The Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker PDA Has Officially Gotten Out of

Have you ever wondered what The Notebook would look like if it were rated NC-17 and had about one billion dollars dumped onto it? Well, it still couldn’t come anywhere close to the throbbing, lusty relationship between Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker being depicted on The Kardashians from week to week—though I’m sure Gena Rowlands would give it the old college try.

Kourtney and Travis—“Kravis,” as the media has so lovingly yet unoriginally dubbed them—have been throwing themselves all over each other for the last nine weeks of Hulu’s docuseries. Not an episode has gone by without several scenes depicting them feeling each other up, making out hardcore in front of the cameras and their kids, and talking about just how sexually compatible they are.

At first, it was refreshing to see the eldest Kardashian sister so visibly happy in a relationship after spending nearly two decades in the public eye bereft of stable love. Her life pre-Barker was not an easy one, as anyone who caught even an episode of Keeping Up with the Kardashians here or there could probably attest to.

“Kissing and hugging is not a bad thing,” Kardashian states to the camera early in the season. “I’m actually grateful that my kids can see a loving and affectionate relationship because they haven’t seen that their whole lives.” And that’s completely true! It’s great that Kourtney’s young kids can see and understand what a healthy relationship between two adults can look like—too bad the editors are working overtime to betray them.

Not 15 minutes into the first episode of The Kardashians, Kourtney stands from her own chair and sits in Travis’ lap, and moments later he’s rubbing her ass through her shorts and she’s putting her thumb in his mouth in the middle of a family barbecue that includes everyone from the blended Kardashian family’s youngest offspring to the grand matriarch Kris Jenner. And the kids don’t seem to love it much either, as they’ve been repeatedly shown kindly asking the two to stop French kissing in their eyeshot.

Bizarrely, scenes with Kourtney and Travis are hushed and intimate, which makes experiencing them through your television screen all the worse. So many other moments in The Kardashians are cloaked in shitty TikTok-trend-adjacent, royalty-free songs that make it easy to half-watch the show while scrolling on your phone, but then there will be a smash cut to total silence, jolting the viewer back to the show just in time to see Kourtney and Travis kissing one another while waiting for an elevator, the sound design so amplified you’d think that they were trying to pass a microphone from one mouth to the other with their tongues.

More often than not, their saccharine aura will prove to be so strong that I feel like I’m peering in on moments I was never meant to see. Sometimes, there will be nothing sexual about it and I’ll still come away feeling like I just stumbled into someone else’s bedroom.

Barker will coo, “I love my baby, my baby’s the greatest, my baby’s the strongest,” while they press their foreheads together, staring into each other’s eyes for prolonged periods of time while…