Keeping Up with the Kardashians: Dance Moves and Sex Ed.
This week on Keeping Up with the Kardashians, Kris got the opportunity to dance with the Los Angeles Sparks dance team before tearing her meniscus, while the Kim, Khloe, and Kourtney sisters did some sex ed for stepsister Kendall.
One of the highlights of this week’s episode was that it featured a lot of Olympic gold medalist Bruce Jenner, who is no doubt one of the most fun parts of the show. Bruce is so optimistic, heterosexual, and blue collar that seeing him interact with the flashy family is always a lot of fun.
The show was filled with Bruce one-liners and even taking a search for his wife’s dildo in stride while the girls tried to get under his skin. Bruce always seems to keep his cool and this week was no different, even as he was concerned about his wife’s knee surgery and his daughter Kendall getting a little distant from him as she enters the joys of adolescence.
Though not a lot happened this week in terms of drama, I have to say that this was one of the best episodes of the young season so far. Though the Kardashian Sex Ed. was getting a little old by the end, it led to the family sitting down together and watching Kendall’s birth video, which was extremely touching for some reason.
It showed a young, good Kim and Kourtney awaiting the birth of their stepsister, along with Bruce being the all-around good guy that he is. At the end of the video, Bruce said to his just born daughter with his hairdo from the 90’s, “Even when you’re a teenager, remember that I’m still your friend.”It was crazy to see how well that fit into the context of this episode. Kim was in tears watching the video and it was clear that it had an effect on the rest of the family as well, or at least it was edited that well.
It’s in moments like this that you remember that beyond all the glitz and glamor that is Kim Kardashian, the family is still just a family. They go through some crazy stuff, but it was nice to have an episode that wasn’t necessarily filled with scandal or drama.
This was more of an episode about them being a family, which is when the show is at its absolute best – much like it was when Rob Kardashian spoke about his relationship with his late-father earlier in the season.
Later this week, The Kardashians will be the focus of E!’s True Hollywood Story, which I think will be one of the more interesting episodes of the show for me. While the show is said to go into details about Kim’s first marriage, I think that the most fascinating part will be the interviews with the girls and Kris about their experience during the O.J. Simpson trial, in which their father, Robert Kardashian, was a lawyer. The family was close with Nicole Brown Simpson, so it will be a completely different perspective on the trial that I’m really looking forward to watching.
The Hills
may have had the greatest season preview trailer of all time for Season 3.5, but there is few a semi-scripted reality TV show that is as consistently good as Keeping up with the Kardashians.
