For once, all the critics agree! When it comes to the new Ryan Murphy legal drama All’s Fair — starring Kim Kardashian, Naomi Watts, Glenn Close, Niecy Nash-Betts, Sarah Paulson and Teyana Taylor — the verdict is in: guilty of being “empty,” “stiff,” and “terrible.”
The Hulu series follows three lawyers — Allura Grant (Kardashian), Liberty Ronson (Watts), and Emerald Greene (Nash-Betts) — who strike out on their own to help women in need of a tough divorce lawyer.
The Hollywood Reporter’s Angie Han calls the show “empty” and “unforgivably dull,” writing, “Really, the show is here to serve fierce looks, bitchy one-liners and big juicy moments, with severely mixed results.” Han adds that while the high fashion is undeniable, “the series completely fails when it comes to minting memorable quotes, because when the dialogue isn’t so bland it borders on inane (‘I failed. I hate failing,’ Allura pouts), it’s so extravagantly profane as to be exhausting.”
Kim Kardashian, Niecy Nash-Betts in ‘All’s Fair’Disney/Ser Baffo
Over at The Guardian, Lucy Mangan declares that not even acclaimed actress Glenn Close can save what she dubs the “Ryan Murphy disaster,” writing, “I did not know it was still possible to make television this bad.” She goes on to describe it as, “fascinatingly, incomprehensibly, existentially terrible.”
The show, created by Murphy along with Jon Robin Baitz and Joe Baken, is executive produced by Kardashian and her mother, Kris Jenner.
The Times’ Ben Dowell doesn’t hold back either, calling it “the worst TV drama ever” and giving it zero out of five stars. “All’s Fair (Disney+) is so bad, it’s not even enjoyably so,” he writes. “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. All scripted, it feels, by a toddler who couldn’t write ‘bum’ on a wall.”
And just to drive the point home, The Telegraph’s Ed Power simply brands the show “a crime against television.”