"The Kardashians" this season that emphasize the family's unrelatability

But the season's final episode showed us in part why the Kardashians' appeal endures, documenting the fallout

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Khloé spoke about trauma, saying she felt publicly and privately humiliated by Thompson's chronic deceptions, but also numb and desensitized

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Khloé and Kim connected on motherhood, expressing the lengths each went to preserve their relationship for their children

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They are operating in a completely different economic sphere, a celebrity sphere, all these kinds of things that are far separated from regular people

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However, I don't think that by any means makes it either unrelatable, irrelevant, potentially uninteresting or not instructive

I don't think we'd have kept watching this whole time if everything they did was completely separate from our experience

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Particularly given that the world at large often feels unsafe and unsettling, it is especially important that we feel safe

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