All’s Fair, Ryan Murphy’s latest splashy drama, might have all of the buzz, but it has none of the critical acclaim.
Reviews coming out about the legal drama aren’t mincing words about the series and Kim Kardashian’s performance. According to Variety, The Times’ TV editor Ben Dowell wrote, “[T]his may be the worst TV drama ever.”
“Well done, Kim. You must have quite a healthy ego yourself to star in what may well be the worst television drama ever made. Because All’s Fair (Disney+) is so bad, it’s not even enjoyably so,” he continued. “It thinks it’s 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’t write ‘bum’ on a wall.”
What are the reviews for ‘All’s Fair’ saying?
Forbes cites The Telegraph’s Ed Power, who called the series “a crime against television” and ‘one of the worst things [Murphy] has ever done.” He also went on to single out Kardashian as having “no aura, no unfiltered charisma” and a “complete absence of screen presence.” However, he said, that the entire cast’s acting is just as “awful.”
Kelly Lawler of USA Today also wrote, according to Forbes, that All’s Fair is 2025’s worst television show.
Lawler described the show as 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.” Once again, Kardashian was singled out for having “bland line readings” that can’t bring her any closer “to the title of ‘actress.'”
Angie Han of The Hollywood Reporter is also cited as calling Kardashian “stiff and affectless without a single authentic note.” She also said the writing is simultaneously “so bland it borders on inane” and “extravagantly profane as to be exhausting.”
The Guardian’s Lucy Mangan also let the chopper sing for her review of All’s Fair, giving the series zero stars. According to Variety, Mangan wrote, “I did not know it was still possible to make television this bad.”
“I assumed that there was some sort of baseline, some inescapable bedrock of 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,” she wrote. “The new series from Ryan Murphy…is terrible. Fascinatingly, incomprehensibly, existentially terrible.”
How many episodes of ‘All’s Fair’ are out now?
Apart from Kardashian, All’s Fair stars Niecy Nash-Betts, Teyana Taylor, Glenn Close, Sarah Paulson and Naomi Watts as high-powered female divorce lawyers. The first three episodes of the series are now streaming on Hulu and Disney+.