Has the girlboss archetype ever been more embarrassing? In Ryan Murphy’s new legal drama All’s Fair, which has debuted with a rare zero percent critics’ score on Rotten Tomatoes, it appears we have reached new heights of career-woman cringe.
Starring an expressionless Kim Kardashian alongside Naomi Watts and Niecy Nash as the founders of an all-female divorce firm representing billionaires’ wives, the All’s Fair heroines dish out casual one-liners like “We’re stepping away from the patriarchy,” “Business is how I unwind” and “Let’s put the team in teamwork.” They march down hallways and jump on private jets like it’s part of the daily grind. And it appears that Kardashian’s character, the ball-breaking lawyer Allura, has only one job: to threaten wealthy men from across the boardroom table. Indeed, this series is supposedly set in the present day, but these girlbosses speak as if the year is still 2014, and they are corporate robots pre-programmed to name-drop luxury brands in each sentence (“Let’s get those Goyard travel cases and start stuffing!”).
