Critics' Unanimous Dislike for Ryan Murphy's 'All's Fair': A Legal Drama with a Missed Mark
In a rare unanimous verdict, critics have slammed Ryan Murphy's latest creation, the Hulu series 'All's Fair'. The legal drama, starring Kim Kardashian, Naomi Watts, Glenn Close, Niecy Nash-Betts, Sarah Paulson, and Teyana Taylor, has been described as 'empty', 'stiff', and 'terrible'.
The show follows three ambitious female lawyers, Allura Grant (Kardashian), Liberty Ronson (Watts), and Emerald Greene (Nash-Betts), as they venture into the world of tough divorce law. However, critics have found the series lacking in substance and impact.
Angie Han from The Hollywood Reporter calls the show 'empty' and 'unforgivably dull', criticizing its failure to deliver memorable dialogue. While the high fashion and bitchy one-liners are noted, the overall experience is described as 'severely mixed'. Han adds, 'the series completely fails when it comes to minting memorable quotes, because when the dialogue isn’t so bland it borders on inane... it’s so extravagantly profane as to be exhausting'.
Lucy Mangan of The Guardian declares the show a 'Ryan Murphy disaster', stating, 'I did not know it was still possible to make television this bad'. She describes it as 'fascinatingly, incomprehensibly, existentially terrible'.
Ben Dowell from The Times is even more critical, labeling the show 'the worst TV drama ever' and giving it a zero-star rating. He writes, 'All's Fair is so bad, it’s not even enjoyably so... 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'.
Ed Power from The Telegraph goes further, branding the show 'a crime against television'.
Despite the harsh reviews, 'All's Fair' is executive produced by Kardashian and her mother, Kris Jenner, adding an interesting layer to the controversy.
