We Need to See Extra of MJ on ‘The Kardashians’

April 21, 2025

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Season 6 of The Kardashians is coming to an anticipated shut. Because the season is winding down, it is apparent the well-known household is having bother developing with storylines with out repeating historical past. Khloé Kardashian‘s uncomfortable assembly together with her ex-husband Lamar, Kendall Jenner and Kylie Jenner as a part-time duo, Kourtney Kardashian sustaining her boundaries, and Kim Kardashian cramming her schedule full to the brim, this season delivered just about precisely what was anticipated.

With everybody within the household so busy with their unbiased schedules, it was uncommon to see them come collectively in any respect. North West showing in the anniversary tribute for The Lion King introduced the cousins out to have a good time. Kim’s birthday is all the time an occasion that brings lots of the members of the family to the desk. However there’s one member of the family who has been in a position to unite everybody like no different over time, and that’s the matriarch, Mary Jo “MJ” Shannon. Season 6 was no exception, and proved that viewers need extra scenes with MJ that carry the household collectively.

Extra Scenes With MJ Is What ‘The Kardashians’ Wants

Kim Kardashian checks out her grandmother MJ's wig on 'Keeping Up With the Kardashians' — Picture through Peacock

The season has been stuffed with clear filming alternatives, like assembly with a “wellness professional” or touring to camp at Joshua Tree, the place solely Kim, Khloé, and their mom Kris Jenner confirmed up for the project. Kendall was aggravated that she missed the prospect to talk with a fellow well being connoisseur, however the tenting journey occurred to coincide together with her 818 Tequila “school tour” and she or he fortunately missed out on the household bonding. Everybody within the household mainly acknowledges that Kourtney and Kylie will solely attend the occasions that align with their very own schedule and private emotions from second to second, so it is clear that the times when the household filmed repeatedly collectively and share their genuine opinions about one another’s lives are nicely and really over.

In recent times, MJ has sometimes been the exception to this rule, the one who continues to be in a position to attract the Kardashian members of the family out of their private orbits to satisfy collectively. Her capability to attract out the most effective in her grandchildren, and convey collectively the brood of great-grandchildren the household now has, means MJ continues to be an necessary determine on The Kardashians. The present wants a determine like MJ with the ability to attach the household.

MJ continues to be spry and sharp-witted, though her well being is understandably a priority as she continues to age gracefully. Final yr she suffered a devastating loss when her daughter, Kris’ sister Karen Houghton, handed away unexpectedly. The loss brought on nice damage to each MJ and Kris, who hesitated to discuss her emotions about her sister on digital camera and even appeared to be pushing them away. It appeared Kris felt the necessity to keep skilled and suppress robust feelings, however the best way this loss was mentioned got here throughout as a missed alternative for the mom and daughter to come back nearer collectively of their mourning.

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The mannequin likes to set herself aside, however she has extra in widespread together with her well-known household than she lets on.

Season 6 Confirmed How A lot MJ Wants Her Household

It grew to become clear from a cellphone name Kris acquired from her mom whereas she was in her hair and make-up chair preparing for an occasion earlier this season that MJ was in want of care. Though she has made comparable guarantees as Kim has in relation to slowing down, Kris has proved equally dangerous in relation to preserving her schedule clear. It was heartbreaking to see Kris panicking on the considered her mom in want, and as an alternative of committing to spending time with MJ herself, deciding to ship an assistant. Sticking to skilled obligations is all the time an comprehensible concern, however Kris additionally seems visibly uncomfortable sitting with grief or tough feelings. She seems to desire to specific herself by lavish events and huge gestures, as her daughter Kourtney has continuously noticed.

It appears what MJ wants from her household is extra time collectively, which is precisely what the sequence wants as nicely. The extra the household comes collectively to spend time with each other, the extra genuine moments might be captured on the sequence, fairly than the staged occasions which are clearly strictly for manufacturing. Which has been Kourtney’s level for a number of years now, that the well-known household is nice at celebrating one another in large occasions, however not as expert at coping with one another’s ideas and emotions in the mean time. Kourtney wasn’t in a position to attend the lavish occasion Kris threw for MJ that was filmed for Season 6, however she made the purpose that she can be having an in a single day go to to spend high quality time together with her grandmother, so she might spend time together with her new child great-grandson. These sorts of moments that function extra intimate scenes of household bonding, interspersed with the anticipated scenes of the Met gala, Kim’s SNL appearances, and varied enterprise promotions, are precisely what The Kardashians wants as a sequence shifting ahead.