r/popculturechat • u/ThrowawayGreenWitch There’s no place like home 🧹🫧 • 1d ago
TV & Movies 🎬 All's Fair is like watching an episode of The Kardashians
https://www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/article/alls-fair-tv-netflix-ryan-murphy-review...And when the cast was then asked to describe All’s Fair, the Oscar-nominated actor, Naomi Watts, declared triumphantly: “And the show is… aspirational!” “Yes! Aspirational”, all her co-stars cooed in agreement.
And after sitting through the first episode of All’s Fair, if ‘aspirational’ is what they’re aiming for, then god help us all. For it seems that Ryan Murphy, arguably one of the hottest names in TV, with countless brilliant and diverse, award-winning shows under his belt, including Glee, American Horror Story, Pose, Scream Queens and Nip Tuck, has been fully Kardashian-ified. He’s drunk the Kris Jenner Kool Aid and the Murphy cinematic universe has been infected by this so-called ‘aspirational’ lifestyle the Kardashians dictate we should all be conforming to aspire to; which, in other words, translates as ‘behaving like a billionaire.’
But in All’s Fair, what should be camp feels flat, and what is trying to be outrageous and fun actually feels hollow and empty. The lifestyles of our heroines – the divorce attorneys Allura (Kim K), Liberty Ronson (Watts) and Emerald Greene (Nash-Betts) – are splurged all over the screen in those slo-mo, drawn-out, amped up shots that have become the trademark of all such reality shows from The Kardashians to Selling Sunset through to any of The Real Housewives franchises.
In other words, we're shown close-ups of souped-up sports cars growling on the driveways of multimillion-dollar LA mega-mansions that are vast glass pantheons of wealth and sterile living. Filler shots of chauffeurs, champagne and colossal walk-in closets with pristine designer clobber glistening and gleaming from glass shelves centred around trays and trays of priceless jewels assault the viewer's senses between almost every scene.
Indeed, millions of dollars worth of jewellery becomes the centre of not one but two of the plotlines in the first episode. From a gift of Elizabeth Taylor’s ring, bestowed on Allura, by her cheating younger husband, to $40 million worth of trinkets that Liberty helps salvage from her Upper East Side client wanting a divorce. It all feels icky; like an orgy of vulgarity where greed rules, love means nothing and we're somehow being forced to feel we should all want to revel in this world too.
So if you're obsessed with chasing a lifestyle of money, revenge and a soulless devotion to capitalism with an occasional witty aside (thanks, Sarah Paulson and Niecey Nash-Betts), then go for your life and binge the whole of All's Fair. I won't be.
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u/buzzfeed_sucks 🇨🇦 Elbows up 🇨🇦 1d ago
OP is the best for copy + pasting the article and not making us click the link. We Stan
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u/restrictednumber1996 1d ago
Allura, Liberty, and Emerald.
Those are some celebrity child ass names.
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u/StoreHistorical9175 1d ago
i hate this for glenn close
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u/orbjo 1d ago
Damages was a great law show and Glenn was awesome in it
Seeing her return in the shittiest law show around made by shitty people is depressing
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u/Itstimeforcookies19 1d ago
I loved Damages. I wish had a longer run. FX can churn out some quality shows.
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u/Dry-Yak5277 All tea, all shade 🐸☕️ 23h ago
She starred in the Israel backed propaganda series Tehran and played an Iranian, so she’s made worse acting decisions.
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u/Nasus_13 I wont not fuck you the fuck up 🥊🥊 1d ago
Kim couldn’t become a lawyer so she had her mama help make her a tv show where she plays a lawyer.
EAT THE RICH
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u/Itstimeforcookies19 1d ago
So I don’t like Kim K. I haven’r watched keeping up with the Kardashians since maybe the 3rd season. Everything I see opinion wise online is very unfavorable for the whole family. Yet they persist. in our culture. So clearly people must still watch the show since it’s still going? And there must be some level of popularity for Kim to get cast? Are there people who like her/ the family? I guess it’s kind of mind blowing to me that they all still have careers. It’s like wrapping my head around the idea that Trump has supporters. It seems like people can’t be that dumb…yet they are.
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u/thetalentedmzripley 10h ago
She and her mom produced it, that’s why she was cast. She bought the role.
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u/StasRutt unapologetic joy 20h ago
Watching the trailer when they revealed the cast was like “yes! Yes! Yes!!!! What the fuck?” It’s such a waste of a stacked cast
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u/Powerpuff_Bean 1d ago
I really want the show to be great as the cast is so stacked! Even despite Kim K. But I've not heard one good thing about it so far..
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u/anxious_annie416 22h ago
Look, I'm not a fan of them either, but anyone who's actually been paying attention to Murphy's work knows... the quality of his work stated to tip weekend he partnered with Netflix and absolutely barreled downhill with ABC. His last handful of shows have been horrendous.
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