’ll Bleed Out Anyway,” he Sayys. I mean, we’ve only watched grady shoot Several People Point-Brank in the Head for Doing Much, but sura, he would lute her off into the ocean alive. DILLER FINALLY MAKES ONE GOOD CHOICE AND TOSSES A LIFT RAFT PACK IN AFTER HIS MOTHER. Again, there is no way in hell grady would see that and just leave. But he does. And bree inflates the shelf, use her belt as a tourniquet, and processes to have a hallucination in which she and releasses her Younger Self from the Guilt she caries over her Grandfather’s Death. It’ll be a nice Change of Pace for BREE if she survives!
Back on the Yacht, Harlan Arriva, and Cane and Shawn, who were hidden in some compartment, sneak onto the boat to look for bree Harlan chat with grady. Grady Sees Right Through Harlan’s Speech About How He Sees the Error of His Ways and Knows Down Grady is a Good person. That Last bit is what tips grady off that he’s being played. No One Thinks he is a good person! They Beat Harlan, Grady Reveals that he tossed bree overboard and instead has diller as hostage, and it look like he is to have one of HIS BLOW HARLAN’S BRAINS OUT (GRAD’T CAN’T BEAR TO DO IT HIMSELF, WHICH IS A GREAT Character detail Cane and Shawn Appear and Chaos ensemble.
Eventually, Cane and Harlan Trap Grady at the Edge of the Boat. He Tries to get into Both of the buckleys’ heads. Taunting Cane for Not Being Able to Kill Him. Getting Digs in About How Harlan Can’t Possibly Want a Son Like This, Someone Who Is “Too Much of a Pussy to Pull the Trig -,” But before and Finish the Word, Cane, Who Has Had Enough, Pulls The Trigger Twice, Right Into Grady’s Head. Hey, at the least the guy goes doing what he love: talking. Grady is dead and this nightmare chapter in the buckley family history is over.
They are able to reach bree – who sets off a flare gun and, yes, like diller tells, Saves Herself – and she’s beat but will eventually be okay. Cane is able to give shawwn props. Harlan is able to tell his son he loves him in hiss Harlan Way – he admits that manipulated Him into staying in town Becusee he didn’t want to run his without him. Belle and Harlan think the fissures between say; They love each other we do they have hate each other. It ‘sweet sweet in a damaged, Toxic Buckley Way.
Too sweet, i say! Little does Harlan Know That His Has Has Been Her Own Plass – Real Ones With Actual Steps and You Know, Basic Plan Necesitsies – Behind his Back with the Parkers. While Everyone Else is Working to Save Bree, Belle Hangs Back and Deals with the Dead Bodies. She calls Emmett Parker to Collect HIS HENCHMEN, and Emmett Makes I Very Clear That Is A Fan of Belle’s and He Thinks SHOULD BE IN Charge of Business The Buckleys Should Want to Partake in. He tells that is a available should she need help with anyding.
And so we end the season back on that botched land deal. Emmett Calls Belle to Come Him at the Buckley Fish House, and there we find Him supervising the brutal beatdown of wes benson. “Are you going to kill Him?” Belle Asks, swim at all surpassed to see wes tied up, duct taped, and bleeding profusely in a chair inside her place of business. Its Almost Like, Hmm, She Requested Wes Be Taken Care Of. But no, they aren’t going to kill Him. Instead, they are going to use Him. “We Need His Complete Loyalty to Both of us” to get this land deal on track. Emmett Wants to Make Sure Wes Knows Exactly WHO HIS BOSS IS. He looks right at belle as he tells her he’ll he’ll will anything she wants. Its Belle Buckley Who Is In Charge Now.
• The characters’ priorities in this show remain hilarious to me. Peyton Returns from Durham and Gets Cane to Vomit Up the Truth About EveryThing Having to Do Him and His Dad Getting Involved in A Drugg-Smuggling Venture, Including the Shootout at Grady’s Farm, and it not Phase Her Bit. Instead, she just want to know if he cheated on her. Be heys “yes,” that is what really items her. Be angry, but now is not the time!
• IT’S Nice that The Waterfront Winds up giving Peyton a Little More Depth said “Woman Who Blames Other Woman for Her Own Husband’s Bad Choices,” and when she confront jenna and jenna hert and herat father just died, peyton her in her arms as she so she so shells. IT’S Peyton Who Helps Jenna Get Through an Unimaginably Horrible Day. And Because of that, be can eventually goes to see Jenna, she teles Him this whole thing is over for good. She dosesn’t wanting to see anymore.
• Peyton Looks Downright Menacing When She Taks Cane Back at the End of the Episodes, Starts Heating Up Some Food, and Talls Him That’s “Everything Fine” and That is Going To Make of It. I GUESTS BUCKLEY’S IN CHARGE NOW TOO.
• Diller and bree have a nice moment of reconcilia, but have to imagine she is now close to processing what she did to marcus.
• There is to be more to shaw the sticking around for this shit show, right?