{"id":163847,"date":"2025-11-05T07:47:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T07:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/163847\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T07:47:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T07:47:08","slug":"what-the-critics-are-saying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/163847\/","title":{"rendered":"What the Critics Are Saying"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tRyan Murphy<\/a>\u2019s latest legal drama All\u2019s Fair debuted on Hulu<\/a> Tuesday, and the cast and crew behind the show may not think its less-than-shining reviews are all that fair.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe series centers around a group of female divorce lawyers who leave their previous firm to create their own woman-only practice. All\u2019s Fair certainly sports a star-studded slate<\/a>, with Kim Kardashian<\/a>, Naomi Watts, Niecy Nash-Betts, Teyana Taylor, Matthew Noszka, Sarah Paulson<\/a> and Glenn Close making up the cast.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tDespite an enticing list of stars, critics have not been too fond of the series. As of mid-day Tuesday, the series had a zero percent<\/a> critics rating on Rotten Tomatoes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tBelow, read what critics are saying about Murphy\u2019s All\u2019s Fair.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Hollywood Reporter\u2019s TV critic Angie Han called the series \u201cbrain dead\u201d and further wrote<\/a> in her review, \u201cThe drama generally falls flat, too, at delivering the sort of watercooler \u2014 or to put it in more 2025 terms, TikTok-friendly \u2014 moments it seems reverse-engineered to create. It\u2019s not for a lack of wild overreactions\u2026 These characters are so thin, their storylines so flimsy and their motives so underbaked that there\u2019s no recognizable emotion underlying any of it, and thus no feeling to be provoked by watching it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHan additionally wrote that \u201cKardashian\u2019s performance, stiff and affectless without a single authentic note, is exactly what the writing, also stiff and affectless without a single authentic note, merits. Her very presence, which succeeds at generating buzz and not much else, feels fitting for a show that seems to want not to be watched so much as mined for viral bits and pieces.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tLucy Mangan of The Guardian<\/a> wrote, \u201cI 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\u2019s Fair \u2014 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 \u2014 is terrible. Fascinatingly, incomprehensibly, existentially terrible.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Daily Telegraph\u2019s Ed Power gave All\u2019s Fair a one star rating, critiquing Murphy in his review. \u201cRyan Murphy is the high priest of tacky, tasteless television, and this year he has outdone himself with a show of mind-bending horror sure to trigger nightmares in the unsuspecting viewer,\u201d he wrote<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Times\u2019 Ben Dowell similarly condemned Kardashian\u2019s performance, writing<\/a> that the reality star \u201cmust have quite a healthy ego yourself to star in what may well be the worst television drama ever made.\u201d He continued, \u201cBecause All\u2019s Fair (Disney<\/a>+) is so bad, it\u2019s not even enjoyably so. It thinks it\u2019s 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\u2019t write \u2018bum\u2019 on a wall.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tUSA Today\u2018s Kelly Lawler called<\/a> the Hulu drama \u201cthe worst TV show of the year.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cFair (now streaming, [one star] out of four) doesn\u2019t have a single one of those redeeming qualities. An embarrassingly terrible show with scripts worse than what Chat GPT was spitting out two years ago and acting worse than your local Christmas pageant, Fair is an unmitigated disaster of such outlandish proportions it\u2019s a wonder not a single person in the production process didn\u2019t stop and ask \u2018What are we doing here?\u2019 to their fellows,\u201d Lawler continued. \u201cAnd lest you think that it is the kind of \u2018bad\u2019 that is messy and fun and ripe for hate-watching, I will disappoint you further: It\u2019s so stilted, artificial and awkward not even a glass of wine and leftover Halloween candy can make it remotely enjoyable to view.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ryan Murphy\u2019s latest legal drama All\u2019s Fair debuted on Hulu Tuesday, and the cast and crew behind the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[265],"tags":[1887,18,117,13930,19,17,4113,4950,128],"class_list":{"0":"post-163847","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-disney","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-hulu","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-kim-kardashian","15":"tag-ryan-murphy","16":"tag-tv"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115495989879609315","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}