was supposed to be the everyday woman and moral compass of the show. Then they have her engage in an affair with the best man without so much as a moment of reconsideration. It makes her as morally corrupt as the rich people the writers want the audience to hate and it undermined the whole character. But I honestly don’t think the writers realized this because Gen Z hookup culture no longer rates any moral scrutiny in the eyes of Hollywood writers
shareWas she supposed to be the moral compass? Right off the bat, the family complained about how she's always scantily clad. The character also has roaming eyes, well roaming eyes for Shooter.
shareShe’s the only character the writers portray as having a conscience, as having profound grief over Merritt’s death, as genuinely assisting the police unconnected to ulterior motives, as being humble with a middle class family compared to the insufferable blue blood elites. They show her reacting with outrage and repugnance to the Tag / Merritt affair only to later portray her in a more corrupt betrayal of her fiancé with the best man on the eve of her wedding.
shareHaha I was thinking the same thing. She spends one day with another fit dude and she is practically in his bed.
shareNah, Amelia's lust for Shooter is shown developing in the flashback sequence where Benji is delayed and they go to the Nantucket house ahead of him. Beach walks, underwear skinny dipping and eating canned canapes in front of the fire is what kicks off the lust. This explains the earlier "cold feet" conversation she has with Merritt and the abortive sex hookup with Benji not long after.
The kissing was the kind of catharsis of all that and probably further motivated by the revelation that her best friend was pregnant with her father-in-law's bastard child.
Plus she even admits that getting caught with Shooter by Benji reduces her moral standing to that of the rest of the Winbury family.