User Reviews

Matt Walsh asked, "What is a woman?" And still apparently hasn't figured it out. Ice Cold Catch made a series but let me give an alternative title to this Ice Cold Catch series. "What is a strong person?" And they answer it. Caitlin Krause is a strong person.

So it looks on face value like a fishing show where they get to wow you with the dangers of an exotic job with no WHS rules and a bunch of cowboys racking up cash and blowing it on fun. It has a twist where they have apprentices "greenhorns" who are put on the ship to try their hand at it. We are used to these scripts and can usually predict how they go.

Enter Caitlin Krause (Caitie), she's a 5 foot nothing late 20's pommy who has a damaged body from a car accident when she was younger and has just finished working on exotic yachts as a service attendee. Caitie is likable from the get go and you want to cheer for her but you know deep down that she just won't be able to do it.

There are other greenhorns but it does feel like this was Caitie's story and the others weren't as much main characters as much as they were a benchmark to measure Caitie against. The crew and captains on the ships were equally as important as the other greenhorns in terms of making the series work but without Caitie... It never would have made the screens.

The series gives us that feeling that we used to get form the big catch shows, it makes us appreciate the scenery of Iceland, it makes us really like the culture of these ships and how they do such difficult things. Then it gives us something deeper, I liked seeing some of the bravest and strongest people do seemingly impossible things without any screaming, flexing, chest pounding or testosterone screaming antics. Don't get me wrong, some of these brutes look like true Vikings, but even those guys are mingling the same way with some really small and actually disabled colleagues. The disabled colleagues equally able at the job. They have a way to show how tough they are by not showing how tough they are. It shows that life is mental and physical and both are equally important. I think that if I had more time to think about this then it would come down to ego. And family. And what is strength. And how to use pressure or stress or trauma to your advantage.

As the series goes on, we get to see how the culture on these boats is very family orientated, the crew have family ashore bit also on board. To be in this boat family, a lot is asked and most don't have what it takes to join. The crew are very patient with the new recruits because they were there once and it will be a painful experience for the applicant, who is more likely to fail than not. The high point is that we get to watch Caitie push and push and push and against all pre conceptions, the people on the boat actually start to see her as one of their own and they need to keep pushing her, but you can see, they are cheering for her. Watch for yourself to see what happens, the spoiler is that Caitie is a strong person, that's why they see her early on for what she is. Just like my friend Morgan, we see her for what she is.