Summer House 2/29/24

Kyle and Amanda. It’s hard for me to decide who’s in the wrong. Technically they both can be, I know. My tendency is to usually take the woman’s side, because I think all men suck. I think I can be objective, though because I do see some things in Amanda that would be frustrating for Kyle.

I think they’re both kind of immature for their ages. Amanda is a spoiled only child, who’s gotten this far in life doing the bare minimum to get by.

Kyle is a hard worker who built a business from scratch, no one handed it to him, but he likes to play hard too. .

It’s not the same as Crystal on Beverly Hills, if you watch that, claiming she ‘built’ a one hundred million dollar company from scratch, yet she does NOTHING all day, and it’s never been mentioned until this season, and it’s her third. All you her from Kyle, is Loverboy Loverboy Loverboy. Crystal has not once mentioned CoCo water.

He gets stupid drunk frequently, unless it’s just during filming, but I don’t think so.

I mentioned this last week, he shouldn’t be bitching to Paige about Amanda. I don’t know why she doesn’t put a halt to that. Or Paige should. Amanda seems to think it’s fine, she even said “as he should” when Paige let her know he ‘confides’ in her. I don’t know if it’s actually confiding, if Paige just runs and tells her what he says. I’m assuming that is the reason he does it. It’s a weird way for a married couple to communicate. But, like I said, they’re both immature.

Everything else he does annoys her, but this is okay?

I don’t thik he’s ‘projecting’ as she claims in her yap. I think he’s literally concerned because she’s so fucking lazy. He foresees himself running the business, doing all of the household duties, taking care of kids and dogs, while Amanda lies on the couch crying that she’s sad and overwhelmed. I can see how that’s frustrating. I’m not saying she would be a bad mom per se, I’m just saying she’s lazy and unmotivated. She says she’s always wanted to have kids and be a mom. I believe that she believes that, I just question if she understands how much work kids are.

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Ciara rides the shark for 22 seconds. West, the ‘I grew up on a ranch’ dude, rides it for negative two seconds. Maybe he was over confident, or drunk.

Danielle’s already trying to reel in a guy. If this girl says one more fucking time, “I’m focusing on fun. I’m going to have fun, I just want to have fun.”

She’s not going to have any fun, that’s obvious.

Jesse makes a little bit of an aggressively flirty comment to Paige. She looks baffled that he would dare. But she was being kind of low-key flirty with him too, so of course he jumps in to see if he can push it.

You do kind of see Amanda’s annoyance with Kyle who whined about them not spending time together and he’s making no effort to interact with her at this stupid party.

Jesse jokes about being into Paige with Kyle. In his yap he brags he gets the chicks, and if he steals your chick, so be it. So, just wondering, is this who she supposedly cheated on Craig with??

Kyle remembers he has a wife, and inquires as to her whereabouts, and of course she’s in the house bitching to Paige about him.

I definitely feel the “can we just exist, and stop complaining??” Like why oh why do (some) dudes feel the need to always complain about EVERYTHING. ‘Omg you didn’t do this, you didn’t do that …’ DOES get fucking annoying.

Danielle continues to ‘just have fun’ with this random dude. In ten minutes she’ll be sleeping with him, and expecting a marriage proposal.

Ciara thinks the oven is a microwave.

“This kitchen is so high-tech for no fucking reason.”

Well it is like a 4 million dollar house in the Hamptons. Does she seriously think that this house sits empty the other nine months of the year, and no one is ever in it, that MIGHT want to use the kitchen, to like cook food??

I’m sorry but that’s embarrassing to not know the difference between a microwave and an oven.

I feel like if Jesse is into Paige, West should feel pretty safe that he’s not going to be into Ciara. But who knows, maybe he’s just trying to create conflict. The other new dudes were one and done, because they failed to bring any drama. That’s what I’m assuming.

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Amanda wakes up with a huge ‘tude, and sounds like Dorothy as she keeps repeating “I want to go home…” for some reason. She sounds like a child.

This is the adult you become when you’re babied all your life.

I can see Kyle’s frustration with her, as she continues to piss and moan to him about going home asap. He walks in the kitchen looking defeated.

Buuuuut I can see her frustration, that he’s bitching to everyone about her and not happy with anything she does. Buuuuuut she is very low energy, and that’s frustrating for him because he’s the opposite. And why didn’t she address that with him in the bedroom instead of just repeating ‘I want to go home.’ That’s bad communication. The dude has no clue why she’s pissed off, because she didn’t tell him why she’s pissed off.

Wah wah wah, Carl and Lindsay will be house attendees the following weekend.

Paige and Ciara are on cleanup detail like champs, thanks to that viewer at the reunion that called this shit out. I’m sure everyone in the house is grateful to that person!

Ciara claims to have no interest whatsoever in West, as he dives into the pool like a ten-year-old would do, trying to impress her. Why is HE not helping exactly? In fact, none of the dudes are helping.

What’s with Danielle and these weird office sweaters? It’s July.

She’s already getting on my last nerve. So is Gabby, every time she speaks. I do feel sorry for her though, that she drew the short straw, and is stuck being Lindsay’s friend.

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Carl and Lindsay scene in the city. He tries to make a joke about calling her ‘dude’ instead of ‘babe’ when they get to the house. Lindsay can’t laugh, and that is simply because she has NO sense of humor.

She’s another one that always looks constipated. They should have her and Wendy from Potomac team up and do a laxative commercial.

They have a weird convo, and you can tell Carl is having reservations at this point. He grits his teeth when she talks about how they’re getting married in a few months and they should whoop it up this summer because she may be pregnant next year. I feel like when she says that, she means she wants to get wasted, which has to be hard on Carl.

I don’t know what he was thinking getting involved with this chick. She’s fucking insane.

Lindsay surprisingly seems to want to work things out with Danielle.

Ciara has a modeling gig. Or is she just applying for a modeling gig? She calls herself ‘short.’ I guess for a model she’s short. We always see her next to tiny Paige, so the comes off as taller than she is.

I think ‘Summer House’ has become her job now. She shit canned nursing AND modeling. If I were her, I would keep up with these professions, because she’s not that great of a ‘reality star.’ She has kind of a dry personality, and I’m surprised she’s still around, actually. She strikes me as lazy too.

In other words, don’t quit your day job, Ciara.

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Amanda and Kyle have a date. He immediately apologizes to her. That’s sweet of him. He shouldn’t be walking around complaining about her to her friends. It’s disrespectful. If you have that many problems with her, then why are you with her? He knew she was lazy and unmotivated when he married her. It seems to me she has no interest in working for Loverboy at this point. And he doesn’t want to cut her loose, because then he’s really going to be annoyed with her doing nothing, as opposed to almost nothing.

If we recall, she didn’t even want to be involved in wedding planning. He was begging her to participate. Like when does that ever happen? Remember the florist got so annoyed with them, that she bailed, and it was Kyle feverishly researching a new florist on their way to dinner, while Amanda sat there in her own fucking world?

My point is, he shouldn’t be shocked.

He’s pretty blunt when he’s begging her to take on more responsibilities, with the business and the household, so he’s not so overwhelmed.

I feel like that comment went right over her head. Ultimately he says he doesn’t want her sad and depressed, and he wants her to be happy.

HUH. Can we imagine that. A dude that doesn’t ENJOY seeing his partner beaten down, crying and on the defense. WOW. WHO KNEW.

She says she’ll try to be more productive. I don’t think she will.

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Weekend time…

What the fuck is wrong with Danielle? “Remind me again why you’re bringing the dogs this weekend?“

Fuck off Danielle. Because she wants to bring her fucking dogs. These dogs are like so fucking well-behaved. They’re better behaved than she is for crissakes. They don’t even bark, unlike most of the people in the house.

Amanda comes off like she’s the main caretaker of the dogs, but Kyle’s face sort of says otherwise.

In the last week, West and Jesse are suddenly BFF’s when they didn’t even know each other previously. I think it’s cute that they’re friends, but that was fast. I guess West got over his obsession and extreme envy of Jesse’s tallness.

Everyone is tense about Carl and Lindsay’s arrival. Danielle again, and the ‘fun’ thing. Wait, I’m not sure. Is she wanting to have fun??

Well the moment we’ve all been waiting for. Carl and Lindsay arrive with steak and lobster in tow. A sort of peace treaty perhaps? No one will notice what a twat Lindsay is if they’re eating steak and lobster?

Lindsay delivers awkward hugs as she pretends to care about the air fryer working. She immediately pours a large glass of wine and guzzles it. No one’s really talking to her. I feel so bad for people like her. Wouldn’t it be so much easier to just be a decent fucking person. That’s rhetorical.

You can already tell this is going to be bad. She is NOT a fun drunk, let’s just say.

She’s hoping for “not a lot of conflict, because Carl does not like conflict.”

As most normal people do not, Lindsay.

West makes a very crucial error of trying to have a civil adult convo with her about the room situation. He offers the room he has been using, to her if she wants it, and talks about it being hot.

In true cunty Lindsay fashion, this poor guy is being so cordial and polite to her, and she lips off, “yeah I know, the house, I’ve been here for many years.”

Carl looks immediately humiliated, that she would be already acting like this towards the new guy.

He was trying too hard to be be super nice and accommodating to her, and she took that as weakness and had to throw her weight around. The poor guy was so anxious talking to her, he was all flushed and red.

She storms out of the kitchen demanding that she have a bathroom.

Okay, we’re getting off to not a great start.

Lindsay seems miffed about the room.

I’m going to make another wardrobe comment. Why are the girls so dressed up to eat dinner at the house? The look cute, except for Danielle, who misses the mark as usual.

Lindsay’s inside as everyone assembles for dinner outside, chugging more wine.

I feel like it would have made more sense to have an edible and mellow out, not drink a ton of booze, which tends to make you more agitated. It’s not like she has one or two.

Jesse Solomon is a two time cancer survivor, he shares. Bravo to him!

They head out, and Lindsay is already trashed.

So she lasted an entire hour. She makes Gabby come back to the house with her, since she and Carl got into an argument in the car on the way.

So take into account, she’s drunk, Not tipsy, but drunk. This interaction was not filmed, I guess since it was in the Lyft. She tells Carl in the car she hopes it’s not a thing that she’s riding with him and the guys, as opposed to the girls in the other vehicle. Which of course is stupid. As if they gave a shit, and it’s not that weird, that she would ride with Carl. It was a dumb drunken paranoid concern to begin with, and Carl was probably annoyed that she’s shitfaced already. Keep in mind he’s a recovered alcoholic. I think she’s an unrecovered alcoholic.

“It’s not that deep, it’s fine” he tells her. Because it’s NOT that deep, and it was fine. I’m sure he did say it in a snarky way, and she went nuts.

The guys that were in the car, and I really think if Carl did something wrong they would acknowledge that, but they all agreed she went from zero to one hundred in a split second and lost her shit. for no reason.

The girls say she was freaking out at the club and calling him mean and ‘on something.’

I really doubt he acted like ‘Carl on cocaine.’ We saw last year, he does tend to get a little short with her, and that’s probably what happened. She insists to Gabby that he was ‘not sober.’

She’s all over IG apologizing for her behavior on this episode, and claiming she thought she was having a private conversation with her friend, (with cameras in her face.) and that she’s embarrassed of her behavior, and yadda yadda, that whole bit.

Why can’t she just admit she was drunk and talking nonsense?

Carl texts her a sweet, MATURE ADULT message (not a barrage of like 50 psychotic one-line texts) to talk things out in the morning, which of course isn’t good enough for her. She’s somehow offended by this message,.

She texts back accusing him of not being sober. They sleep separately. Gabby is stuck with her now.

Kyle and Amanda are suddenly all chummy, snuggled up together, gossiping about Carl and Lindsay, That’s funny how that works. They’re probably thinking, okay maybe our relationship isn’t THAT bad. They fall asleep holding hands. Maybe their marriage would be better if they follow Carl and Lindsay around all day.

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Lindsay comes into their room in the morning bringing a bottle of water as a peace offering, or like a fuck you, you need this too, She gets in bed with him, and they bicker back and forth, as she doubles down on him being soooo mean, she did nothing wrong, and he may have been on something.

They literally just GOT HERE. This is insane. He really does try to reason with her. You can’t reason with these people. The more you make sense, the more they tell you how you’re making no sense, and it’s so fucking frustrating.

It’s all a game to them. She succeeded in pissing him off by again accusing him of not being sober the previous night, and then this: “Why are you yelling?”

He leaves the room to go for a run.