‘A Tacky And Revolting Monument To Greed.’ Kim Kardashian’s All’s Fair Premieres to 0% On Rotten Tomatoes, As Critics Bemoan The ‘Dreadful’ Legal Drama

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Kim Kardashian became famous as a reality star, but recently impressed audiences with her acting in American Horror Story: Delicate. Because of that success, it’s no surprise she’s teaming up with producer Ryan Murphy again. Their new project, All’s Fair, is a legal drama set to premiere on November 4, 2025, and early reviews are generating a lot of buzz.

The new Hulu series All’s Fair features Kim Kardashian alongside a talented cast including Naomi Watts, Niecy Nash, Glenn Close, Sarah Paulson, and Teyana Taylor, all playing high-powered divorce lawyers. Despite the impressive lineup, the show has received overwhelmingly negative reviews, currently holding a 0% score on Rotten Tomatoes and being called “the worst television drama ever made.” According to Angie Han of The Hollywood Reporter, the show fails to convincingly portray female empowerment, suffers from a wooden and unnatural script, and unfortunately highlights Kardashian’s acting limitations when placed alongside more experienced performers. Han elaborates further:

While ‘All’s Fair’ occasionally hits on genuine emotion or a clear story, it mostly feels accidental. The show prioritizes striking visuals, snappy insults, and dramatic scenes, but doesn’t always succeed. The characters lack depth, their plots are weak, and their reasons for acting are unclear, making it hard to connect with them or feel anything while watching.

Lucy Mangan, writing for The Guardian, has given the series a zero-star rating, describing it as strangely, bafflingly, and profoundly bad. She criticizes its approach to female empowerment, calls the kissing scenes awful, and suggests the actors appear lost and unsure of their roles. She further elaborated on these points, stating…

The script isn’t the only problem – the acting is also quite bad. It’s hard to deliver a great performance when you’re asked to do something ridiculous, like Sarah Paulson’s character screaming about home perms while destroying an office. It’s understandable that the actors struggle in those moments.

In a Variety article, Alison Herman notes that despite the show’s theme of female empowerment, only one episode prominently features a female creative credited—and that credit is shared between executive producer Jamie Pachino and co-creator Ryan Murphy. Herman also observes that, despite a strong cast, the writing often relies on humiliating the female characters.

All’s Fair feels awkward and talks down to its audience with a shallow version of empowering feminism, even for a director who often overreaches. While it tries for a playfully exaggerated tone and hints at being a satire, it’s ultimately insulting, assuming viewers will enjoy it simply because it offers quick, sassy lines, flashy costumes, and complaints about men. It underestimates its audience, expecting them to be easily entertained by superficial content.

In a review for The Times UK, Ben Dowell argues the show falls short of being truly feminist. He criticizes the writing as awkward and full of clichés, and points to excessive brand mentions and a focus on materialism. Dowell goes so far as to call it potentially ‘the worst television drama ever made,’ giving it a rating of zero out of five stars.

“All’s Fair” isn’t even entertainingly bad – it completely misses the mark. While it tries to present itself as a feminist story about strong female lawyers fighting against wealthy, unkind men, it actually celebrates the very greed and selfishness it claims to oppose. The film is overloaded with simplistic feminist messaging, and its main characters are so unlikeable that it almost feels hostile towards women.

In a review for Glamour, Emily Maddick criticizes the show All’s Fair, finding it emotionally flat and lacking in appeal, even though it moves quickly and has surprising plot twists. She describes it as feeling overly focused on wealth and status, suggesting it promotes the idea that viewers should emulate the lifestyles of the ultra-rich.

The new series, All’s Fair, misses the mark when it tries to be over-the-top and playful, instead feeling surprisingly bland. The show heavily emphasizes the lavish lifestyles of its main characters – divorce lawyers Allura, Liberty Ronson, and Emerald Greene – using slow-motion and dramatic shots that are common in reality TV, from shows like The Kardashians and Selling Sunset to The Real Housewives. However, these techniques don’t quite land, leaving the presentation feeling empty.

Critics haven’t been kind to All’s Fair, but general audiences seem to be enjoying it despite its over-the-top nature. Currently, it has a 54% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes.

You can now watch the first three episodes of Kim Kardashian’s first starring role in the series All’s Fair on Hulu. New episodes will be released every Tuesday, with a total of ten episodes.

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2025-11-05 08:09