I tend to give every single Ryan Murphy show a chance. Call it me being a martyr but I do have a dedication to his slate of shows and that means that I had to give All’s Fair a chance.
The new Murphy, Jon Robin Baitz, and Joe Baken series has an all-star cast, is yet another female led series from Murphy, and has all the makings of something great. So what happened? To set the scene: You have Sarah Paulson as an angry lawyer, furious that the other women in her firm left to create their own firm without the men weighing them down. Those women? Naomi Watts, Kim Kardashian, Niecy Nash, and eventually Teyana Taylor. They got permisison to leave from Glenn Close.
That’s just the line-up of the main cast and there is a sea of guest stars you know and love but it doesn’t make up for how absolutely horrible the scripts for this show are. What does Ryan Murphy have on these actors because in what world would anyone look at these scripts and think “Oh this is bad?”
Look, I don’t think Kim Kardashian should be an actor. She’s bad. So bad that when you watch her “emotional” scenes you do wonder if she has emotions at all. But this show is unwatchable beyond the Kim K of it all.
The dialogue is cheesy and the characters all feel weirdly one note and all playing the same tune. Truly the show started and I asked myself “Did I miss something?” No. The show just randomly starts in the middle of their decision to leave their old firm and you have the barest of ideas as to why. Instead of doing…anything else to show us that?
What is the tone of All’s Fair?!
I am someone who loves Scream Queens as a show and All’s Fair feels like a mix between that kind of comedy but looks and should feel like one of his more serious FX shows. Instead, it just lands somewhere between trying to be funny and also trying too hard to be serious. And it does not work well together at all.
Not only are these characters not likable but it just feels like what Ryan Murphy thinks is feminism and doesn’t have any real character depth or emotion in it. And sure, I am only two episodes in but given the 6% rating on Rotten Tomatoes for the show, I’m exactly hopeful that things improve as the show goes on.
So again, I ask: What are we doing with this show?!
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