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Reality show star. Entrepreneur. Model. Serial wife. Is there anything Kim Kardashian can’t do?

Yes, act! She stars in a new legal drama, Ryan Murphy’s “All’s Fair,” that’s racked up an amazing 0% rating from critics on Rotten Tomatoes and is being called “the worst TV drama ever.”

“All’s Fair” is awful in a way that’s mind-boggling.

Now streaming on Hulu, the show stars Kardashian, Sarah Paulson, Glenn Close, Naomi Watts, Teyana Taylor and Niecy Nash-Betts, most of whom play members of a divorce law firm.


  Kim Kardashian in the new legal drama “All’s Fair.” Disney Kim Kardashian in the new legal drama “All’s Fair.” Disney

  From left: Teyana Taylor, Sarah Paulson, Naomi Watts, Kim Kardashian and Niecy Nash-Betts at an event for the show in NYC on Oct. 28. Disney From left: Teyana Taylor, Sarah Paulson, Naomi Watts, Kim Kardashian and Niecy Nash-Betts at an event for the show in NYC on Oct. 28. Disney

One of the lawyers, Emerald (Nash-Betts), says lines that sound like a tedious self-help book, like, “we stepped away from the patriarchy, and towards something of our own. Now, look at us!”

Kim plays the absurdly named Allura Grant, who gives her colleagues conversational prompts like, “Your favorite case of the last 10 years — go!”


  Kim Kardashian, as Allura Grant, and Naomi Watts, as Grant’s client, in “All’s Fair.” Disney Kim Kardashian, as Allura Grant, and Naomi Watts, as Grant’s client, in “All’s Fair.” Disney

  Niecy Nash, Glenn Close, and Kim Kardashian in “All’s Fair.” Disney Niecy Nash, Glenn Close, and Kim Kardashian in “All’s Fair.” Disney

Every creative choice that went into “All’s Fair” is baffling. The stunt casting of Kardashian might have worked to draw eyeballs to the show’s posters. (She and her mom, Kris Jenner, are also among its exec producers). But that’s as far as it goes.

When Kardashian is on-screen, it feels like a strange joke the audience isn’t in on, watching her give mannequin-blank expressions and deliver lines like “They don’t take divorce law or women seriously!” in a robotic monotone.

Is this supposed to be feminist? Is it camp? Does it think this is a “Scandal”-esque drama? To ponder the show’s aspirations is to put more thought into it than its creators clearly did.


  Kim Kardashian and Niecy Nash in “All’s Fair.” Disney Kim Kardashian and Niecy Nash in “All’s Fair.” Disney

  Sarah Paulson, Kim Kardashian and Naomi Watts in “All’s Fair.” Disney Sarah Paulson, Kim Kardashian and Naomi Watts in “All’s Fair.” Disney

Every scene feels curated to be shared as a two-minute snippet on TikTok.

Nobody behaves like a real human being. When Allura’s boyfriend, Chase (Matthew Noszka), proposes and presents her with a diamond ring, her immediate response is, “Didn’t this belong to Elizabeth Taylor?”

Huh?

Chase replies, “I know how much you love her . . . even though I don’t know who she is.” He then says “come to daddy” as they awkwardly make out.


  Matthew Noszka and Kim Kardashian in “All’s Fair.” Disney Matthew Noszka and Kim Kardashian in “All’s Fair.” Disney

  Matthew Noszka in “All’s Fair.” Disney Matthew Noszka in “All’s Fair.” Disney

  Sarah Paulson and Glenn Close in “All’s Fair.” Disney Sarah Paulson and Glenn Close in “All’s Fair.” Disney

As the kids say: Cringe. I had to pause it and look away for a minute. It’s hard to say if I felt more embarrassed for the actors, the crew members who had to be there or myself as a viewer.

Following their initial nonsensical interaction, the next scene between Allura and Chase is an emotional breakup fight.

We’ve been given no context for their relationship in between these disjointed scenes. There’s nothing to invest in, nothing to hold on to. A nature documentary has more of a narrative than this.


  A shout out to the New York Post, a fake Post cover in “All’s Fair.” Hulu A shout out to the New York Post, a fake Post cover in “All’s Fair.” Hulu

  Sarah Paulson in “All’s Fair.” Disney Sarah Paulson in “All’s Fair.” Disney

The real actors are unable to save this trainwreck.

Paulson and Close are Hollywood heavyweights. Paulson gives a melodramatic performance that feels like it belongs in a high school play, shrieking lines like “Why can’t you choose me, why?!” and “Having me as an enemy is very unwise,” as she smashes knickknacks decorating an office.

Paulson is just one of many actors with bizarre overwrought performances, as if the show is trying to balance out Kardashian’s affectless delivery by having every other cast member weep and shout their lines.

Critics are unanimous. Lucy Mangan of the Guardian wrote, “I did not know it was still possible to make television this bad.”


  The poster for “All’s Fair.” Disney The poster for “All’s Fair.” Disney

USA Today‘s Kelly Lawler called the drama “the worst TV show of the year,” while the Hollywood Reporter’s TV critic Angie Han called the series “brain dead.”

Kardashian recently blamed ChatGPT for failing her bar exam, saying it always gave her wrong answers. Now she has something else to blame AI on — because I can’t believe a human actually wrote these scripts.

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