Kim Kardashian finished law studies after six years, and she’s using her eduction for something strange: to star in a television show. Kardashian isn’t the only notable figure in this disaster of a performance, ‘All Fair’ stars well-known actresses Sarah Paulson, Niecy Nash and Naomi Watts.
Produced by Hulu and created by esteemed director Ryan Murphy of American Horror Story, Glee and Monster, the show does not live up to those expectations.
The show earned a 5% on RottenTomatoes and 2.9 out of 10 starts on iMBD – the reviews making it the worst show of the year.
The Guardian described the show has “Fascinatingly, incomprehensibly, existentially terrible.”
New York Magazine’s Vulture critic Roxana Hadadi called out Murphy in her review. “At his best, Murphy is a connoisseur of low culture, a maestro of story lines that play out at a buzzsaw pace, a sculptor of characters who spit out corrosive one-liners and gnaw through scenery, an architect of goofy sex scenes, and a mastermind at presenting exploitation as empowerment,” she said. “’All’s Fair’ is cotton-candy TV: sticky, airy, and, once it’s all gone, both satisfying and nausea inducing.”
Another review from The Hollywood Reporter discussed the lead-actress, “But 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.”
These reviews may be harsh, but the show deserves the comments.
The show opens with a flashback – two women decided to leave their misogynistic law firm and start their own that would be completely run by women for women. This feminist movement sounds fun on paper; however, the women are basically throwing temper tantrums, especially Sarah Paulson’s character, Carrington Lane, who was not invited to join the women and makes her anger obvious.
After the title sequence, Kardashian’s character Allura Grant, drives up to a large home that seems to belong to her, showcasing her success. The writing for this scene, and honestly the whole show, is so bad. Kardashian’s husband forgets their five year anniversary because “it’s football season” and tells her to “come to daddy” not longer after. Ten minutes in, I was uncomfortable and over this show, but I kept watching.
After I heard the line “We are mama grizzlies. You let us handle the wolf,” I decided to turn off the show – which was about 25 minutes into the first episode when the three lawyers meet with a divorce client. The performance felt unrealistic and cheap.
All’s Fair is a disgusting portrayal of the talents of Paulson, Nash, Watts and, even, Murphy. I wonder if the three stars were just slow on work and their agents handed them the first show they could land. Instead of mass producing bad television, Hollywood should get back to making authentically good shows for fans to enjoy and not turn off halfway through the first episode.
Please someone take Murphy’s pen away and tell Kardashian to actually get a job.