‘All’s Fair’: Kim Kardashian’s new legal drama draws brutal reviews despite starry cast of Naomi Watts, Niecy Nash, Sarah Paulson, and Glenn Close

The glossy new courtroom-meets-divorce saga All’s Fair has finally premiered—and the reaction has been a spectacle of its own. Headlined by Kim Kardashian as L.A. powerhouse attorney Allura Grant, the nine-episode series arrived on a major U.S. streaming platform on Nov. 4, 2025, with a splashy three-episode drop. Early viewership has been huge, but the critics’ verdict has been punishing, turning the show into fall TV’s most argued-over debut.

What ‘All’s Fair’ is about

All’s Fair follows three elite divorce lawyers who build a boutique firm that weaponizes PR savvy as much as precedent. Cases bounce from Hollywood mansions to mediation rooms where image is currency, secrets metastasize, and every settlement is a proxy war. The hook isn’t just who wins; it’s who controls the narrative when love, money, and revenge collide.

Episode count & schedule

• Season 1: 9 episodes

• Premiere: First 3 episodes released Nov. 4

• Rollout: Weekly single-episode drops through late December

• Runtime: ~45–55 minutes per episode
  (Streaming calendars can shift week to week.)

‘All’s Fair’ cast: prestige names in a high-gloss sandbox

• Kim Kardashian as Allura Grant, a celebrity attorney who treats client reputations like live grenades.

• Naomi Watts as Liberty Ronson, composed until she isn’t; a strategist with a private fault line.

• Niecy Nash-Betts as Emerald Greene, the firm’s soul and resident truth detector.

• Sarah Paulson as Carrington Lane, a rival litigator whose smile is a closing argument.

• Glenn Close as Dina Standish, an old-guard rainmaker with history—and leverage.

• Additional players rotate through as spouses, sharks, and scandal magnets in case-of-the-week arcs that feed a larger season plot.

All’s Fair reviews: the temperature right now

The critics’ temperature is frigid. On a major review-aggregation site, the show opened at 0% and has only crept into the single digits since—an exceptionally rare outcome for a star-driven drama. Several heavyweight critics in the U.S. and U.K. delivered zero-star or one-star write-ups, calling out tin-eared dialogue, cardboard motivations, and a tonal wobble between camp and earnestness. A prominent London newspaper even labeled it “existentially terrible.”

That said, there’s a second conversation happening among viewers: hate-watch vs. camp watch. Fashion, production design, and the sheer audacity of the set-pieces have sparked “so-bad-it’s-good” chatter. One consistent bright spot in mixed app-store and social comments: Niecy Nash-Betts, often singled out for comic snap and grounded warmth.

Why the backlash?

• Performance expectations vs. reality: Kardashian’s lead turn—cool, affectless, PR-savvy—plays for some as intentional ice and for others as nonperformance.

• Tone management: The series wants to be satire, soap, and legal thriller at once; without razor-sharp writing, that triangulation can feel like whiplash.

• Case logic: A few early cases resolve via ethics-optional shortcuts or viral-video miracles, which strains credibility even by prestige-soap standards.

Is it still worth watching?

If you’re here for couture lawyering, maximalist production design, and weekly celebrity-adjacent blowups, All’s Fair can be a fizzy binge. If you need airtight legal plotting or emotional realism, the first trio of episodes may test your patience. A pragmatic approach: sample Episode 1 for the world-build, then Episode 3—the season’s first major pivot—to see whether the camp-satire register hits your frequency.

“All is fair” vs. “All’s Fair”: the title’s double meaning

Searches for “all is fair” and “all’s fair” are spiking, and the show leans into both readings. The old proverb (“all is fair in love and war”) becomes literal strategy: reputations are weaponized, and the line between advocacy and annihilation blurs. The contraction All’s Fair also winks at the firm’s pitch—that outcomes feel “fair” when your side wins the PR war.

Quick answers to trending questions

All’s Fair cast?
Kim Kardashian, Naomi Watts, Niecy Nash-Betts, Sarah Paulson, Glenn Close—plus a carousel of notable guest stars tied to headline-friendly divorces.

All’s Fair on Hulu?
The series streams exclusively on a major U.S. platform associated with that brand; international access appears inside the same ecosystem. (App availability can vary by region.)

All’s Fair reviews—good or bad?
Mostly bad from professional critics so far, with a single-digit score on a leading aggregator. Viewer scores are more split, with a camp-friendly contingent.

How many episodes?
Nine this season, with new episodes dropping weekly through December.

Is it connected to Succession?
No. The comparison pops up because of the corporate-elite setting and Sarah Snook’s fame from that series, but the shows are unrelated in story and tone.

All’s Fair is the fall’s defining love-it/hate-it conversation piece: a swaggering legal soap whose A-list ensemble and headline-proof concept collide with some of the harshest notices of the year. Whether you stay for the drama or the drip, the show has already done the one thing every launch craves—become impossible to ignore.