ouse of Kardashian is put together in such a way that it may well act as a Rorschach test. You might come away from this three-hour documentary series thinking that the Kardashian-Jenner family is a pioneering model of female-led entrepreneurship and empowerment – or that they are a late-stage capitalist nightmare, changing society for the worse, atop their gilded mountains of cash.
At the end of each instalment, there is a note to say that the Kardashian-Jenners declined to be interviewed. Mostly, it features peripheral friends – intriguingly, one particularly strident contributor, Rachel Sterling, is referred to as a “former friend” of Kim’s, though sadly they don’t explain why – and colleagues from over the years, thoughis interviewed at length, and has been as close to the inner workings of this many-headed beast as anyone is likely to get.
It works as a potted history of the family’s rise to fame, notoriety and wealth, suggesting that their current value, as an empire, stands at roughly $2bn . It also works as an analysis of how they came from, fitted into and even shaped the cultural and social climate of the modern age.
It does so with some success, even for those of us who have actively avoided the Kardashians’ endless reality production line, for fear of being sucked into the maelstrom. It follows “momager” Kris’s trajectory, from flight attendant to society wife, to savvy businesswoman known as “the velvet hammer” due to her no-nonsense negotiating charms, to celebrity in her own right. It tells the story of her first marriage, to the lawyer Robert Kardashian, who defended his close friendin 1995.
At times, it is exhaustive – and occasionally exhausting – though I imagine not nearly as exhausting as keeping up with Keeping Up with the Kardashians and its many offshoots over the last three decades. For those who have put in the time and work, there probably won’t be many revelations. It is also missing a little frivolity and fluff.
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