Kim Kardashian’s New Show ‘All’s Fair’ Gets Eviscerated by Critics
Kim Kardashian’s new TV series All’s Fair has hit streaming platforms, and critics are not holding back. The legal drama, created by Ryan Murphy, premiered on Hulu and Disney+ on November 4, with a cast that includes Glenn Close, Naomi Watts, Niecy Nash, Sarah Paulson, and Teyana Taylor. Despite the big names attached, the show has been met with brutal reviews from both U.K. and U.S. critics.
The series follows a group of female lawyers who start their own divorce law firm in Los Angeles. The story aims to show ambitious women dealing with love, power, and betrayal in a world driven by money and status. But critics say the show completely misses the mark, describing it as messy, over-the-top, and painfully bad.
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The Times’ deputy TV editor Ben Dowell gave the show zero stars, calling it “the worst television drama ever made.” In his review, he said, “Well done, Kim. You must have quite a healthy ego yourself to star in what may well be the worst television drama ever made.” Dowell went on to write that the show “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.”
Lucy Mangan of The Guardian had a similar take, also giving it zero stars. She wrote, “I did not know it was still possible to make television this bad. I assumed that there was some sort of baseline, some inescapable bedrock knowledge of how to do it that now prevents any entry into the art form from falling below a certain standard. But I was wrong.” Mangan described the show as “fascinatingly, incomprehensibly, existentially terrible.”
Critics have especially targeted Kim Kardashian’s performance as Allura Grant, saying her acting feels forced and unnatural. The Daily Telegraph’s Ed Power called Murphy “the high priest of tacky, tasteless television” and said that with All’s Fair, he has “outdone himself with a show of mind-bending horror sure to trigger nightmares in the unsuspecting viewer.”
Even with its glossy look and strong cast, All’s Fair has quickly become one of the most heavily criticized shows of the year. Reviewers say the series is trying too hard to be bold and glamorous but ends up being confusing and shallow instead.
In my opinion, this kind of harsh reaction shows how high expectations were for both Ryan Murphy and Kim Kardashian. Murphy has built his career on flashy and dramatic shows, while Kardashian’s acting debut was always going to draw attention. Maybe the problem isn’t just the acting or the writing, it might be that the show doesn’t know what it wants to be.
What do you think? Did the critics go too far, or does All’s Fair deserve the backlash? Share your thoughts in the comments.
