Keeping Up with the Kardashians
Kris's Mother-in-Law
TV Flash files “Kris's Mother-in-Law” as hour 95 of 272 in the TV Flash guide — Keeping Up with the Kardashians (2007–2021) on E!, season 8, episode 12, aired 2013-08-18, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S08E12: listed hour 95 of 272 in the Keeping Up with the Kardashians guide, hour 12 of 19 in season 8. It aired 2013-08-18 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “100th Episode: Life's a Beach House” (S08E11). Next is “The Kardashian Chainsaw Massacre” (S08E13).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
After visiting Bruce's mother, Kris begins to worry. Kim helps Kylie start her fashion blog. The family collaborates on a surprise for Kris.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Kris's Mother-in-Law sit in the Keeping Up with the Kardashians guide?
S08E12 is listed hour 95 of 272 — hour 12 of 19 in season 8, season 8 episode 12.
When did Keeping Up with the Kardashians S08E12 air?
Kris's Mother-in-Law aired 2013-08-18 and is listed at 60 minutes.
Is it "real"?
Manufactured intimacy is the business model. Cameras, Kris producing the clan, sisters as brands — the unreality is the product.
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Why this series still plays
A family that turned tabloid weather into a vertical empire, cameras included. Keeping Up with the Kardashians is manufactured intimacy as a business model — Kris producing the clan, sisters as brands, and reality TV writing the playbook influencer culture later called original.
I'm Watching You is not a title. It is a pact. Ryan Seacrest and Bunim/Murray's Keeping Up with the Kardashians premiered on E! in 2007 and ran through 2021: Kim, Khloé, Kourtney, Kris producing the clan, Kylie, Kendall, cameras on the tabloid weather until the weather became the business. Manufactured intimacy as a model. Sisters as brands. Sex-tape origin lore and the forever famous-for-what discourse are inseparable from the text, which is a polite way of saying the origin leak never left the lobby. Twenty…
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- Kim Kardashian as Herself
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- Kourtney Kardashian as Herself
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- Kris Jenner as Herself
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- Kylie Jenner as Herself
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- Kendall Jenner as Herself
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