Keeping Up with the Kardashians
Close to Home
TV Flash files “Close to Home” as hour 195 of 272 in the TV Flash guide — Keeping Up with the Kardashians (2007–2021) on E!, season 14, episode 8, aired 2017-11-19, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S14E08: listed hour 195 of 272 in the Keeping Up with the Kardashians guide, hour 8 of 19 in season 14. It aired 2017-11-19 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Beauty Queen” (S14E07). Next is “Dog Tired” (S14E09).
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Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Kim is shocked to learn about the rising rate of homelessness in LA and sets out to bring awareness to the growing crisis. Meanwhile Kris hires a scribe to document her every word.
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Where does Close to Home sit in the Keeping Up with the Kardashians guide?
S14E08 is listed hour 195 of 272 — hour 8 of 19 in season 14, season 14 episode 8.
When did Keeping Up with the Kardashians S14E08 air?
Close to Home aired 2017-11-19 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…