Ryan Murphy’s latest legal drama All’s Fair, starring Kim Kardashian, has been met with overwhelmingly negative reviews, with several major outlets labeling it one of the worst television shows ever produced.
The Hulu and Disney+ series, which premiered its first three episodes this week, follows a team of female divorce attorneys in Los Angeles navigating high-stakes breakups, secrets, and power dynamics. Despite its glossy premise and star-studded cast including Naomi Watts, Niecy Nash-Betts, Teyana Taylor, Sarah Paulson, and Glenn Close the show has been widely panned by critics for poor writing, direction, and performances.
In a brutal zero-star review published by The Times, deputy TV editor Ben Dowell wrote, “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 continued, calling All’s Fair “a tacky and revolting monument to the same greed, vanity and avarice it supposedly targets,” and compared its script to something “written by a toddler.”
The Guardian’s Lucy Mangan echoed that sentiment, also awarding the show zero stars. “I did not know it was still possible to make television this bad,” she wrote. Mangan described the series as “fascinatingly, incomprehensibly, existentially terrible,” criticizing both its execution and lack of coherence.
The Telegraph’s Ed Power was equally scathing, calling the series a “disaster zone of soapy plotting and reeking dialogue.” He singled out Kardashian’s performance as “stilted” and devoid of charisma, adding that she “has a Zzzzzz… quality that threatens to lull the unprepared viewer into a stupor.”
Dowell further remarked, “Does Kardashian make a convincing lawyer? No, she does not. She is to acting what Genghis Khan is to a peaceful liberal democracy,” pointing to “a tsunami of clunking cliché that drowns this whole enterprise in the first five minutes.”
Even Glamour’s Emily Maddick criticized Murphy’s creative direction, writing that the acclaimed producer seems to have been “fully Kardashian-ified.” She added, “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.”
Despite the backlash, All’s Fair, which marks Kardashian’s second collaboration with Ryan Murphy after American Horror Story: Delicate, continues to release new episodes every Tuesday on Hulu and Disney+. Kardashian also serves as an executive producer alongside Murphy and Kris Jenner.
With its zero-star reviews and brutal criticism from major outlets, All’s Fair has quickly become one of the most ridiculed TV debuts of 2025.
Source: Variety
