Kim Kardashian’s latest acting project has been panned, with critics declaring All’s Fair “the worst television drama ever made”.
The Disney+ series, from American Horror Story creator Ryan Murphy alongside Jon Robin Baitz and Joe Baken, premiered on Tuesday (November 4) and currently holds a zero per cent rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
Kardashian stars opposite Naomi Watts and Niecy Nash-Betts as a trio of divorce lawyers who leave a male-dominated firm to start their own. The cast also includes Sarah Paulson, Glenn Close and Teyana Taylor, who is being tipped for an Oscar nomination for her upcoming role opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another.
However, All’s Fair has been widely panned. The Times gave it zero stars, writing: “It may well be the worst television drama ever made.” Critic Ben Dowell added that the 10-part series was “not even enjoyably bad” and felt “scripted by a toddler who couldn’t write ‘bum’ on a wall.”
The Guardian’s Lucy Mangan also gave it zero stars, writing: “I did not know it was still possible to make television this bad.” She described All’s Fair as “fascinatingly, incomprehensibly, existentially terrible.”
The Telegraph’s Ed Power said it would be “unfair to single out Kardashian”, describing her “participation as just one disaster among many” — though noted the star also produced the series alongside her mother, Kris Jenner.
In The Hollywood Reporter, Angie Han described Kardashian’s performance as “stiff and affectless” but suggested the fault lay partly in the script, which she said was “equally stiff and affectless without a single authentic note”.
Kardashian, who previously appeared in American Horror Story: Delicate, told the BBC she felt “honoured” to work alongside her co-stars, whom she called “the best acting coaches in the world”.
Acknowledging her reality TV roots, she added: “The last thing I would want to do is be unprofessional, be late or not know my lines.”
The series marks Kardashian’s most substantial acting role to date, following cameos in Disaster Movie (2008) and Drop Dead Diva. Despite the negative reviews, the show has sparked curiosity online, with viewers on X sharing clips and memes mocking its dialogue and courtroom scenes.
In a recent interview, Kardashian revealed she suffered a stress-related aneurysm during filming, describing it as “terrifying” and saying it made her reassess her workload. “It was a huge wake-up call,” she said. “I realised how much pressure I was putting on myself to prove I belonged here.”
