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Feels like a reality show entirely designed and executed by a PR team. It makes for a hollow, almost uncanny viewing experience. If you enjoyed KUWTK, I don’t think you’ll like this. I want to try to explain why. Each episode is structured around at least one “problem” and its resolution, like KUWTK was. But the problems are such non-issues (I'm not sure if I want to go on this luxury holiday/ I have a lot of money but some people might not think I deserve it) that it's clear the Kardashians no longer have the kind of problems which make for engaging/relatable reality TV. Or no longer want to give insight into their real lives. Both of which are fine: they don't have to have problems! Or tell us about them! But then, most of the episode is taken up with them trying to convince the viewer that the contrived non-problem is real and deeply important. And this feels disingenuous and gets tiring. So every scene, especially the cutaway interviews (which are so eerily over-lit and airbrushed that they could be animations) feels like the cast arguing for the viewer's emotional investment in them. And, by extension, for the show's existence. It's like each episode is an extended commercial for the show itself, if that makes sense. The spontaneity and glimpses of real life which made KUWTK fun and unpredictable and delicious are totally excised, if they were filmed in the first place. What’s left is a joyless branding exercise. It’s hard to imagine that the cast are enjoying it any more than the viewer.