The Kardashians

With new babies on the horizon, new business ventures bubbling up and closer looks into the lives of America’s royal family, The Kardashians Season 5 certainly does not disappoint thus far.

If you look a little harder, there is entertainment to be found in The Kardashians. In Season 5, this is partly thanks to new on-the-fly confessionals filmed in real-time.

It's not quite as unique stylistically as Keeping Up, but it's a good, captivating, and easy watch - which is only going to get more fascinating as we delve into the behind the scenes of some of the biggest headlines of the past 12 months.

Is it a radical departure from their previous show, Keeping Up with the Kardashians on E!, which ended last year? Least spoilery spoiler alert ever: It is not.

As a series about the contemporary lives of Kim Kardashian and family, this is about as well-made and incisive as one could expect; take that however it means to you. But as an argument for the continued dominance of the Kardashians in our culture, it finds itself with little novel to say.

Even if you’re a fan of the Kardashians, the whole more-of-the-same vibe of The Kardashians is just a crashing bore.

As always, the Kardashians' lives don't unfold with a great sense of urgency, devoting the first two episodes to the preparations for Kim's "SNL" stint, while eliciting fairly obvious exchanges like her marveling, "This will be live. Live."

The farthest thing from “reality”. The Kardashians is nothing more than poorly veiled propaganda intended to manipulate “fans” into buying their overpriced and sweat-shop produced products (eg Skims, Kylie Cosmetics)