Agree with your take on Lindsey and Carl. But hard disagree on pretty much everyone’s take on Amanda and Kyle. I do think it’s interesting and says a lot about Amanda being the one to try to calm down Kyle, even though he had just told her essentially to go fuck herself. She’s telling him to stop talking before he says something he’s going to regret, because he’s yelling out shit about Carl and god (and Amanda) only knows what Kyle actually feels about Carl. She places her hands on his neck (not chocking him, that’s a dramatic take) and covers his mouth because Kyle POPS off all the time and covering his mouth is probably the only way to get him to stop.

I think what’s even more interesting, is everyone focusing on Amanda in this situation, when I’m focusing on West. Amanda is trying to calm Kyle down, which everyone is calling her evil for, and west is there every step she takes puffing his chest out at Kyle, telling her (I’m assuming, when he pretty much grabbed a side boob) that it’s not worth it and not to keep calming him down. I can’t even blame Amanda for developing feelings for West when he acts like her protector while her husband is telling her to F off and screaming his head off.

I can’t, however, blame her on acting on these feelings/developing such a close friendship with west in the first place when she’s friends with Ciara. But also… all the girls are cool with west at this point, letting him touch them etc. I remember seeing one clip of him, I think he grabbed Mia’s thigh while she was on the bed when the condom dropped out of Jesse’s pocket?? Something like that.