All’s Fair director Anthony Hemingway has defended the legal drama following rampant criticism, mostly aimed at queen of controversy Kim Kardashian.
“You’re not going to please everybody,” Hemingway, 48, insisted in a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter.
“You may have certain criticisms, while there are a million others who love it,” the filmmaker continued. “I think the show holds a mirror up to each person who watches it. It’s just about: Can you connect to it or relate to it, and see yourself? It may be out of your league, it may not be anything you can connect to, and I think that goes for anything that gets presented on screen.”
He added, “It may not be for you, and that’s OK, but I personally enjoy the show. I had a lot of fun relating to it in my own way. Not everything is for everybody, and you can’t also expect one person to define something and for that be the totality of what it is — I don’t agree with that.”
“I also think sometimes things may take time,” Hemingway continued. “I did The Wire. No one liked the show when it was out. They hated it. They didn’t watch it. Two people watched it every week. But it got to a point where it found a moment.”
He clarified that he’s “not comparing the show to The Wire — let’s get that straight — but it’s an example of how people can react to something in one moment, and it becomes something totally different in another time.”
The director concluded, “The show takes a minute to get into gear, but I do feel like it is absolutely striking something that is refreshing and creatively fulfilling.”
Ryan Murphy’s latest creation All’s Fair isn’t exactly winning over critics — it’s currently sitting at a measly six per cent on Rotten Tomatoes.
The brutal reviews were fast and fierce, with The Guardian’s Lucy Mangan giving the show a rare zero stars, writing: “I did not know it was still possible to make television this bad…
“[All’s Fair is] fascinatingly, incomprehensibly, existentially terrible.”
Meanwhile The Times critic Ben Dowell, who also gave a zero-star review, described it as: “The worst TV drama ever.”
He continued, “It thinks it’s a feminist fable about spirited lawyers getting their own back on cruel rich men but is in fact a tacky and revolting monument to the same greed, vanity and avarice it supposedly targets.” And if you thought he’d stop there, he doesn’t — adding that it feels “scripted by a toddler who couldn’t write ‘bum’ on a wall”.
Then there’s the critic of The Hollywood Reporter — the publication that conducted the interview with the director, which must’ve made things awks — who called the series “empty” and “unforgivably dull”. The high-point for critic Angie Han was the fashion, and the low-point was the dialogue which she said “borders on inane” — with lines like, “‘I failed. I hate failing,’ Allura pouts”.
And what do we think here at PEDESTRIAN.TV? Well for one thing, the hate probably has more to do with what’s going off onscreen, rather than what we’re seeing onscreen.
Anyway, decide for yourself as the series is now streaming on Disney+!
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