What our gals call a barbecue is something to behold: monochromatic ball-pit slides, silver buffet serving trays, and clothes that I wouldn’t have otherwise ever thought to describe as clothes. (Later, Kendall clarifies in a confessional that she actually had COVID, but promises she’ll be back to shoot the rest of the season - which I’ll believe when I see it.) This “Avengers Assemble” montage brings the on-camera family together for a barbecue at Kim’s house. It’s the first big difference between this show and its predecessor, but just when you might worry that too much has changed, Kendall uses her drone shot to call out sick from the first family group scene. After a ten-month absence, the Kardashian family is back on our screens, and what better way to start this new chapter than with drones? Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be a bird trapped in Kylie Cosmetics headquarters? If so, their new show’s opening has you covered, with drone footage soaring from one sister to the next through the Calabasas skies. And with that recalibration and new home came the longest gap that the family has been off television in 15 years.īut finally, our long national nightmare is over. But just as Keeping Up evolved over the years to adapt to the family’s changing life, this new chapter provided an opportunity to hit reset on how they share their stories. Just three months later, Disney announced that the family had signed a deal to produce “new global content” for Hulu - but what exactly did this vague announcement mean? A revival of the hit daytime talk show Kris? The addition of Armenia to Disney World’s Epcot? Sponsored posts for The Dropout? It turns out it essentially meant the continuation of Keeping Up With the Kardashians, sans those first three words. But if we really thought we were done keeping up, we learned nothing from those 20 seasons. There were retrospectives, teary good-byes, and even reunion shows to mark a grandiose farewell.
When the Kardashian family announced the end of E!’s Keeping Up With the Kardashians in 2020, it seemed like the end of an era.