Just months after its third ended, The Kardashians is back on Hulu for its fourth season. Though we certainly had our qualms about the show in its entirety and questions about its path forward while watching Season 3, Season 4’s premiere has renewed our excitement about the program, giving us hints of the original reality series that made the family famous and providing plenty of discourse for denizens of the internet.
Our major complaint with Season 3 was that the show had gotten too boring. Any reality show that documents a singular family for years on end will eventually have a boring season unless the entire show is manufactured – even the Kardashians aren’t participating in out-of-this-world exciting activities on a daily basis – but Season 3 took the show to a new low. Unless we were to read specific episode recaps of what aired this past summer, we couldn’t recall what happened last season.
The Kardashians are Stepping It Up
The family has leveled up in a major way for Season 4, delivering a season premiere far more exciting than the entirety of its last season. Season 4’s first episode, which dropped on Hulu on September 29, opens with Kourtney Kardashian Barker and Kim Kardashian having a heated argument over the phone, both drudging up issues the two fought about in Season 3 and acknowledging that hearing what the two said about each other in Season 3 is what reignited their feud.
The phone call resulted in Kim revealing to her older sister that she and their other sisters have a group chat called “Not Kourtney” in which they express worry over Kourtney’s life, Kim asking Kourtney if she’s happy, and Kourtney telling Kim she’s happy when she’s not with her younger sister. The rest of the episode was typical Kardashians, but the phone call was intense enough to make the entire episode worth watching.
The Drama Viewers are After
This phone call is exactly the entertainment The Kardashians has been missing. Though rumors of a rift between the sisters had been swirling on the internet, there was little other than blind items to serve as evidence, making this phone call far more compelling than anything we got from Season 3. For the show to survive, we need content we can’t get on their social media and in the tabloids, and this phone call is exactly that.
There are still nine episodes to be had this season, but if they’re anything like Episode 1, reality TV fans are in for a good fall.
The Kardashians is streaming now on Hulu.