Hulu has ordered a second season of ‘All’s Fair‘, Ryan Murphy’s glossy legal soap starring Kim Kardashian, proving once again that critical consensus is optional and viewers sometimes just want shiny, car crash TV chaos. Season 1 is heading into its finale in December, and the show currently sits on three percent at Rotten Tomatoes. That is not a typo. Three percent. The kind of review score that usually lives next to malfunctioning microwaves and cursed VHS tapes. Yet ‘All’s Fair’ has become Hulu’s biggest scripted premiere in three years, so clearly the audience has spoken, and the audience said, “Yes, this is exactly the flavour of nonsense I ordered.”
In its first three days, the show racked up 3.2 million global views. It barged into Luminate’s Top 15 in its debut week and then climbed even higher as new episodes landed. Kardashian has been enjoying every second of it, posting “Have you tuned in to the most critically acclaimed show of the year!?!?!?” on Instagram with an energy that can only be described as sublime trolling. Glenn Close (Fatal Attraction) joined in with a ‘Fatal Attraction’ Critic Bunny joke, which feels like a sentence that should not exist, but here we are.
The series follows Kardashian as Allura Grant, who flees a male-dominated law firm to create a women-only divorce powerhouse with Naomi Watts (The Impossible) and Niecy Nash-Betts (Dahmer). Their assistant Milan, played by Teyana Taylor (A Thousand and One), is sleeping with Allura’s NFL husband Chase, portrayed by Matthew Noszka (Tales), which is exactly the kind of plot twist Ryan Murphy probably writes while stirring his morning coffee. Glenn Close returns as their razor-sharp mentor Dina Standish, and Sarah Paulson (Ratched) storms in as rival attorney Carrington Lane, because of course she does.
The supporting cast is stacked, including Judith Light (Transparent), O-T Fagbenle (The Handmaid’s Tale), Armani Barrett (All American: Homecoming), Jamarcus Kilgore (Black Lightning), Joshua Suiter (The Last Ship), Ed O’Neill (Modern Family) and Hari Nef (You). Guest stars include Grace Gummer, Kate Berlant, Elizabeth Berkley Lauren, Jack Davenport, Jessica Simpson, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Brooke Shields. Murphy has assembled a cast that screams prestige but is absolutely here to roll around in high drama.
The project began after Disney’s Dana Walden introduced Murphy to Kris Jenner. Murphy said, “It started because I said I really wanted to meet Kris Jenner and Kim Kardashian”, which might be the most honest description of Hollywood networking ever spoken aloud. Kardashian later said the show proved to her that “there’s really no limitations in life”, which is true because she now stars in a smash hit series with a Rotten Tomatoes score low enough to set off alarms.
Season 2 is officially coming, which means the glitter-soaked legal carnage will continue.
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