Kristen Mary Jenner (born November 5, 1955) is an American television personality, entertainment manager, producer, businesswoman, and author. She rose to fame starring in the reality television series Keeping Up with the Kardashians (2007–present).
She has four children from her first marriage to lawyer Robert Kardashian: Kourtney, Kim, Khloé and Robert, and two children from her second marriage to television personality and retired Olympic Games medalist, Bruce Jenner (now Caitlyn): Kendall and Kylie.
‘The Kardashians’ Presents a Famous Family That’s Outgrown Its Stage: TV Review
variety.comDaniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticIn the second episode of “The Kardashians,” Hulu’s new reality show featuring the widely-documented Calabasas, Calif.
family, there is a moment of reflection. Kim Kardashian is backstage at “Saturday Night Live,” preparing for her October 2021 hosting gig, when her makeup artist wells up with tears, recalling just how vertiginous his client’s climb has been. “I remember 12 or 13 years ago, when you were going on your first talk show… I just got that vision.”The trouble with having mastered reinvention is that visions of your past selves have a way of popping up. “The Kardashians” is putatively looking to the future — its subjects are on a new platform, having swapped in Hulu for E!, and are sumptuously shot by a production that seems to spare no expense. (The series-opening fake continuous shot, zooming between family members’ homes, is as close as Kris Jenner is likely to get in this lifetime to a “Birdman” homage.) But it’s obsessed, in a way that holds this series back from whatever it might be, with the past.
As a series about the contemporary lives of Kim Kardashian and family, this is about as well-made and incisive as one could expect; take that however it means to you.
But as an argument for the continued dominance of the Kardashians in our culture, it finds itself with little novel to say. Like all of us, Kim Kardashian lives a life divided between professional and personal pursuits.
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