Keeping Up with the Kardashians' final season premiere shows the family hasn't learned about accountability, even in the COVID era

The Daily Beast

"After spending over a decade in the spotlight with a film crew capturing their every move, the famous family does not seem to have learned anything about accountability," says Jordan Julian. "Or maybe they are just impervious to backlash, having faced a seemingly endless amount of it, from the Jordyn Woods drama to that Pepsi commercial. Most likely, they just don’t care. It’s safe to say that the astronomical fame of the Kardashian clan isn’t disappearing anytime soon, even once they’ve migrated to Hulu. It shouldn’t come as a surprise, then, that Thursday night’s episode is littered with tone-deaf comments about the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on their lives, rendered all the more hypocritical in the context of the Kardashians’ well-documented disregard for safety protocols over the past year."

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