The Most Ruthless Reviews Of Kim Kardashian’s Zero-Percent Bomb ‘All’s Fair’

When the review embargo lifted on Hulu’s Ryan Murphy-created legal drama All’s Fair, starring Kim Kardashian, Glenn Close and Sarah Paulson among other major names, the series’ RottenTomatoes score fell one percent short of meeting the mark set by Kardashian’s feature film debut Disaster Movie.

In the modern age of media criticism, many reviewers attempt to grade each new streaming series on its ability to algorithmically capture a niche, targeted audience that responds to buzzwords like “high-stakes,” “scandalous secrets” and “serving c**t.” This bespoke approach to criticism attempts to meet each show on its own terms and understand the market forces behind its inception, and it allows many of the most mind-numbingly awful shows on television to earn middling scores in the 40s and 50s on the review aggregator RottenTomatoes.

So when a new series can’t manage to impress one single critic during the first round of reviews, you know that the show in question is truly, deeply, painfully unwatchable. According to the initial reception to All's Fair, which premiered on streaming yesterday, Murphy and his star-studded cast have made such a series, and the critical community is taking the show's very regrettable existence as a personal offense.

Earning headlines like “Kim Kardashian's new legal drama is a crime against television” and “This may be the worst TV drama ever," All's Fair is already the #1 show on the critical shit list. Australian reviewer Wenlei Ma wrote of All's Fair, "It's not a hate-watch, this is unwatchable," calling its premise “a gross celebration of 2010s-era glossy girlboss feminism” that was only further weighed down by the enormity of Kardashian's emptiness. Said Ma, "There’s almost no point in criticising her acting because she’s not an actor."

Among a sea of creative misfires, the performance of Kardashian, who also serves as a producer on the show, has been the focal point of the most brutal All's Fair reviews. In Angie Han's review of the series for The Hollywood Reporter, she called Kardashian “an appropriately wooden lead for Ryan Murphy’s empty, unforgivably dull Hulu drama” – and that was only in the headline. “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,” Han wrote.

The Guardian's Lucy Mangan called All's Fair “fascinatingly, existentially terrible,” and alleged that the show's A-list star and producer must have booked her powerhouse and much more talented cast mates through some unsavory methods. Said Mangan of Close's appearance in the series, “I cannot imagine what kompromat the Kardashian clan have on her that led to her participation in this dreadful business.” Still, Mangan was comparatively kind to Kardashian's performance, writing that the reality TV star “is as expressionless as you might expect, but is at least inoffensively useless.”

But while the television critics who take their jobs and their subjects equally seriously may find All's Fair to be insultingly horrible in premise, form and execution, for many of Kardashian's fans, that's exactly the point of the Keeping Up with the Kardashians star's latest venture. “All’s Fair on Hulu dares to ask the question ‘Does a show need to be good?’ & the answer is no, it doesn’t,” one such watcher wrote on Twitter, “We have legendary actresses here giving the worst performances of their careers, it takes a special kind of talent to pull that kind of inability out of them. Amazeballs.”