All’s Fair, the latest legal drama from megaproducer Ryan Murphy (Glee, The Prom) that debuted Tuesday on Hulu, has immediately been met with sour reviews and is even being called “the worst TV show of the year,” according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The series follows a group of female divorce lawyers who leave their previous firm to create their own woman-only practice, according to an official synopsis from The Hollywood Reporter, and features a glitzy lineup including Kim Kardashian (The Kardashians, Ocean’s Eight), Naomi Watts (Too Much, Mulholland Drive), Niecy Nash-Betts (Guess Who, Claws), Teyana Taylor (One Battle After Another, Straw), Matthew Noszka (Let It Snow, Star), Sarah Paulson (The Bear, 12 Years a Slave) and Glenn Close (Tehran, Fatal Attraction).
However, the star-studded cast could not hold off critics who immediately called out the series for being formulaic and one-dimensional. According to The Hollywood Reporter, All’s Fair sported a zero percent critics rating on Rotten Tomatoes as of mid-Tuesday.
Angie Han, a TV critic for The Hollywood Reporter, attacked the series for being “brain dead” and wrote that “the drama generally falls flat, too, at delivering the sort of watercooler — or to put it in more 2025 terms, TikTok-friendly — moments it seems reverse-engineered to create. It’s not for a lack of wild overreactions… These characters are so thin, their storylines so flimsy and their motives so underbaked that there’s no recognizable emotion underlying any of it, and thus no feeling to be provoked by watching it.”
She went on to say that Kardashian, who headlines the series as the group’s most formidable divorce lawyer, is “stiff and affectless without a single authentic note” and “is exactly what the writing, also stiff and affectless without a single authentic note, merits. Her very presence, which succeeds at generating buzz and not much else, feels fitting for a show that seems to want not to be watched so much as mined for viral bits and pieces.”
Others were even harsher in their critiques, with Lucy Mangan of The Guardian writing “I did not know it was still possible to make television this bad,” adding that “the new series from Ryan Murphy … is terrible. Fascinatingly, incomprehensibly, existentially terrible.”
The Daily Telegraph‘s Ed Power condemned Murphy in particular, calling him “the high priest of tacky, tasteless television,” while USA Today‘s Kelly Lawler ripped the show’s writing, which she said is “worse than what Chat GPT was spitting out two years ago.”
Murphy has kept up a steady pace of television content recently after the release of Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, with romance anthology Love Story and coming of age thriller The Shards in development at FX.
The first three episodes of All’s Fair are streaming now on Hulu. New episodes release every Tuesday.
Watch the trailer below.