Keeping Up with the Kardashians
Blood, Sweat, and Fears
TV Flash files “Blood, Sweat, and Fears” as hour 167 of 272 in the TV Flash guide — Keeping Up with the Kardashians (2007–2021) on E!, season 12, episode 15, aired 2016-08-28, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S12E15: listed hour 167 of 272 in the Keeping Up with the Kardashians guide, hour 15 of 21 in season 12. It aired 2016-08-28 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “The Digital Rage” (S12E14). Next is “Love at First Fight” (S12E16).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
When Kris sees Khloé struggling, she urges Rob to reconnect with his sister; Kourtney worries about giving Scott mixed messages; Kris pushes herself too far in order to keep up with her daughters' workouts.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Blood, Sweat, and Fears sit in the Keeping Up with the Kardashians guide?
S12E15 is listed hour 167 of 272 — hour 15 of 21 in season 12, season 12 episode 15.
When did Keeping Up with the Kardashians S12E15 air?
Blood, Sweat, and Fears aired 2016-08-28 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.
In the series
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
Kim Kardashian played herself as the still center of Keeping Up with the Kardashians — tabloid weather turned vertical empire, manufactured intimacy as a business model, sisters as brands, Kris producing the clan. TV Flash files her as…
- Khloe Kardashian as Herself
Khloe Kardashian played herself as the blunt sister in Keeping Up with the Kardashians — tabloid weather as a vertical empire, cameras included, Kris producing, sisters as brands. Manufactured intimacy that influencer culture later called…
- Kourtney Kardashian as Herself
Kourtney Kardashian played herself as the eldest-sister brake on Keeping Up with the Kardashians — tabloid weather as empire, cameras included, Kris producing, sisters as brands. Manufactured intimacy with a sibling who looked tired of…
- Kris Jenner as Herself
Kris Jenner produced and played herself on Keeping Up with the Kardashians — a family that turned tabloid weather into a vertical empire, cameras included, sisters as brands, manufactured intimacy as the actual product. TV Flash files her…
- Kylie Jenner as Herself
Kylie Jenner grew up inside Keeping Up with the Kardashians as herself — youngest-sister weather in a tabloid empire, cameras included, Kris producing, sisters as brands, manufactured intimacy as a business model. TV Flash files her as…
- Kendall Jenner as Herself
Kendall Jenner grew up on camera as herself on Keeping Up with the Kardashians — manufactured intimacy as a business model, Kris producing the clan, sisters as brands, a younger silhouette in a tabloid-weather empire. TV Flash files her…