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Kim Kardashian is getting scathing reviews for her leading turn in Ryan Murphy\u2019s new legal television drama, \u201cAll\u2019s Fair,\u201d in which the billionaire influencer plays the owner of a divorce law firm, with critics slamming her acting as wooden, and one reviewer saying the series might be \u201cthe worst TV drama ever.\u201d <\/p>\n
Kim Kardashian’s performance in “All’s Fair” has been panned by critics. (Photo by Dave Benett\/Getty Images for Disney+)<\/p>\n
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The first three episodes of \u201cAll\u2019s Fair\u201d dropped on Hulu on Tuesday, with Kardashian leading a cast that includes award-winning actors Glenn Close, Naomi Watts, Sarah Paulson, Niecy Nash and Teyana Taylor. <\/p>\n
Kardashian, who says she is also trying to become a lawyer, plays the owner of a firm staffed entirely by women specializing in divorce law, representing only women clients.<\/p>\n
Kardashian and her mother, Kris Jenner, are executive producers on the show, and Kardashian has said her character was inspired by celebrity divorce lawyer Laura Wasser, who was Kardashian\u2019s attorney for her divorces from Kanye West and Kris Humphries.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll\u2019s Fair\u201d has a 0% score on Rotten Tomatoes<\/a> and an 11% score on review aggregator Metacritic<\/a>, indicating \u201coverwhelming dislike.\u201d<\/p>\n Chief Critics<\/p>\n The Guardian<\/a> critic Lucy Mangan gave the series a 0-star rating and called it \u201cfascinatingly, existentially terrible,\u201d calling Kardashian\u2019s performance \u201cexpressionless\u201d and \u201cuseless,\u201d though she also criticized the other performances and said \u201cno one seems to know what they\u2019re doing; the performances seem to respond to about nine different ideas of what the show is.\u201d The Times of London<\/a> critic Ben Dowell said \u201cAll\u2019s Fair\u201d might be the \u201cworst TV drama ever,\u201d also giving it a dismal 0-star rating. Dowell blamed writer-creator Murphy and said the show attempts to be a \u201cfeminist 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,\u201d also singling out Kardashian for failing to play a convincing lawyer. The Telegraph<\/a> critic Ed Power gave the series one star and slammed it as a \u201ccrime against television,\u201d calling it \u201cone of the worst things [Murphy] has ever done.\u201d Power said Kardashian has \u201cno aura, no unfiltered charisma\u201d and a \u201ccomplete absence of screen presence,\u201d but said it is unfair to single her out because the acting is \u201cawful\u201d all around. The Hollywood Reporter<\/a> critic Angie Han said Kardashian\u2019s performance is \u201cstiff and affectless without a single authentic note,\u201d though she also blamed the writing, stating \u201cwhen the dialogue isn\u2019t so bland it borders on inane, it\u2019s so extravagantly profane as to be exhausting.\u201d USA Today\u2019s<\/a> Kelly Lawler called \u201cAll\u2019s Fair\u201d the worst show of the year, calling it an \u201cembarrassingly terrible show with scripts worse than what Chat GPT was spitting out two years ago and acting worse than your local Christmas pageant,\u201d adding Kardashian\u2019s \u201cbland line readings can’t give her anything close to the title of \u2018actress.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n When And Where Is \u2018all\u2019s Fair\u2019 Streaming?<\/p>\n The first three episodes of \u201cAll\u2019s Fair\u201d released Nov. 4 on Hulu. Subsequent episodes will release weekly on Tuesdays.<\/p>\n Key Background<\/p>\n Kardashian and Murphy previously collaborated on \u201cAmerican Horror Story: Delicate,\u201d the twelfth season of Murphy\u2019s long-running horror anthology series. That effort received much better reviews, scoring a 77% on Rotten Tomatoes<\/a> with some praise for Kardashian\u2019s performance. In a critical review of the series, USA Today\u2019s<\/a> Patrick Ryan called Kardashian the only reason to watch, stating she \u201ccleverly\u201d leans into a Valley girl persona while playing a Hollywood publicist. <\/p>\n Tangent<\/p>\n Murphy, a prolific television producer, has won six Emmys<\/a> and earned dozens more nominations for his television shows, though critical responses to his shows tend to vary. Murphy is known for creating shows like \u201cGlee,\u201d \u201cAmerican Horror Story,\u201d \u201c9-1-1\u201d and \u201cPose,\u201d which were positively received and have won awards. But despite winning Emmys for his recent hit, \u201cMonster,\u201d an anthology series that has covered real-life cases including Jeffrey Dahmer, Erik and Lyle Menendez and Ed Gein, the series has garnered mostly negative reviews<\/a> with some critics accusing him of exploiting<\/a> real-life victims.<\/p>\n Further Reading<\/p>\n