The Southern themed dinner gets underway. Ciara calls the boys in from the balcony like a mom calling her kids in for dinner.
I loved the Ciara and Lindsay duo working hard in the kitchen to feed everyone.
It’s nice to see Lindsay acting normal and likable for one thing, which she occasionally does, and also to see them getting along. I think I said this before but fuck it, I’m saying it again, I love seeing the girls so compatible and supportive of each other, and no mean girl bitchy bullshit and drama. I think Lindsay is trying really hard to be nice to the girls in the house this season.
You know none of them can really stand Lindsay, but they’re all rallying and pretending that they do.
You also know secretly that they’re loving her and Carl’s relationship being in the can. But I like how no one is saying it, and seeming to really care.
Jesse Solomon says he had “3 ½ dates” that week when asked, with four different girls. The half? Oh that was because he cooked dinner at his apartment. He didn’t really elaborate on that, and why he called this particular one ‘a half’ and that’s fine, but my hunch is that he didn’t consider it a date because it didn’t end in sex. Just judging by some undertones I’m picking up on when he talks about women.
So he slept with three different women in a week. Euwwww. No wonder the fourth passed. I hope there was protection being used. I know some people think this is cute and hot, but it’s actually gross.
I really think Paige is a little intrigued by him, and you can’t tell me she’s not.
Well speaking of that, Kyle gets messy. You know we ARE seeing the dudes contributing more lately to the Bravo messiness.
With Craig at the table, he asks Jesse if he wants to rethink how hard he was hitting on Paige since she shot down his ‘I want the girl to order’ thing.
MESSSSSYYYYYYYY.
But Craig takes it well. He’s really trying to not fly off the handle about every little thing. And to be honest, Paige was sort of low-key flirting with him too.
With the way that Kyle and Jesse are looking at each other laughing, it’s giving that this was rehearsed and pre-planned, and Jesse knew full well it was coming.
Perhaps Paige did too, that’s why she presented the “what are you looking for in a girl?” question. Maybe I’m reading too much into it.
Amanda is immediately sulking. Guess she wasn’t in on the joke.
Amanda has no sense of humor. Every single person at the table is laughing. Except Amanda. Craig isn’t even mad. He probably knew it was coming too.
Summer should be fun! Amanda – not fun!!
To be honest, this relationship seems as much in the shitter as Carl and Lindsay’s.
I think Kyle makes her skin crawl. Granted, dudes require a LOT of attention, believe me I know, but she seems not wanting to bother with him at all.
A lot of women would love a guy with a great sense of humor, that doesn’t abuse them and act like a fucktard victim every day, with no morals and no soul.
Not that I’m thinking on anyone in particular there.
What IS this blue area Paige and Amanda always go into? It seems like a separate area off of the bathroom in Paige’s room. She somehow snagged the master this season. I’ve never seen them hang out here before. It always seems to be where Amanda goes to whine and complain. I guess it’s the ‘whine room,’
The happiest couple in the house is Ciara and West, who have been together for like ten minutes. That sounds about right and typical.
Amanda bitches at Kyle like his mother about the Paige comment and literally NO ONE ELSE EVEN CARES.
They bicker. She’s huffing and puffing. I’m so mad he didn’t say “summer should be fun!” I feel like it would’ve broken the ice. No never mind. She has no sense of humor. She would have gotten more pissed.
Instead of Kyle just ignoring her overreaction and stupid attitude, he runs around muttering to the guys defending himself. Dude, they don’t give a shit about you and Amanda’s stupid little fight about nothing. Everyone can see she’s acting like a baby as usual.
Why are all the guys dressed alike? White T-shirts honestly is the best we can do??
I think I might miss the Lindsay and Carl meltdown Friday night special. Amanda and Kyle thing is going on, which is also funny but just not the same as a blacked out inebriated Lindsay screaming about how she most certainly doesn’t have an alcohol problem, and how Carl is on drugs.
Did I speak too soon? Kyle drags Lindsay aside in the nightclub, and proceeds to ask the bartender for a gin floater in his Loverboy or whatever is in the can. Assuming it’s Loverboy and not White Trash Claw.
Also gin is gross.
So very painfully zero-self-awareness Lindsay tells Kyle with a straight face that when she drinks gin, and gin only, she has extreme emotions. Okay Lindsay, it’s only ‘gin’ that makes you do that shit, and not ALL alcohol.
Ya can’t make this shit up. The way Kyle looks at her when she says this.
He’s sort of slurring so it’s funny that he’s getting ready to school Lindsay on her drinking behavior.
Kyle is mainly a fun drunk though so I guess it’s appropriate he’s lecturing her. I think he is trying to help though, and get her to see maybe she should rethink the things that she’s putting out there into the universe when they fight.
Lindsay right off the bat gets pissed that Kyle insinuates Carl is unhappy but sticking with the plan, because he wants to be in a relationship so badly.
He says Carl may be pushing through the red flags, then tries to take that back when he hears how that sounds. She is looking at him so confused.
Kyle either needs to shit or get off the pot here. He’s being brutally honest with her, which she needs to hear, then back pedals when he sees her getting irritated.
Lindsay starts defending herself. Listening to her justify the things she has been saying to him and accusing him of breaking his sobriety (I guess weed doesn’t count) because if she has “one sip of alcohol and has one emotion” (aka 100 sips of alcohol and starts spiraling) it’s a problem.
I wish she could get through her thick fucking head that she should not really be drinking, aside from occasionally a glass of wine, in a new relationship with a newly recovered alcoholic. Their fights seem to boil down to her drinking.
It seems like she doesn’t care about the relationship enough to stop.
“You’re going to yell at me for drinking when I’m not the one that has a problem.” Like I said last week, ‘I know you are, but what am I’ is what she resorts to.
So she’s throwing his alcoholism in his face, even though he’s done the work and he’s now sober?
“If he’s going to question me, I’m going to question him.” The difference is, she probably IS intoxicated when he questions her.
And she does not think she has a problem, at all? So much wrong with this conversation and the things she’s saying. Kyle looks flabbergasted. Certainly he is regretting this decision to attempt to have a productive conversation with her. Well that ends with no manic meltdowns when Kyle decides to just abort the mission.
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Morning – Amanda continues to ignore Kyle. She crawls into bed with Craig and Paige, naturally.
Jesse Solomon gets into bed with Ciara and West. What is going on here? This is weird. It’s innocent but looks bad. Maybe this can be the other half of his fourth date, since there is a bed involved.
Jesse decides to call Carl. As they discuss what time he is arriving, Lindsay who is in the room, makes no effort to say hello to him, and makes a bee line out of the room before he asks.
She heads to the kitchen to clean. So she’d rather clean than talk to her fiance for two minutes.
Paige and Amanda decide they’re going to have ‘the talk’ with Lindsay to tell her it’s okay to not go through with the wedding.
You can just see the change in Lindsay’s attitude now that Carl is arriving. She seems agitated and is obsessively cleaning the kitchen. She seemed really relaxed the previous afternoon/evening.
But having said that, she does seem happy to see him and greets him at the door. We’ll see how this goes. He brought go-carts for this Nascar themed party.
You can tell as Ciara talks to Craig, she’s still bothered and hurt by Austen’s treatment of her last year. I get it. That shit sticks with you. Even if you are over the person, it’s harder to be over the horrible way that they treated you.
Moving on. As usual, Kyle’s themed out costume is the best one. Evil Knievel meets Elvis meets Jeff Spicoli. I added the last part.
Ciara’s is one of those swinging floatie things you see on car lots.
Ughhh she’s so mundane. She said it would be ‘boring’ for her to do sexy instead of this balloon thing, but she promptly ditches it to reveal a very ‘boring’ sexy outfit underneath.
Still boring unless you bring back Carmen. Does she really not know?
Carl and Lindsay are getting along, and the blaring obvious difference is that she is sober.
Man down in their little go-cart whatever race. West gets stabbed by his sunglasses when Kyle shoves him. ‘Nurse’ Ciara gets to care for her man. Poor little guy. Kyle keeps blaming the sunglasses, but maybe he shouldn’t have pushed him. He’s not ten.
He asks her about Austen. She refers to it as really messy, using bad judgment and having a bad judge of character.
Been there, done that.
Paige and Craig discuss this apartment situation and him contributing to the rent should she get a better apartment. She again tells him no. No means no.
Paige and Amanda get Lindsay talking again about Carl and ask if she thinks maybe they did move too fast as they were trying to tell them last season. Well mostly Danielle was saying it. And I don’t think they were moving THAT fast.
I think the main issue is that it was Lindsay, and that’s truly what they were concerned about.
Simultaneous convo with Carl and the guys and he talks about going to anger management classes. We haven’t really seen him uncontrollably angry, but then again we haven’t been privy to the two ‘Lyft’ arguments. I think he was getting pissy with her. But there’s a difference between that, and flying into a rage, and throwing things, saying awful hurtful things and dropping threats to go fuck the skanky town ho.
“It feels very soon to be getting married given the complications” are Jesse Solomon’s words of wisdom. Carl’s probably getting annoyed with this kid’s input, that he barely knows. Even though it is accurate.
Paige’s to Lindsay are – “are you sure because it’s a lot easier to call it off or postpone it then get divorced in two months.”
