Old School. Biblically Independent.
By Dustin Rowles | TV | November 4, 2025
“Little Allura-dorable can’t have a wittle baby in that cobweb-dusted womb of hers. Boo hoo! You don’t give us what we want, and those eggs will never see the inside of Allura’s hoo-ha because I’ll personally slather them in A-1 steak sauce and eat them with a side of fries.”
That’s a sample line from the Ryan Murphy-produced Hulu series All’s Fair, delivered by Sarah Paulson to Glenn Close. And look: this show should be a slam dunk. Kim Kardashian aside, it stars Paulson, Close, Naomi Watts, Niecy Nash, and Teyana Taylor in a legal drama about a female-led law firm getting revenge on terrible men through divorce settlements.
It may be the worst streaming show of 2025.
I don’t say that lightly. I’ve seen every Harlan Coben series. I’ve seen Ransom Canyon. I watched every episode of And Just Like That…. They were all better than All’s Fair.
I’m not sure what exactly creators Jon Robin Baitz and Joe Baken (Doctor Odyssey) are going for, but Elizabeth Berkley’s appearance in the second episode suggests a campy Eszterhas-meets-First Wives Club vibe. Unfortunately, All’s Fair commits the cardinal sin of campy melodrama: it’s spectacularly boring. Once you get past the novelty of a stacked cast acting intentionally bad, you’re left with nothing but cringe-inducing dialogue and the occasional decent profane insult.
And you’d think Glenn Close telling Sarah Paulson that her mother should have swallowed would be enough deliciousness to fuel half a season. The problem is, these actresses clearly want to chew scenery, but there’s nothing to chew on, just one tired cliché after another delivered with visible disinterest. “What we have here is knowledge,” Kim Kardashian’s character says at one point. “And knowledge is the key in the lock. All we have to do is turn it the right way.”
“Well, I have done my part, girlfriend,” Niecy Nash’s character responds. “Now you do yours. Let’s put the ****ing team in teamwork.”
It’s as if the Family Matters writers were handed the scripts and told to sprinkle in a few profanities.
Worse still, the show feels modeled after Suits: LA. There’s zero tension. Clients present their cases to the lawyers (Watts, Kardashian, and investigator Nash), the team vows to ruin their clients’ husbands, and then they do — usually through blackmail. There’s never any risk or suspense, so the victories ring hollow no matter how many zeroes the settlements boast.
Of course, each woman has her own relationship drama. Kardashian’s character, Allura (yes, really), is divorcing her sex-addicted NFL husband, who’s impregnated her receptionist, Milan (Teyana Taylor). Naturally, Milan is about to graduate law school because that’s the way legal dramas work in the Kardashian reality. Allura ends up comforting Milan over the fact that her husband is cheating on both of them. She hires her mentor, Dinah (Glenn Close), to represent her against her husband’s attorney, Carrington Lane, the show’s villain, played by Paulson, the only remotely engaging character in the show. Dinah’s husband (Ed O’Neill) is dying of cancer, and Watts’s character, Liberty Ronson (what is it with these names?), is newly engaged.
But it’s all just painfully hard to watch. It’s beneath everyone involved, even Kardashian, who mostly seems bored. She’s not alone. The absurdity occasionally earns a guffaw, but it’s not enough to offset the tedium. I’m not even sure it qualifies as a decent hate-watch because even its ridiculousness feels uninspired. I’d say don’t watch, but honestly, it has to be seen to be believed.
