All’s Fair review – Kim Kardashian’s divorce drama is fascinatingly, existentially terrible
Not even Glenn Close can rescue this Ryan Murphy disaster from its dull plots, lost characters, and some of the most awkward kissing scenes ever filmed. I truly did not think it was still possible to create television this bad. One might assume that modern production standards would prevent any show from sinking this low, but apparently not.
The new Ryan Murphy series All’s Fair stars Kim Kardashian, Naomi Watts, and Niecy Nash as founders of an all-female law firm that fights for wealthy but unlucky women seeking divorce justice under California’s endless blue skies. The result, though, is an astonishingly poor piece of TV — at once fascinating and nonsensical in its awfulness.
Dialogue samples that define the absurdity
“Let’s put the ‘team’ in ‘teamwork’.”
“My flight was turbulent and so is my mood,” says Liberty (Watts) to a man obstructing her from meeting a client.
“He’s wolf-like in his possessiveness,” says a client about her husband.
The writing is so painfully contrived that it borders on contemptuous toward its audience. Despite the presence of talented names, blame lies squarely with Murphy and co-creators Jon Robin Baitz and Joe Baken.
Author’s summary
Ryan Murphy’s All’s Fair is a misguided melodrama where star power and style collapse beneath absurd writing and emotional emptiness.