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Alison Herman
TV Critic
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Courtesy of Netflix The Los Angeles suburb of Calabasas — tucked into the foothills of the Santa Monica Mountains on the San Fernando Valley’s far western edge — is, in many ways, ground zero for reality TV as we know it. This is the home of the Kardashians, the genre’s first family, whose rise to fame familiarized the world with the small city’s cavernous McMansions and upscale strip malls. The producers of the new Netflix series “Calabasas Confidential” are betting there’s still some ore left in this gold mine, and have assembled a small army of 20somethings in the hopes at least one of them will turn out to be the next Kylie or Kim. Based on the first season’s eight episodes, such a vertiginous ascent seems unlikely. Then again, so did that of the stars’ obvious role models.
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