- - Kim Kardashian's “All's Fair” gets slammed by critics: 'Fascinatingly, incomprehensibly, existentially terrible'

Wesley StenzelNovember 6, 2025 at 2:37 AM

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Kim Kardashian on 'All's Fair'

Kim Kardashian's dramatic work isn't earning stellar marks from critics.

All's Fair, the latest Hulu drama from uber-producer Ryan Murphy, currently stands at a staggering 6% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with just one out of 17 reviews giving the legal series a positive rating.

The show, which also stars Emmy-winning actors like Niecy Nash-Betts and Sarah Paulson as well as Oscar nominees like Naomi Watts and Glenn Close, has received scathingly negative reviews for its dialogue, performances, and perceived lack of genuine interest in the work and interiority of the divorce lawyers at its center.

The Guardian described the show as "fascinatingly, incomprehensibly, existentially terrible" in its zero-star review — a score that it has only bestowed upon 14 other works in any medium in the publication's history, three of which were TV shows (Love Island season 7, Sex: Unzipped season 1, and Buying London season 1).

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Kim Kardashian and Naomi Watts on 'All's Fair'

Meanwhile, fellow U.K. outlet The Times posited that All's Fair "may well be the worst television drama ever made," slamming Kardashian's performance ("She is to acting what Genghis Khan is to a peaceful liberal democracy") and opining that the dialogue is "a tsunami of clunking cliché that drowns this whole enterprise in the first five minutes" of the first episode. "It's so steeped in its noxiously dumb stream of feminist sloganising, and our heroines are so dreadful, that it sometimes feels as if it doesn't even like women very much," the review concludes.

THR's take on the series was similarly negative, though the publication argued that the reality star is a perfect fit for the material. "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," the outlet's review reads.

Variety highlighted Nash-Betts' performance as one of the show's only bright spots, and argued that the rest of the series is a "clumsy, condescending take on rah-rah girlboss feminism, half-baked even by the standards of an overextended Murphy." The review likened the series to an overindulgence on sweets: "The show skips straight to dessert without building any connective tissue in the form of character depth or believable tension. Like all sugar rushes, the high fades fast and you’re left with a stomachache."

Vulture made a similar comparison, dubbing the series "cotton-candy TV" because it's "sticky, airy, and, once it’s all gone, both satisfying and nausea inducing." The review also characterized the show as "a diorama of a legal drama more than it actually is a legal drama, a show about contested divorces that doesn’t spend any time in front of a judge in its first three episodes," and slammed the series for an "insidious vein of Islamophobia."

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Niecy Nash-Betts, Glenn Close, and Kim Kardashian on 'All's Fair'

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Consequence's review opined that the show "feels like a fever dream, a peek into an alternate universe occupied by creatures who might look vaguely human but do not speak or act as you and I do." The outlet noted that the show might have intentionally aimed to be campy…"but camp’s supposed to be fun."

The lone positive review on the show's Rotten Tomatoes page came from Decider, which conceded that the series is "over the top and campy as hell" but argued that it possesses enough self-awareness to still be "watchable" despite "stilted, campy dialogue that doesn’t at all feel like real human conversation."

The first three episodes of All's Fair are now streaming on Hulu.

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