Kim Kardashian is laughing off the negative reviews of All’s Fair.
“Have you tuned in to the most critically acclaimed show of the year!?!?!? All’s Fair streaming now on @hulu and @disneyplus,” Kardashian, 45, joked via Instagram on Thursday, November 6, dropping screenshots of reviews and tweets about the legal drama in between photos with her castmates and series creator Ryan Murphy.
One screenshot showed a tweet reporting the news that All’s Fair had debuted with a zero percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes. A fan reposted the tweet and wrote, “Immediately pressed play.”
In another tweet, a critic called the acting in All’s Fair — which stars Kardashian, Sarah Paulson, Naomi Watts, Niecy Nash, Teyana Taylor and Glenn Close — “some of the worst” they had “ever seen in my life, along with the most predictable storylines and the most ridiculous styling.” However, the user added, “I’m obsessed, I need 14 seasons.”
A third fan called the show “Scream Queens but for wine moms and millennial gays” in response to a negative review from The Hollywood Reporter, while a fourth user declared that All’s Fair is “actually so good.”
Kardashian also included a screenshot of a quote from a BBC News review that called Murphy, 59, “the high priest of tacky, tasteless television,” adding that “this year, he has outdone himself.”
The Skims founder’s post concluded with a screenshot of a tweet from Info Disney Hulu, reporting that “All’s Fair is currently the most watched title on Disney+ in the world, ranking 1st in 28 countries — including the United States via Hulu. All’s Fair is in the top 10 in a total of 36 territories around the globe.”
It’s clear that TV critics and general audiences do not agree when it comes to All’s Fair. On Rotten Tomatoes, the Tomatometer — a.k.a. the critic score — currently sits at five percent, having made a slight jump from its zero percent debut, while the Popcornmeter — a.k.a. the audience score — is much more positive at 66 percent.
The show, which follows a team of female divorce attorneys who open their own practice in Los Angeles, received multiple zero-star reviews upon the debut of its first three episodes on Tuesday, November 4. The Guardian’s Lucy Mangan wrote that she “did not know it was still possible to make television this bad,” while The Times’ Ben Dowell said it “may be the worst TV drama ever.”
Many critics, including The Hollywood Reporter’s Angie Han, called out Kardashian’s acting.
“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,” Han wrote after referring to Kardashian’s acting and the show’s writing as “stiff and affectless without a single authentic note.”
Amid the negative press, Anthony Hemingway, who directed four episodes of All’s Fair and serves as an executive producer, defended the show.
“You’re not going to please everybody,” Hemingway told The Hollywood Reporter on Wednesday, November 5. “You may have certain criticisms, while there are a million others who love it. I think the show holds a mirror up to each person who watches it. It’s just about: Can you connect to it or relate to it, and see yourself? It may be out of your league, it may not be anything you can connect to, and I think that goes for anything that gets presented on screen.”
Hemingway urged viewers to keep watching the show and see if they change their minds.
“I also think sometimes things may take time,” he continued. “I did The Wire. No one liked the show when it was out. They hated it. They didn’t watch it. Two people watched it every week. But it got to a point where it found a moment. I’m not comparing the show to The Wire — let’s get that straight — but it’s an example of how people can react to something in one moment, and it becomes something totally different in another time.”
New episodes of All’s Fair drop on Hulu every Tuesday until December 9.
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