All’s Fair starts off with 10 minutes of such bad acting – over dramatic, scenery chewing, unrealistic, bad acting – that a lot of people turned it off right then. My thought watching those first few minutes was if good actors are performing so horribly, there must be a reason. I stayed to watch all 9 episodes of season 1.

All’s Fair turned out to be an uneven mix of ludicrous over acting, ridiculous plots, and the occasional moment of honesty and clarity delivered well. Those good moments were rare in this Ryan Murphy creation. It’s one of those series that is so bad it’s funny. It’s so bad you love to watch it just to hate it.

Allura (Kim Kardashian), Liberty (Naomi Watts), and Emerald (Niecy Nash-Betts) were divorce lawyers. They had their own firm. All of them had been mentored by Dina (Glenn Close), who was an associate in their firm.

Carr (Sarah Paulson) had also been mentored by Dina. She had not been invited to join the firm, so she started her own rival firm. Carr was the villain. Sarah Paulson used a voice the entire time that sounded like she’d gargled with acid. Everything that came out of her mouth was acid – sharp, cruel, and threatening. Sarah Paulson has been a villain for Ryan Murphy before in Ratched, but she went beyond that in this series. She looked like she was having so much fun doing it, too.

Kim Kardashian surprised me by being decent at the job. Niecy Nash-Betts came the closest to portraying a normal human.

All the women were divorce lawyers. An array of well-known actors wandered through the episodes to get their divorces done. The guest list was quite impressive. Since the series has the go ahead for a second season, the guest list of notable names will continue to expand.

Regulars around the women in the series included the paralegal Milan (Teyana Taylor) who was pregnant with Allura’s ex husband’s baby. He was Chase (Matthew Noszka), a football playing sex addict. There was Doug (Ed O’Neill), Dina’s husband of 40 years. There was Reggie (O-T Fagbenie), Liberty’s boyfriend.

Emerald had triplets (Joshua Suiter, Armani Barrett, and Jemarcus Kilgore) she had raised to manhood on her own. We saw quite a lot of them.

These women strutted around looking like they belonged on the runway at Fashion Week. Plunging necklines and boobs were everywhere. Bare legs, fake eyelashes, big red lips and every inappropriate for work costume you could think of. It was high fashion. That sort of thing doesn’t impress me, but I’m sure there were people who tuned in just to see the outfits. The offices, the homes, the airplanes the women had, all reeked of fabulous wealth. Want to get rich in LA? Be a divorce lawyer.

Women directed four of the nine episodes. They were Uta Briesewitz and Crystle Roberson Dorsey.

I’m don’t recommend this. But just in case you want to see something hilariously terrible, it’s streaming on Hulu/Disney+.