Kim Kardashian’s latest attempt to break the internet hasn’t gone to plan — because this time, the only thing shattering is her show’s Rotten Tomatoes score. Ryan Murphy’s star-studded new legal drama All’s Fair has landed on Disney+, and critics are already filing for divorce.
The show follows a trio of glamorous divorce lawyers in L.A. — Kim as Allura Grant, Naomi Watts as Liberty Ronson, and Niecy Nash-Betts as Emerald Greene — who start their own firm to help rich women dump their even richer husbands. Think Suits entering its girlboss era.
But instead of a feminist drama, Murphy has apparently served up something “existentially terrible”. That’s not me being dramatic — that’s The Guardian’s Lucy Mangan, who gave the show zero stars and wrote, “I did not know it was still possible to make television this bad…
“[All’s Fair is] fascinatingly, incomprehensibly, existentially terrible.”
Over at The Times, Ben Dowell went for the jugular with another zero-star review, boldly titling it “This may be 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”.
The show scored zero per cent on Rotten Tomatoes (from critic reviews) and 48 per cent on the Popcornmeter (reviews from wider audience).
Meanwhile, The Hollywood Reporter’s Angie Han called the series “empty” and “unforgivably dull”. She admitted the fashion might be fierce, but said the dialogue often “borders on inane” — citing lines like, “‘I failed. I hate failing,’ Allura pouts.” Somewhere, Shonda Rhimes just screamed.
Even with an A-list cast boasting Naomi Watts, Glenn Close, Niecy Nash-Betts, Teyana Taylor and Sarah Paulson, nobody is safe. “Not even Glenn Close can save it,” Mangan from The Guardian declared.
The Telegraph’s Ed Power labelled the show “a crime against television”, while also describing Kardashian’s performance as “stilted”, adding she has “no aura, no unfiltered charisma… Forget an X factor, Kardashian has a Zzzzzz… quality”.
It doesn’t help that Kim isn’t just acting in the series — she’s also an executive producer, alongside Ryan Murphy and, naturally, her mumager Kris Jenner. As Glamour’s Emily Maddick put it, Murphy appears to have been “Kardashian-ified”.
“[Ryan Murphy’s] drunk the Kris Jenner Kool Aid and the Murphy cinematic universe has been infected by this so-called ‘aspirational’ lifestyle the Kardashians dictate we should all be conforming to aspire to; which, in other words, translates as ‘behaving like a billionaire’,” Maddick wrote.
If All’s Fair proves anything, it’s that critics can, in fact, agree on something — and that maybe, just maybe, not every empire needs to expand into prestige television.
Or, as Dowell from The Times diplomatically put it: “Kim… you must have quite a healthy ego to star in what may well be the worst television drama ever made.”
Despite the brutal reviews, this writer is still tempted to tune in and watch the supposed train wreck on Disney+ — if anything to see the show that achieved critical unity.
Lead image: All’s Fair
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