Obiter doesn’t subscribe to Disney + so we sadly haven’t been able to watch All’s Fair, the glossy new US legal drama from Glee creator Ryan Murphy, starring reality TV star Kim Kardashian as one of the founders of an all-female law firm that specialises in divorce work – but we’ve certainly been enjoying the reviews.
The Guardian's TV critic Lucy Mangan gave it zero stars – a rating so uncommon it prompted the publication to revisit the 17 other occasions where it awarded zilch.
Mangan did not hold back: ‘I did not know it was still possible to make television this bad. I assumed that there was some sort of baseline, some inescapable bedrock knowledge of how to do it that now prevents any entry into the art form from falling below a certain standard. But I was wrong.’
The Telegraph’s Ed Power was feeling slightly more generous, awarding the show one star, but lambasted the acting. ‘Somehow [Ryan] Murphy and his co-creators Jon Robin Baitz and Joe Baken make Oscar-nominated talents such as Naomi Watts and Glenn Close look like they would be doing well to bag a recurring role on Emmerdale.’
Perhaps there were more favourable reviews across the pond?
‘You might as well be looking at random GIFs from some show you’ve never seen before. Which, given how dull All’s Fair turns out to be despite how hard it tries to make itself sexy and splashy, might actually be the ideal way to experience it,’ wrote The Hollywood Reporter’s Angie Han.
We’ve heard from the TV critics. What do family lawyers think? Email your verdict to monidipa.fouzder@lawsociety.org.uk
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