Ryan Murphy‘s “All’s Fair” Faces Harsh Criticism

Critics and TV journalists are eviscerating Ryan Murphy’s “All’s Fair,” starring Kim Kardashian, calling the new legal drama “existentially terrible,” “tacky” and a “disaster zone.”

the series, whose first three episodes are now available on Hulu and Disney+, follows a team of female divorce attorneys who open their own practice in L.A. “Fierce, brilliant, and emotionally elaborate, they navigate high-stakes breakups, scandalous secrets, and shifting allegiances – both in the courtroom and within their own ranks.In a world where money talks and love is a battleground, these women don’t just play the game-they change it,” a synopsis reads.

Along with Kardashian, the 10-episode series stars Naomi Watts, Niecy Nash-Betts, Teyana Taylor, Sarah Paulson and Glenn Close.

In The Times’ zero-star review of the series, headlined “All’s Fair review: this may be the worst TV drama ever,” deputy TV editor Ben Dowell wrote: “Well done, Kim. You must have quite a healthy ego yourself too star in what may well be the worst television drama ever made. Becuase ‘All’s Fair’ (Disney+) 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.”

Guardian TV critic Lucy Mangan also gave the series a zero-star rating, writing in her review, “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 knowlege of how to do it that