Although many of Keeping Up With the Kardashians' plot lines have made for scintillating television, season 6 sticks out as a blight on the series' otherwise shiny veneer. True, the show introduced its audience to sartorial movers and shakers like designer Riccardo Tisci. It has showcased notable athletes such as Tristan Thompson and James Harden, and musicians including Tyga, French Montana, and John Legend. It even delved into an American family grappling with the gender identity of its patriarch. However, this collection of shows just falls flat.

Season 6 premiered June 12, 2011, with an episode titled, "Family vs. Money." The opener treated fans to a heaping dose of Kim's burgeoning love affair with NBA player Kris Humphries. The following week, episode 2 titled, "Kim Becomes a Stage Mom," introduced viewers to a new side of Kim's personality: the momager-in-training. She took a less-than-healthy interest in sister Kendall Jenner's budding modeling career, leaving audiences asking, "Mama Kris who?"

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As the season continued, there were other melodramas that played out with seemingly heavy-handed guidance from producers. Kris Jenner contemplated changing her surname back to Kardashian, leaving her spouse to question her loyalty to their relationship and family. Kim also got that infamous X-ray of her most valuable asset and showed the world once and for all that her butt is real. Kourtney and Scott contemplated expanding their family, despite concerns over their unorthodox relationship. The family continued to stress over Scott's drunken behavior and enthusiasm for nightlife.

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Perhaps the biggest eye roll of the season came when the Kardashian-Jenners trekked to Bora Bora for vacation. Humphries accompanied Kim, but there was soon trouble in paradise. In a moment of levity, the B-baller tossed his lady love into the sea, resulting in the tantrum heard 'round the world. One of Kim's $75,000 diamond earrings was lost in the horseplay, but Humphries was less than sympathetic. As the season drew to a close, Kim forgave and forgot, and ultimately managed to wrangle an engagement out of her beau. Viewers marveled as the basketball player sneaked into her home, decorating it with rose petals. He dropped down to one knee and popped the question. Keeping Up with the Kardashians's season 6 culminated with a huge wedding befitting a princess (in a multi-part televised special, of course), and left us all wondering if Kim could really live happily ever after with her hubby. Season six's final episode titled, "Kendall's Sweet 16," wrapped up the family's shenanigans in a nice big birthday bow for the budding model, with her adoring relatives in tow.

What makes the season such a bust is that viewers are left looking at too much fabricated chaos unraveling, while all the juicy moments soon to follow are reduced to brief epiphanies during taped confessionals. Kourtney and Scott are a mess (so what else is new?). Kris and Bruce (now Caitlyn) show signs of marital fatigue, with few disclosures about what was really transpiring in their union. Kendall and Kylie are given unwarranted amounts of screen time, with little in their young lives to back it up, and say what you want, but Kim is almost unrecognizable as a whiny, marriage-thirsty Valley girl. Thankfully, each of the storylines (and cast members) featured in season 6 of Keeping Up With the Kardashians evolved into something much more profound and real than what originally aired back in 2011.

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