Keeping Up with the Kardashians asked viewers to suspend their disbelief this week.
First, because the episode was filmed WAY back in December and focused on the family’s celebration of Christmas.
Second, because Kris Jenner believed she was the target of a murder plot.
We’ll get a summation of the latter storyline over first.
We actually have documented it at length already, sharing multiple clips of Kris Jenner initially testing her drinking water for samples of poison and then being tricked by Kim and Kylie into believing Kourtney was out for her.
Totally hilarious… we guess?
Definitely not totally scripted by producers desperate for some levity… right?
Elsewhere this Sunday, the crux of the installment centered on further tension between Kim, Khloe and Kourtney.
“We really haven’t resolved anything with Kourtney since the therapy session,” Kim said early on in a confessional, adding:
“We’ve so much more to really hash out and it just hasn’t happened yet, so we’ve just all been kind of walking on eggshells around each other.”
As chronicled on The Hollywood Gossip, this filmed rivalry has been ugly and intense at times, while almost definitely phony.
At one point on this episode, Kourtney said she didn’t want to invite Scott Disick to her mother’s holiday party, which caused quite the backlash for some reason.
“You have to invite Scott,” Kris told her eldest child. “You can’t just have him come to a party for 10 years as part of our family, he’s still part of our family.”
Speaking of the party and of invites… why did Caitlyn Jenner not receive one, Kendall wondered?
Simple, Kim replied:
“Scott has never done anything mean or said anything negative. So that’s different.”
It certainly is true that Caitlyn had some harsh things to say about his relatives, most notably Kris Jenner, during his promotional book tour last fall.
But Kendall wasn’t satisfied with this response about her dad, snapping back at Kim:
“Is that actually a joke?. They’ve both done f-cked up things in different ways.”
Kourtney basically agreed with Kendall’s point and emphasized that whether Disick would be a part of the gathering or not was her call in the end.
“This is exactly why my sisters and I haven’t been getting along. They just don’t have my back and they don’t take my feelings into consideration,” she told the camera.
“And now I feel like the same thing’s happening with Kendall. If it’s not exactly what they think there is always criticism and judgement and I’m not here to be criticized every day.”
Kourtney added that she’s “so over everyone and their bitchiness” and even confided in Kendall that she wanted to skip family Christmas altogether this year.
Kendall, of course, shared this admission with Kim and Khloe, who just used it as fuel in their fiery rage against their sister.
“She drives me so crazy, I just don’t even know what to do,” an annoyed Kim said at one point.
Kourtney eventually acquiesced and stuck around for the celebration, but only after Disick vowed to be nice to her then-boyfriend, Younes Bendjima.
Oh, then there was the whole dual pregnancy thing.
This episode was filmed so long ago that Khloe had not yet announced she was expecting, but she was waiting on Kylie to do the same, wanting to give her younger sister a “time to shine” and also wanting to stay out of the spotlight until she was showing.
“I’m just like, chubby right now,” Khloe confessed during a conversation with Kris. “I don’t want someone to be like, ‘Are you pregnant or just hungry?"”
Finally, Kylie called Khloe and said her pregnancy confirmation was forthcoming.
“I just don’t want to be in the spotlight,” the Kylie Cosmetics founder explained. “I’m just gonna be low-key.”
That surprisingly did end up being the case, with Kylie saying almost noting about her status in public until after her daughter was born.
But these cast members had a lot to say last night!
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