Summer House Reunion Part 2

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Today we learn some unsurprising news - West seems to be useless in almost every area of his life - he can’t even use a screwdriver. Let’s hop back into the Summer House Reunion Part 2.

Amanda is still crying - boo fucking hoo. Lindsay says, ‘YO Amanda - he’s going to do the same fucking shit to you.’ It’s falling on deaf ears. West tries to babble out a sentence about it being out in public who he’s hooked up with etc. Lindsay interjects - West you are a pathy and we believe nothing you say - I assume she means psychopath. Lindsay is us - the audience. She’s our voice and I love it.

KJ says that his father was a womaniser and his mum had to deal with all of his bullshit. This is why he’s hurting so much - because he had to watch it growing up. He says his dad is a habitual liar and he’s seeing a correlation between him and West. Essentially KJ says to West - for you to sit there and be a part of the very serious race conversation that we had over the summer - and then go ahead and do some shit like this AGAIN, is so disrespectful and hurtful.

Andy asks Ciara about the race conversation. She says it’s important, if she’s going to have white friends, that she have open and honest conversations with them. She doesn’t want to sugar coat things anymore, nor should she have to. She also says that politically there are more layers for black people and it’s necessary to discuss those and for people to be aware. They talk about the fact that West said at that conversation that ‘he sees her way more now.’ Ciara says she believed him at the time but not now. She thinks Amanda and West were using buzzwords to satiate her and tell her what she needed to hear. Which is spot on - not one time when one of those demons said ‘I see you’ to her did it seem believable.

Amanda tries to say that everything she’s said and felt was 100% authentic. She says this has hurt me a lot. Ciara says no - it hasn’t - you motherfuckers have been galavanting all over town. Andy wants to know why West would be different with Amanda, given his lack of commitment to anyone else. She says we’ve had conversations privately about what it could look like. Lindsay and Mia want to know what these conversations look like - what did they discuss exactly. Amanda doesn’t want to share - which is basically another fuck you. She says she was embarrassed to say she has feelings for West to Ciara. Mia says, ‘I mean, yeah that is embarrassing.’

Cue Amanda playing the victim and exiting to go ball her eyes out. Everyone is wondering whether West is going to go after her. He’s apparently more concerned whether Andy has more questions for him - like the narcissist that he is. Of course he has more questions for you, ya dummy - but this woman blew up her life for you. The least you could do is go and comfort her. Kyle tries to say if we’re not going to let Amanda speak, basically this will keep happening. To which Ciara says, ‘you roll around in the mud and you’re gonna get dirty.’ Lindsay says, ‘I’ve taken it from everyone at the reunion year after fucking year - did I ever run away? NO.’

Only after Kyle says, ‘you should go and see if she’s ok,’ does West actually manage to move. He sluggishly gets up and meanders off. Kyle feels like he’s in a parallel universe. He says I almost go up to go after her. Lindsay says she did too. Mia is all NOPE - no fucking way I’m going after her - which is a LOL. In their dressing room West says, ‘I came to make sure you’re all good.’ What he really meant to say was, ‘the people bullied me to come see you.’ Then he says, ‘if you have to cry on stage, cry on stage.’ Again, what he meant to say was, ‘if you cry onstage, you’ll get more of a victim edit.’

Kyle is still trying to get the people to understand that Amanda is struggling. Ciara says, ‘she’s fucking my ex.’ Also Amanda is rolling her eyes and acting like a victim. Kyle basically tells her to cool her jets. And I’m over here like, if this fucking bitch was rolling her eyes after screwing me over, I would not be calmly seated, Sir. I would be straight in her face wanting to know what all of the exasperation is about. To me, Ciara is being as chill as a fucking cucumber - kudos to her for that. She’s a better woman than I would be in that situation.

West tentatively comes back onto the stage. Amanda is apparently taking a beat, so it’s break time. Everyone gathers around Kyle to check on him. They huddle up and start discussing the lies that West has been keeping. Kyle wants to make these the topic of conversation, one of them being that West has had an exclusive relationship since February 2025 with Meija. They say Amanda is perfect in West’s mind because she’s in the middle of a breakup, so she’s emotionally unavailable.

After the break Dara joins the party. She looks beautiful, but I do feel a little sad seeing her because I’ve heard that her and KJ have broken up. Someone who hasn’t yet rejoined the party is Amanda. I guess she’s still balling her eyes out - such BS. Anyway, Andy says Dara has a unique perspective on West because she’s dated him and been friends with him. He wants to know her thoughts. She says, ‘this is not the relationship you’re going to stand up for, you want everyone to like you but you treat women as if they’re expendable.’

The people want to know where the woman of the hour is. Kyle says he’s worried about her and everyone wants him to go get her. He says, ‘how much more awkward could this get.’ Jesse and Carl are basically chanting, ‘let’s get weird, let’s get weird!’ and off Kyle goes to drag his mopey ex-wife back on stage - good times. Oop - no, Andy has just had confirmation she’s on her way back. Kyle is thanking his lucky stars.

Ben is telling Andy about his trip back home with Sabrina. He talks about his father, who seems like a toxic asshole, which I’ve talked about in past episodes, and how he’s had a fractured relationship with him for a long time. He hasn’t hugged him since he was 19. Ben says that Sabrina made it a point to hug his dad morning, noon and night, which honestly tracks pretty hard - she seems like a hugger. But I guess it worked because his dad hugged him when they left Australia - a step in the right direction at least.

Amanda makes it back on stage. Lindsay’s face really is like a picture that says a thousand words. She gives the most epic stank-eye I think I’ve ever witnessed. Andy wants Dara to reiterate what she said in Amanda’s absence. She says, ‘It’s the West show - it’s always gonna be the West show. He wants to be liked and he doesn’t treat women with any kind of respect.’ She gives us the line of the episode: ‘He’s looking for someone to mould and fold, without question or complaint.’

These are things we obviously already know, but I respect Dara coming on and saying it straight, even if Amanda’s delusional ass doesn’t receive it. Andy asks Jesse if his song about being in love with his best friend was about Ciara. To which he responds, ‘no.’ Andy then says, ‘Tatiana from East LA wants to know if you wrote that song about West and Amanda?’ Good one, Tatiana! Ciara says, ‘well they can play it at their wedding now so it’s perfect,’ to which Amanda gives yet another smuggy-ass, smirky ‘Kay.’ Ugh, such gross behaviour.

Jesse gets emotional about his musical career and ambitions. Kyle talks about how it can be hard to put yourself out there in other ways when you’re on a reality show. And while I absolutely cannot stand his music, I would never troll someone online for pursuing something they’re passionate about.

Andy brings up the rekindling of Lindsay and Carl’s friendship and they have the biggest smiles on their faces - so cute. When Lindsay was talking about how proud she is of Carl and how he is the version of himself he was always supposed to be, I welled up. I want them to continue to big each other up - I love it.

They discuss the ‘Carl’s a Mess’ Uber Eats ad. Andy wants to know how Amanda feels about Lindsay and Carl monetising the situation. Amanda says she would never do that to any of them. Which is the biggest crock of shit we’ve all heard. She did a fucking Buffalo Wild Wings ad to profit off of her own breakup. GET YOUR SHIT TOGETHER AMANDA. Put the pills down and wake the fuck up!

This is giving me flashbacks to Scandoval, when Tom Sandoval acted all butt hurt when people made money from that situation. To which I say - you’re affecting everyone else with your shitty ass behaviour. They may as well get a fucking pay cheque out of it. The nerve!

Andy and the gang are discussing the issues between Carl and Kyle over the summer. Andy wants to know what possessed West to move his seat over to Amanda when Kyle said ‘fuck you’ to her. West gives his pursed-lipped I’m just a big old doofus look and says, ‘I wanted Amanda to know I had her back when Kyle was being a dickhead.’ And everyone watching responds - why the fuck don’t you have her back now then!

All I can think about is the St Mark’s episode of Broad City, where a guy pretending to be homeless steals Abbi’s bag and they follow him back to his house - sorry, his Mum’s house. The Mum just calls him loser over and over again.

They’re discussing the Cartier watch that Kyle gifted Amanda and Amanda starts weirdly biting her finger. Andy looks sketched the fuck out by this behaviour. Is she biting it to see if she still feels anything? If she can still feel pain? Does she think she’s in some kind of nightmare and she’s trying to pinch herself out of it? Who knows.

And we’re back talking about Amanda and Kyle’s shitty relationship. Excuse me while I go find a brick wall to bash my head against. I absolutely cannot anymore. Maybe that’s why I can’t bring myself to get into In The City. They’re going back and forth about the infamous fan’s house sleepover and I see West wistfully looking off into the distance. He’s trying to count all of the fan’s houses he’s slept over at.

Everyone is trying to point out the hypocrisy of Amanda’s behaviour. She hated going out with Kyle and didn’t want to be with someone who likes to party a lot, yet here she is with West - the biggest party douchebag of all time. Too bad it’s all falling on deaf ears. Amanda is acting like a Bambi-eyed bitch. Can someone tap Lala into this reunion please?

I really want to know how long it’s going to take for West to start a party-forward side hustle to get away from Amanda. Apparently Kyle made out with Sally from Southern Charm the night of the Summer House premiere. Sally is such a beautiful girl. I wish she would stop pining after all of the dickhead men on Bravo. Her picker is way off. She, along with Amanda, also needs to go to the school of friendship. Ciara would like to point out that she let Amanda know about the make-out immediately - and that’s good friend behaviour.

They cut for lunch and we see Ciara FaceTime West’s ex Meija. She’s giving her a blow by blow of what’s happening. She says they don’t even look like they like each other up there, which is facts. In West and Amanda’s room, he says to Amanda, ‘I know Ciara gets under your skin, and that’s like her goal.’ UHHHHHHH excuse me???

That just goes to show what West has been thinking of Ciara this whole time. He doesn’t like her - he never has if you ask me. He’s used her, and he thinks Ciara is the one to blame for all the vitriol that’s being aimed at them. NO DICKHEADS - it’s all because of your own shitty ass behaviour. I would love to know what it takes to be so fucking delusional.

Back with Meija, Kyle comes in and asks when they were exclusive from. She says they were dating all of last summer. Then Ciara says, ‘you built all of the furniture in his house.’ And I’m like WTF - what the hell does she mean she built the furniture in his house??? I need this explained immediately.

I mean let’s be honest - if it was flat packs, we know West couldn’t do that shit. But if she’s giving him handmade furniture, I’m gonna need Meija to invoice that shit. You know what - even if it was Ikea furniture, still invoice him for your time. Invoice him for the entirety of your relationship! Fuck it!

The episode ends with Meija saying that West didn’t want to be public about the relationship because apparently he would get fired from the show. Kyle says that’s absolute BS.

One more part to go - I have Summer House fatigue. Let’s hope Part 3 is just everyone standing in a circle around West holding rocks - à la Handmaid’s Tale.

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