I'll be brief: The Kim Kardashian rich divorce lawyer show is just as bad as it was last year. Maybe worse. But maybe you like that.
After the first season of Hulu's "All's Fair" debuted in 2025, there was no end to the criticism of the quality of the show, which stars Kardashian, Glenn Close, Sarah Paulson, Naomi Watts, Niecy Nash and Teyana Taylor as high-powered divorce lawyers with more money than personalities. The Ryan Murphy-produced catastrophe was called "fascinatingly dull," "an atrocity," "existentially terrible,"and "absolute garbage" (that last one was me).
But in Season 2 (streaming Wednesdays) of the bacchanalia of banality and wealth fantasy community-theater-acting, Murphy and co. have done no soul searching. There have been no remedial
courses in creating actually watchable television. The dialogue was not written by anyone who has ever heard human speech this time. It is utterly, unapologetically the same. It is a middle finger to its haters. It laughs at the pain of its critics. It is so, so bad.
But what would you expect? In spite of the nearly negative Rotten Tomatoes score, "Fair" has become a huge hit for Hulu and further evidence of our societal decline. It is not a TV show so much as a poorly scripted sponsored TikTok. What's being sold is Murphy, Kardashian, luxury brands and the idea that we deserve less than nothing from the art and entertainment we consume.
None of this is new. If you watched the first season and found a deranged humor in terribleness of it all, you will find that again. Here is a non-exhaustive list of the worst lines in just the premiere episode: "Send in the clown." "That ragdoll in arch support shoes." "Little Miss Shake-and-Go Wig wants to rough me up a little?" "All this astrology, it brings out extremes." "You re-traumatized Adele!"
What's it about? Nominally some legal cases involving divorce with scintillating legal mysteries as disappearing ink and bestiality allegations. Allura (Kardashian), with her deeply dead eyes, is still at war with rival attorney Carrington (Paulson, fully committed to whatever personal bit she is doing here). Liberty (Watts) comes out as a lesbian. Emerald (Nash) teaches her sons' girlfriends how to be rich. Dina (Close) gets to flirt. Milan (Taylor) passes the bar. Everyone has lunch at elaborate marble tables with crystal glassware and talks about how hard it is to be a woman and a lawyer and rich and hot.
At this point, one has to wonder if "Fair" has somehow crossed over the line to becoming so hysterically and manically terrible that somehow it's a piece of high art camp? That these Emmy-winning and Oscar-nominated actresses are dressing up in ugly designer clothes and having cat fights in fountains in order to make a greater statement about the obsession of society with wealth, beauty, corporate sponsored "feminism," and the internalized misogyny that sets woman against woman? Maybe we're all missing the serious point beneath the press-on nails?
No. We're not missing anything. This is from the man who decided 2026 was the right time to reboot "Glee."There is no deeper meaning. This is as surface as it gets.
All's fair in love, war and TV ratings. We keep watching, and they'll keep making this garbage. Tune in at your own risk.
This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: The worst show on TV is back. How bad is Season 2 of 'All's Fair'?
