Is Anyone Else Buying Kim, Khloé, and Kourtney's Fights This Season on *KUWTK*?
Keeping Up With the Kardashians (a.k.a, KUWTK, a.k.a the pinnacle of culture) is really going out of its way this season to make it look like Kim, Khloé, and Kourtney aren’t getting along. Things kicked off in early August when the show depicted Kourtney and Kim having a colossal argument over their family’s Christmas card photo shoot (very serious stuff), and it’s escalated since then.
In a new clip, Kim and Khloé are seen wrapping holiday presents and essentially bashing Kourtney behind her back. “She’s very selfish these days,” Kim says to Khloé, to which she responds, “She should move somewhere.” What Khloé means by that is unclear. Where exactly does she want Kourtney to go? New York? Miami? That resort where she chastised Kim for freaking out about losing a diamond earring?
Kourtney’s fighting back, too, telling Kendall Jenner in one episode that she doesn’t have the energy to argue with the others. And don’t forget the time a few weeks back when she called Kim an “evil human being.” Tensions are running high on KUWTK right now—arguably higher than when Kim swatted Khloé with her purse and told her not to be “f–cking” rude.
But here’s the problem: I’m just not buying it this season. KUWTK season 15 was filmed last year, so it’s entirely possible the tension was very real at the time. My eyebrows raised, though, when Kourtney, Kim, and Khloé had a Twitter fight about these issues last month timed to the series’ premiere. Khloé even used #KUWTK in several of her “rant” tweets, so how spur-of-the-moments were they?
Some fans accused Kris Jenner of staging the entire just to drum up ratings—so is that formula happening all season? Not to quote the Kardashian-Jenner matriarch herself, but this truly is a case for the FBI.
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Of course, this is nothing new: reality TV shows are notorious for exaggerating drama for narrative purposes. Several cast members of The Hills even copped to this years after the series wrapped. But people are savvier to these tricks now, especially after UnREAL opened the curtain to what goes on behind-the-scenes on The Bachelor. Viewers understand there might be some producing and editing magic at play, but watching “reality” is no longer fun if the drama feels too staged.
And the Kardashians, of all people, don’t have to do this. Fans would pay thousands just to watch them read a phone book. Public interest in them is high and has been for years. KUWTK, in all of its iterations, has always felt real and authentic. These latest fights, however, don’t—and it’s ruining the series, at least for me.
Take it from a loyal viewer, Kris Jenner and company: I’ll tune in every Sunday just to watch Kourtney, Kim, and Khloé eat large salads and roll their eyes. That’s enough for me—and probably most fans—because it feels true. Maybe-staged Twitter fights are about as entertaining as the revamped KUWTK intro. (Yes, I miss the old one! And I know you do, too.)
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