Three words, many abs

Asked to sum up their show, Miku Martineau went with drama, abs, rowing. Kyle Clark offered rivalry, passion, chemistry. Sam Braun landed on stud muffins.

“Drama, abs, rowing.”

A rower with no team

Teagan Tao is a competitive high school rower forced to move to the East Coast after a family scandal. Her new school has no girls' rowing team.

So she runs the boat

Teagan joins the boys' team as their coxswain, the person who steers the boat and coordinates the crew. Different job, same sport, everything new.

Caught between two rowers

Quiet townie Cam Dillinger and star rower Josh Regis both pull her in, while all three carry family drama of their own.

Two tropes, one deck

The show runs enemies-to-lovers and friends-to-lovers side by side. Martineau prefers enemies-to-lovers on screen, though not in real life.

“My personal life, no, I don't want an enemy.”

The cast picks sides

Clark claimed friends-to-lovers, which Martineau called on brand, then pointed at Braun as the enemies-to-lovers one. Braun agreed twice over.

“For sure, for sure.”

Four weeks to learn rowing

None of them knew the sport going in. Martineau said the precision, coordination, and teamwork blew her away once real coaches got involved.

Sam tipped the boat six times

Clark nominated Braun as the best real-life rower. Braun countered that when they swapped seats in pairs, he dumped them into the water repeatedly.

“I tipped the boat like six times, and we kept falling into the water.”

Eight boys, one voice

Braun said the coxswain job takes a specific kind of person, and credited Martineau's presence for actually controlling a boat full of teenage rowers.

“It really takes a special person to gather eight boys in a boat.”

Advice for their own characters

Martineau would tell Teagan it's okay to make mistakes. Clark would say trust the process. Braun would tell Josh to breathe and drop the pressure.

“You don't have to have it all together right now.”