The Worst Show of 2025 Officially Returns for Season 2 Tomorrow

Every year brings new shows that enter the conversation for different reasons. Last year had hits like The Pitt, Adolescence, Overcompensating, and more. Critics praised these shows for their realism and entertainment value, and some, like The Pitt, have become cultural phenomena. Then there are other shows; while not particularly exceptional, they also have their place. The other category is those that are panned almost universally, and in 2025, Hulu released one.

Part of what made it so disappointing was that a seasoned Hollywood writer-director was involved, with an all-star cast. Critics called it “too awful to love, too boring to war over,” giving the first season a mere 6% on Rotten Tomatoes. But despite the criticism, All’s Fair was a hit with fans, managing a 65% audience score and peaking at number one on Hulu and Disney+ during its run. Now, Kim Kardashian (Allura), Glenn Close (Dina), Niecy Nash-Betts (Emerald), Naomi Watts (Liberty), Teyana Taylor (Milan), and Sarah Paulson (Carrington) are back for a second season of the Ryan Murphy show, which premieres tomorrow.

The firm is ready to take on more divorces, and if the has-been couples are messy, the lawyers are messier. In the three-episode premiere, Allura throws an extravagant ball, but an unwanted crasher threatens to spark ire. Later, they accompany Dina to scatter her late husband’s ashes and encounter some trouble. Allura also has a hot new bodyguard who might not be who he seems. Thanksgiving this year will have to wait as the ladies handle a case that keeps them at the firm, but drama unfolds as secrets come to light. All’s Fair Season 2 premieres on Hulu on Wednesday, November 04.

Four love stories, four completely different ideas of what it means to
be somebody’s person. This is the one that matches how you actually fall, and what it would ask of
you.

You do not fall for strangers. You fall for the person you have
already been talking to for years, which is the slowest and by some distance the most
durable way anybody has found to do this.

• When Harry Met Sally made the case that the best romance is an argument you enjoy,
  conducted over a decade, by two people refusing to admit what is happening.
• You want to be known rather than swept away. Somebody who remembers your worst story is
  doing better work than anybody arriving with flowers.
• The film is unusually honest about timing. These two are wrong for each other repeatedly
  until suddenly they are not, and neither of them engineered it.
• You would still be talking about everything at eighty. That is the entire promise.

You want a partner, not an audience. Somebody who wants their own
life as badly as you want yours, and who would never ask you to be smaller to make the
relationship easier.

• This is the rare romance where both people have a real career and the film takes both of
  them equally seriously.
• You would rather be pushed than protected. The right person for you is also a bit of a
  rival, and that never entirely goes away.
• It understands the actual problem in ambitious relationships. Not whether you love each
  other, but whose turn it is this year.
• You would still be competing at forty. That is how you would know it was working.

The intensity was never the problem. The secrecy is. You are
drawn to a love that lives entirely in private, and to the particular ache of wanting
somebody you are not supposed to want.

• Heated Rivalry runs on the oldest engine in romance: two people on opposite sides,
  meeting in secret, getting far more attached than either of them planned.
• You keep your private life genuinely private, and something in you finds hidden things
  more real than public ones.
• The tension is not only between the two of them. It is between what they have and what
  it would cost either one to say it out loud.
• Years of this, and the whole story is really about whether either of them will finally
  stop hiding.

You do not do this cautiously. When it happens for you it is
immediate and total and it rearranges everything, and you would not accept a smaller version
of it.

• Titanic gave us the biggest romance in film history and then made it last about five
  days, which is precisely the point of it.
• You measure love by intensity rather than duration. A few days of the real thing beats
  decades of something merely comfortable.
• The film is not only about the romance. It is about a woman who went on to live an
  enormous life afterwards because of it.
• You would still be telling this story at a hundred years old, and telling it exactly the
  same way.

Is ‘All’s Fair’ Worth Watching?

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The show’s entertainment value is polarizing and largely depends on an individual’s taste. Collider’s Taylor Gates said the show is “awful” and “should land Ryan Murphy in TV jail,” while Sophie Gilbert called it “Instagram Reels at episode length” while reviewing for The Atlantic. Angie Han of The Hollywood Reporter singled out Kardashian’s performance as “stiff and affectless without a single authentic note,” noting that she was mirroring the writing. So don’t expect Suits or The Good Wife. However, if you love flashy, fashion-forward shows with campy acting, then All’s Fair might be for you. Many viewers like it because it doesn’t take itself too seriously, and if Paulson wants to jump on a table and scream her lungs out, it will let her.

Watch the first three episodes of All’s Fair Season 2 on Hulu in the US and Disney+ internationally. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.

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