Glenn Close is defending her and Kim Kardashian’s new series amid a barrage of less-than-pleasant reviews.
“I swear to God, I’ve seen all nine episodes and it’s pretty f**king good,” the iconic actress, 78, told The Guardian in an interview published on Saturday, November 15. “It is what it is: it’s juicy and outrageous at times and touching.”
Close also spoke about her costar Kardashian, 45, who she described as “lovely” and “very smart.”
“[Kardashian is] very, very conscientious with her kids,” the Fatal Attraction star told the outlet. “When we were filming she was going through working towards her law degree, and near the end she would have flashcards. She now has her law degree, and I asked her: ‘Are you going to practice?’ And she said: ‘No, I just want it in my back pocket.’”
According to the 101 Dalmatians star, Kardashian has “surrounded herself with really good people,” which has likely aided her success.
All’s Fair, Hulu’s latest series created by Ryan Murphy and starring Kardashian, Close, Niecy Nash, Naomi Watts and Sarah Paulson, released its first three episodes on November 4. The Guardian’s TV critic Lucy Mangan immediately derided the show as a whole, giving it a rare zero-star review while writing that she“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,” Mangan continued in her review, published on November 4. “The new series from Ryan Murphy, All’s Fair — starring Kim Kardashian, Naomi Watts and Niecy Nash as the founders of an all-female law firm delivering divorce-y justice to incredibly rich but slightly unlucky women under the azure skies of California — is terrible. Fascinatingly, incomprehensibly, existentially terrible.”
The show was also slammed by The Times’ deputy TV editor Ben Dowell, who described it as possibly “the worst TV drama ever.”
He continued: “Because All’s Fair (Disney+) is so bad, it’s not even enjoyably so. It thinks it’s a feminist fable about spirited lawyers getting their own back on cruel rich men but is in fact a tacky and revolting monument to the same greed, vanity and avarice it supposedly targets. All scripted, it feels, by a toddler who couldn’t write ‘bum’ on a wall.”
Dowell added of Kardashian, “Does Kardashian (who plans to take bar exams, we are told) make a convincing lawyer? No, she does not. She is to acting what Genghis Khan is to a peaceful liberal democracy, though of course the dialogue — a tsunami of clunking cliché that drowns this whole enterprise in the first five minutes — doesn’t help her cause.”
All’s Fair is about a team of female divorce attorneys who have their own practice in Los Angeles.
“Fierce, brilliant, and emotionally complicated, they navigate high-stakes breakups, scandalous secrets, and shifting allegiances — both in the courtroom and within their own ranks. In a world where money talks and love is a battleground, these women don’t just play the game — they change it,” the synopsis reads.
While the reviews have been disappointing, Kardashian has been brushing off the hate.
“Kim is so happy with how much the fans love the show and it’s still No. 1 on Hulu [for the] third day,” a source close to the entrepreneur exclusively told Us Weekly on November 7 of how the reality TV star is handling the bad press. “She has joked that this is actually getting more people to watch it. She’s incredibly driven and knows one project doesn’t define her.”
