FX's All's Fair Slammed As 'Worst TV Drama Ever' By Scathing Critics

All’s Fair is being dubbed the “worst TV drama ever” as critics eviscerate FX’s new series. Co-created by Ryan Murphy, the legal drama stars Kim Kardashian as Allura Grant, a successful divorce attorney and owner of an all-female law firm in Los Angeles.

Shortly after its three-episode premiere on Hulu on November 4, critics are eviscerating All’s Fair, with the range of reviews calling it “existentially terrible,” “tacky,” a “disaster zone,” and much more. In a rare zero-star review published by The Times and headlined “this may be the worst TV drama ever,” Ben Dowell writes:

Well done, Kim. You must have quite a healthy ego yourself to star in what may well be the worst television drama ever made. Because All’s Fair (Disney+) is so bad, it’s not even enjoyably so. 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.

Does Kardashian (who plans to take bar exams, we are told) make a convincing lawyer? No, she does not. She is to acting what Genghis Khan is to a peaceful liberal democracy, though of course the dialogue — a tsunami of clunking cliché that drowns this whole enterprise in the first five minutes — doesn’t help her cause.

Lucy Mangan of The Guardian also awarded the series a zero-star rating and wrote in her review:

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. The new series from Ryan Murphy, All’s Fair – starring Kim Kardashian, Naomi Watts and Niecy Nash as the founders of an all-female law firm delivering divorce-y justice to incredibly rich but slightly unlucky women under the azure skies of California – is terrible. Fascinatingly, incomprehensibly, existentially terrible.

The majority of reviews criticize the acting, especially Kim Kardashian’s, with Ed Power of The Telegraph writing:

Amid this disaster zone of soapy plotting and reeking dialogue, it is perhaps unfair to single out Kardashian. Her participation is just one disaster among many (she is an executive producer alongside her mother and manager, Kris Jenner). Yet there is no glossing over her stilted acting, already confirmed by her guest appearance in season 12 of Murphy’s American Horror Story. Even more striking than her lack of thespian chops, however, is her complete absence of screen presence. She has no aura, no unfiltered charisma. Forget an X factor, Kardashian has a Zzzzzz… quality that threatens to lull the unprepared viewer into a stupor whenever she opens her mouth.

Emily Maddic of Glamour likens All’s Fair to an episode of The Kardashians, writing in her review:

And after sitting through the first episode of All’s Fair, if “aspirational” is what they’re aiming for, then god help us all. For it seems that Ryan Murphy, arguably one of the hottest names in TV, with countless brilliant and diverse, award-winning shows under his belt, including Glee, American Horror Story, Pose, Scream Queens and Nip Tuck, has been fully Kardashian-ified. He’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.”

Kelly Lawler of USA Today calls All’s Fair “the worst TV show of the year,” while Angie Han of The Hollywood Reporter writes:

Kim Kardashian is an appropriately wooden lead for Ryan Murphy’s empty, unforgivably dull Hulu drama… Kardashian’s performance, stiff and affectless without a single authentic note, is exactly what the writing, also stiff and affectless without a single authentic note, merits.

Dustin Rowles, Pajiba:

It’s all just painfully hard to watch. It’s beneath everyone involved, even Kardashian, who mostly seems bored. She’s not alone. The absurdity occasionally earns a guffaw, but it’s not enough to offset the tedium.

The full synopsis for All’s Fair reads, “Fierce, brilliant, and emotionally complicated, they navigate high-stakes breakups, scandalous secrets, and shifting allegiances — both in the courtroom and within their own ranks. In a world where money talks and love is a battleground, these women don’t just play the game—they change it.”

In addition to Kim Kardashian, marking her second collaboration with Ryan Murphy following American Horror Story season 12: Delicate, All’s Fair also stars two-time Oscar nominee Naomi Watts (21 Grams, The Impossible), Emmy winner Niecy Nash (Monster), Teyana Taylor (One Battle After Another), Emmy winner Sarah Paulson (American Crime Story), and eight-time Oscar nominee Glenn Close.

Kim Kardashian in All's Fair
Kim Kardashian in All’s Fair

With five reviews at the time of writing, All’s Fair has debuted to a rare 0% Rotten Tomatoes score. If you enjoy watching wooden acting and stilted dialogue, All’s Fair is for you. Otherwise, save your sanity, as Ryan Murphy’s latest show is a catastrophic masterclass in self-destruction.

All’s Fair airs new episodes on Tuesdays on Hulu and Disney+.

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