8/16/2023 0 Comments Doing amazing sweetie![]() The way the show deals with the family’s adjustment process, as well as Caitlyn’s, I find tonally very touching. And, of course, Caitlyn’s transition, which takes up a huge chunk of one series and introduced a transgender person to a mainstream television audience. Grief, sexism, comings-of-age (“What are you doing with that cigarette?” “Nothing”). It will come as no surprise that real events are mixed up with fabrications cooked up in the writers’ room.īeyond the frivolity, I can see from the clips and the specific episodes I watch that over the course of 14 years the show has touched on serious topics. The proposal scene between Kris (the boyfriend) and Kim was reshot because Kim “didn’t like her reaction”. Surely there is no one on the planet who hasn’t learned by now that reality shows contain only a small portion of reality. But, as with all of these shows, the scenes are storyboarded. Some of the scenarios are real – I don’t think anyone is going to jail for ratings, and obviously marriages and births take place. When the family members are all bundled into a car going to court because Khloe has broken her parole for a DUI offence, Kris chastises Kim: “Kim, would you stop taking pictures of yourself your sister’s going to jail.” Cut to Kim, arm stretched out of a rolled-down car window, smiling with her head at an angle. When Kris comes home with a piglet wrapped in a blanket, like a newborn baby (I don’t know), her daughter asks, from some distance, but in all seriousness: “ Is that a chicken?” I laughed, hard. The show becomes funnier as the family get used to having the camera around and the narratives become a little stronger. Kourtney’s husband Scott offers to shave her pubic hair for her because he “worked in a barbershop for three days when I was 11”. This does, however, mean that Kris (the mother) can make repeated sideswipes for the rest of the show(s). I have waited longer for invoices to be paid. Kim’s first marriage is to someone called Kris, in a sort of electra complex turned on its head. ![]() There is a cast of peripheral men throughout. Khloe is my early favourite, because she’s relatable straight out of the gate: “I need a fucking Xanax.” But cut me open aged 15 and I bled my mother’s Visa security code, too. The height of drama at one point is the kids stealing their father’s credit card. I know Seacrest as someone who does the Oscars red-carpet coverage for E! and being sent up on BoJack Horseman, but he has writing credits on the show, and it is still a bone of contention between the now-divorced Kris and Caitlyn as to who brought the original idea to him. Keeping Up with the Kardashians was helped into being by Ryan Seacrest. It does not seem to have the wryness of a predecessor, The Simple Life, which I caught reruns of in the night and which Nicole Richie’s droll wit made bearable (she is, at a guess, five times smarter than Paris Hilton). I am all for the voyeurism of rich people’s lives – I lusted over the fictional Cohens’ pool house in The OC for many years – but this show is not endearing itself to me. More concerning is one of the young half-siblings – aged about 10 or so – I can’t recall which one it is – dancing on a “stripper pole” Kim has bought for her mother’s anniversary present, which, in itself, is Quite Weird. Why did Kim make it? “Because I was horny and I felt like it” – which, quite frankly, is a brilliant answer. The first we see of Kris is when she explains that, as a mother, she wasn’t happy with Kim’s leaked sex tape, but as a manager, it is pretty advantageous. The store the sisters run is: “a place where we get to catch up and relax and gossip”, which doesn’t seem the best route to a viable business, but given this is a family of now-millionaires (and, ostensibly, in Kylie’s case, one billionaire) I am going to keep my mouth shut. Introducing themselves, Kourtney announces: “I’m the oldest, and the most mature.” Well … yes. It looks as though it were shot in the early 1900s (film quality-wise, I mean – the clothes are very clearly late-00s halter necks and chrome minidresses). This is 22 minutes long but feels much longer. So, to begin at the beginning, as Lewis Carroll put it: the pilot episode. Kendall, whose name will always evoke mint cake, I know is friends with Cara Delevingne, but I could not distinguish between her and who I have learned is the youngest one. ![]() Rob is named after his father, Kris’s first husband the late lawyer who was famous for defending OJ Simpson. Think of Rob as the Jim Corr, or Korr, of the gang. I did not know there was a male sibling, Rob. I was aware that all the sisters have names beginning with K, as though the registrar who did the birth certificates had a keyboard with a missing letter C.
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