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Summer House<\/a><\/p>\n Reunion Part 2<\/p>\n \n Season 10<\/p>\n Episode 18\n <\/p>\n \n Editor\u2019s Rating<\/p>\n 4 stars<\/p>\n ****\n <\/p>\n \n Photo: Clifton Prescod\/Bravo\n <\/p>\n If the first part of this reunion<\/a> was about Ciara\u2019s anger and Amanda\u2019s not-very-great reaction to it, then the second part of this reunion is all about West, who he really is as a person, and if anyone truly knows him. It\u2019s unclear. What we do know for sure is that his strategy so far at this reunion is worse than Teresa Giudice singing \u201cOne Kiss.\u201d<\/a> (That\u2019s a deep cut in celebration of Dua Lipa\u2019s wedding<\/a>.) It seems like his intent is to sit there like a crumpled Kleenex found at the bottom of your Nana\u2019s purse and not say much. Seriously, Levi said more at this reunion, and the only sentence she uttered was, \u201cThank you for having me, Andy,\u201d as she slunk back into an obscurity from which she will never leave.<\/p>\n Ironically, everything West says is pretty correct. When Amanda skulks off to cry in her dressing room, everyone shouts for him to go after her. He says that if he does that, they will just say that they both walked off and couldn\u2019t take it. He\u2019s right. Everyone on those couches is so justifiably angry at both him and Amanda that no matter what they do, the group is going to be unhappy with his performance, so he might as well do what he wants and not back up the woman taking all the heat for him. West apologizes for making fun of the Cartier watch that Kyle gave to Amanda, but he also tells Kyle that the way he spoke to Amanda this summer, and in general, is not the way a person should speak to anyone. Again, not wrong, even with everything that happened with Amanda since then. And, well, that\u2019s all he says. As Amanda takes another drubbing, as he takes another drubbing, he just sits there like a Nerf ball, taking hit after hit and not moving, reacting, or even indenting a tiny little bit.<\/p>\n When they break for lunch at the end of the episode, Amanda asks West if he should jump in more. Yes. Yes, he should. This is just a replay of the reunion two seasons ago, where Ciara and everyone else came for him, and he let them control the narrative. This time it\u2019s happening again, and, man, is the narrative a lot worse. We still have so little idea what West was thinking, how and why he got into this, and where he sees it going. The story is others to tell, and the story they\u2019re telling about West is not a particularly good one.<\/p>\n There are two things in particular I\u2019d like to draw attention to. The first is when Dara comes on stage, and Andy asks Dara how she feels about West, given that she\u2019s dated him, been friends with him, and seen how he\u2019s acted in this whole situation. At first, she says that he always wants to be liked and sees women as \u201cexpendable.\u201d He agrees with this statement. Okay, admitting you have a problem is the first step, but, girl, there are 11 other steps. What else are you going to do about it? If you know that you treat women as expendable, how are you going to rectify that, because the person who always champions Amanda\u2019s feelings, who cares about KJ\u2019s mental health, who wants to support his friends, is not the kind of person who would treat women as expendable.<\/p>\n Amanda is away when Dara makes that first statement, so when she returns to the stage, Andy asks Dara if there\u2019s anything she wants Amanda to hear, and she expounds on her previous statement. Here it is, in full, because it\u2019s a doozy. \u201cThe biggest pattern in his life is that it is the West show and it will always be the West show, and the biggest concern of his, consistently, is being well-liked and well-received, and he doesn\u2019t prioritize treating the women he is linked with romantically as he does anyone else in his life. I foresee him, for a long time, wanting someone to mold and fold and fit into his life without excuse or complaint, and it is up to you to decide what is worth breaking, sacrificing, and losing for that kind of person.\u201d Okay. Dara wins. That\u2019s it. Sums it up perfectly.<\/p>\n This leads to a line of questioning about Amanda going from one dominant personality to another dominant personality, and just how wise it is. Kyle says that West is just like him, but younger and on steroids. He\u2019s the life of the party, he\u2019s a flirt, he lights up every room, he likes to drink and stay out. Just like with Kyle, Amanda can coast in his wake. The past few seasons have all been about Amanda wanting to open up and find her own voice, but here her voice is once again getting lost in the roar of someone else. Maybe that\u2019s what she\u2019s looking for. Maybe what she really wants is to be smaller, to disappear, to \u201cmold and fold and fit\u201d into someone else\u2019s life rather than having one of her own. Maybe, like Ciara said at the end of the last episode, that makes them the perfect match.<\/p>\n Many on the couches point out that Amanda is now going out at all hours with West, when that is exactly what she used to complain about with her husband. Kyle says that she always said she wanted to go out less, have a family, get a house in the suburbs, and settle down, and Amanda is now doing the exact opposite. \u201cBut I\u2019m single!\u201d she shouts as all of America rolls their eyes. The whole group says she hates going out. Then she says the thing that probably hurts Kyle the most. \u201cI don\u2019t hate going out, I hate going out with him.\u201d She might as well have kicked him in the balls, ripped them off, put them in a blender, and then fed them to the Wirkus Twins because if there is one thing Kyle can\u2019t handle, it\u2019s that he\u2019s not fun to party with.<\/p>\n But she makes some valid points. He would get blacked out drunk, he never wanted to leave the party, he would get belligerent and yell at her \u2014 she says that he wasn\u2019t a very good time. Then we get some more revelations about Kyle and Amanda\u2019s relationship and their breakup. She says that she decided it was over New Year\u2019s Day because she was supposed to go out with Kyle and didn\u2019t, and he ended up at a hotel in Hoboken at 8 a.m. without her, and she didn\u2019t want to deal with it anymore. The worst part about this story is Hoboken. Kyle, my man, if you can\u2019t keep it in your pants, at least keep it in the five boroughs.<\/p>\n Then, just how much Kyle was cheating becomes an issue. She says that he \u201cstepped out on the marriage\u201d and that he made out with other women or was \u201cinappropriate,\u201d which meant that he was getting drunk and asking other women to make out. He says that he did make out, but \u201cmaking out isn\u2019t fully cheating.\u201d Oh, Kyle, I wish you were gay because this excuse would totally fly in about 90 percent of gay dude households. However, it flies in about 0 percent of heterosexual households. But Kyle insists that he never slept with anyone else, and Amanda seems to back that up by never asserting that he did. She says there were DMs and rumors constantly, but Carl, who was with him partying for many of those years, says he never witnessed Kyle doing anything that would jeopardize their relationship.<\/p>\n What they both agree on is that they didn\u2019t have sex for four years. Four years! They did not bang even once after walking down the aisle. Not once. In the Catholic church, they could have annulled this entire union. I have joked in the past that if you are married and haven\u2019t had sex in a year, that your marriage is open, whether you like it or not. If your partner isn\u2019t going to fuck you, then you have the right to go out and find someone else. That is a joke, but also, is it? If Kyle wasn\u2019t getting anything at home, how upset can she be that he was trying to get some physical affection from someone else? Yes, it\u2019s a bit of a chicken or egg situation, that maybe Amanda couldn\u2019t be with him physically because he made out with another girl when they were engaged. But then why marry him in the first place? Did she think it was just going to disappear? Yes, no one deserves to be cheated on, and Kyle could have been better about obeying the rules, but four years?<\/p>\n Since the breakup, Kyle has been making out with all sorts of Bravolebs, including his interlude with Meghan King Edmonds, where he was \u201con his tippies\u201d as Lindsay hilariously put it, and also Salley Carson from Southern Charm<\/a>. Someone needs to tell both Salley and her extraneous E to get the hell off my imaginary husband. We don\u2019t need her thirst infiltrating its third Bravo show. (Yeah, she was on Southern Hospitality too, which you should really be watching<\/a>.)<\/p>\n There are some non-Kymanda and Cest (Wiara?) things to talk about, but most of them get the short shrift. Jesse\u2019s music career is going well, even though people online make fun of him. Carl and Lindsay are in a good place, even though Amanda is hurt that they monetized her scandal to make some branded content. Soft Bar is thriving, and Kyle and Carl are over their rift. Ben says a few things, and I put my hands up to my ears and shout, \u201cLALALALALA, I can\u2019t hear you,\u201d until he\u2019s done talking.<\/p>\n But really, the focus is mostly on the whole scandal and, more specifically, on West. Besides Dara\u2019s statement, what TJ says about his own father sheds some light on West. TJ says his father was also the kind of guy who both wanted everyone to like him but also wanted to sleep around. That led him to lie about all sorts of things and \u201cdestroy their family.\u201d West seems to have all of those impulses, and that makes him seem like so much more of a type, someone who just wants everything to be fun and has enough charisma that he can charm nearly everyone, but being a part of that is also detrimental to those closest to him.<\/p>\n At one point, early in this episode, Andy points out that Amanda was with Ciara when she was dealing with West\u2019s inability to commit and asks why she thinks it will be different now. She says it\u2019s because of the private conversations that they\u2019ve had that made her believe that this is something special. But how many of those conversations has he had with all of these women? Did he tell Dara the same thing? Did he say that to Ciara the second time around? The question is, why does Amanda believe it, or rather, why is West willing to be with Amanda over those other people? Maybe it\u2019s both of those questions at the same time, and you can\u2019t answer one without the other.<\/p>\n As they retire for their lunch break, Ciara goes back into her dressing room and gets Meija, the woman that West was dating, on FaceTime. Kyle joins the conversation, too. We learned earlier in the hour that Kyle reached out to her to compare notes about what was going on with her and West, and that he introduced her to Ciara. The story that Meija tells is also quite damning. She says that she and West started dating exclusively in February and that she was staying in his house in New York every weekend they were filming in the Hamptons. As we saw him flirting with Ciara and trying to rekindle, he was keeping her stashed in New York to get with as soon as he returned. He said that their relationship was \u201chooking up every once in a while,\u201d but this sounds like a lot more. Both Kyle and Ciara believe that and claim they have the receipts to prove it.<\/p>\n Meija says the reason that West kept her secret was that he said he would get fired from the show for dating someone who wasn\u2019t in the Bravosphere. Kyle says that it\u2019s bullshit, and history is on his side. Take Danielle, for instance, who dated Robert and a number of guys who barely appeared during her time on the show. Lindsay brought Stravy into the house and never made him a sandwich. There are past precedents for how that is not true. He also said he was trying to protect her from scrutiny because the fans would pit her against Ciara and would probably not like her, which, well, that\u2019s true. But instead, what he\u2019s going to do is sleep with someone on the show who was one of her best friends, thereby just transferring that hate to Amanda? It seems like a very convenient excuse so that he could have a secret girlfriend and continue sleeping with whomever he wanted because every lady in every sports bar in America thinks he\u2019s single.<\/p>\n In their own dressing room, Amanda says, \u201cIt\u2019s really frustrating. They\u2019re just making me feel really fucking stupid for trusting you.\u201d But are they making her feel like that, or is she just feeling like that based on the evidence? There are now three women \u2014 Ciara, Dara, and Meija (though Amanda hasn\u2019t heard her story) \u2014 saying the exact same thing about West: he isn\u2019t honest about his feelings, he\u2019s hiding things, he\u2019s being disrespectful to them, and he dropped them as soon as things got hard. But when he tells her she\u2019s different, she believes it. Still, she can hear what these women are saying, two of whom are or were her friends. If and when this does end, she will absolutely feel really fucking stupid for trusting him.<\/p>\n Earlier, when Andy asked Amanda why she thought it would be different with her and West, she said, \u201cI was going to have to be honest with Ciara no matter what. I felt embarrassed to say that I have feelings for and have kissed West and that he\u2019s seeing someone else.\u201d It was embarrassing to say it, but it should have been more embarrassing to do it. It should have been so embarrassing to stop her from kissing him to admit those feelings and not act on it because now, well, it\u2019s that much worse, it\u2019s that much more embarrassing, and if it ends the same way it ended with those other women, the worstness will be compounded exponentially. Mia, being perfect once again, tells her, \u201cYeah, it\u2019s embarrassing,\u201d but the future looks even worse. 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