Deadliest Catch
Blood is Thicker Than Water
TV Flash files “Blood is Thicker Than Water” as hour 263 of 380 in the TV Flash guide — Deadliest Catch (2005–present) on Discovery, season 16, episode 22, aired 2020-09-15, 45 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S16E22: listed hour 263 of 380 in the Deadliest Catch guide, hour 22 of 23 in season 16. It aired 2020-09-15 (45 min). The listed hour before it is “End of the Beginning” (S16E21). Next is “Everything Changes” (S16E23).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Saga loses a veteran deckhand, forcing Jake to steam a greenhorn army to the Russian line. Amid scuttlebutt that ports are closing due to a virus, Josh fights to get home for a reunion with his brother and Sig's daughter gets rushed to the hospital.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Blood is Thicker Than Water sit in the Deadliest Catch guide?
S16E22 is listed hour 263 of 380 — hour 22 of 23 in season 16, season 16 episode 22.
When did Deadliest Catch S16E22 air?
Blood is Thicker Than Water aired 2020-09-15 and is listed at 45 minutes.
Is Deadliest Catch produced danger?
Weather is the antagonist. Reality television where the danger is survived on camera more than invented for it — crab boats, sleep debt, the Bering Sea.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Alaskan crab boats, weather as the antagonist, a deck that does not care about your edit. Deadliest Catch is Discovery labor documentary as flagship — Captain Phil Harris lore, memorial episodes, reality television where the danger is not produced so much as survived on camera.
Deadliest Catch does not need a writers' room for weather. Thom Beers's Discovery series premiered in 2005 and became a long-running flagship: cameras riding with Alaskan crab fishermen through brutal seasons, nature and labor and mortality without a studio audience. Captains Phil Harris, Sig Hansen, Keith Colburn, Johnathan Hillstrand. A deck that does not care about your edit. Danger not so much produced as survived on camera. Workplace documentary-reality elevated into high-stakes seasonal event television.…
Filed against
- Phil Harris as Captain
Phil Harris was the captain on Deadliest Catch, Discovery’s 2000s Alaskan crab-boat flagship — weather as the antagonist, a deck that does not care about your edit. Labor documentary as series, memorial episodes, reality television where…
- Sig Hansen as Captain
Sig Hansen captains Deadliest Catch as himself — Alaskan crab boats, weather as the antagonist, a deck that does not care about your edit. Discovery labor documentary as flagship, danger survived on camera rather than produced. TV Flash…
- Keith Colburn as Captain
Keith Colburn captains through Deadliest Catch as Discovery labor documentary, not a produced dare — Alaskan crab boats, weather as the antagonist, a deck that does not care about your edit. Reality television survived on camera. TV Flash…
- Johnathan Hillstrand as Captain
Johnathan Hillstrand captained Deadliest Catch as Alaskan crab-boat weather — Discovery labor documentary as flagship, a deck that does not care about your edit, danger not so much produced as survived on camera. Captain Phil Harris lore,…