Keeping Up with the Kardashians
Controversies & Legacies
TV Flash files “Controversies & Legacies” as hour 172 of 272 in the TV Flash guide — Keeping Up with the Kardashians (2007–2021) on E!, season 12, episode 20, aired 2016-11-13, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S12E20: listed hour 172 of 272 in the Keeping Up with the Kardashians guide, hour 20 of 21 in season 12. It aired 2016-11-13 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Lord of the Cougars” (S12E19). Next is “No Good Deeds” (S12E21).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Kim decides to have a third child; Kendall fears backlash from supporting gun control; Kris gets emotional about her mother.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Controversies & Legacies sit in the Keeping Up with the Kardashians guide?
S12E20 is listed hour 172 of 272 — hour 20 of 21 in season 12, season 12 episode 20.
When did Keeping Up with the Kardashians S12E20 air?
Controversies & Legacies aired 2016-11-13 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
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- Khloe Kardashian as Herself
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- 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…