As Kim Kardashian's All's Fair BOMBS with 0% Rotten Tomatoes score, the other series that flopped with the lowest score imaginable for their small screen debuts
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Kim Kardashian might be a big name on reality TV, but her latest attempt at acting has been met with almost universal hatred.
The reality star-turned-lawyer, 40, stars in Hulu's new legal drama All's Fair alongside other big names, including Glenn Close and American Horror Story's Sarah Paulson.
But despite an impressive cast and a staggering budget of $69.7 million, the show has bombed critically and received a rare 0% score on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes.
The Times' Ben Dowell declared in his zero-star review: 'This may be the worst TV drama ever'.
Meanwhile, USA Today's Kelly Lawler decided the drama was at the very least 'the worst TV show of the year.'
But what other shows have achieved the feat? It turns out the hall of shame is more full that you might expect, but the five worst scoring series are listed below.
Kim Kardashian might be a big name on small screen reality TV , but her first major attempt at acting in Hulu's All's Fair has been met with almost universal hatred
The reality star turned lawyer, 40, stars in Hulu's new legal drama alongside other big names including Glenn Close and American Horror Story's Sarah Paulson
5. The Kennedys: After Camelot
The fifth lowest-rated show on Rotten Tomatoes is The Kennedys: After Camelot, which is a fictionalised dramatisation of Jackie Kennedy's life after JFK's assassination.
Released in 2017, one brutal Rotten Tomatoes reviewer said: 'Turns out the best way to experience this absurd, horribly written, curiously acted soap opera is to keep your humour about you, to jeer-watch as the characters become tabloid parodies.'
The two-part show was described as a 'four-hour mess' and slammed, in particular, for its lack of 'dramatic structure' and emotional value.
The fifth lowest-rated show on Rotten Tomatoes is The Kennedys: After Camelot, which is a fictionalised dramatisation of Jackie Kennedy's life after JFK's assassination
Released in 2017, one brutal Rotten Tomatoes reviewer said: 'Turns out the best way to experience this absurd, horribly written, curiously acted soap opera is to keep your humour about you, to jeer-watch as the characters become tabloid parodies'
4. Saint George
The fourth lowest-rated show on Rotten Tomatoes is Saint George, a 2014 sitcom about a Mexican-American entrepreneur.
His 'hectic' life is pitched as being the result of his attempts to balance being a dad to his son, his 'demanding' ex-wife, and his 'overbearing' mother-in-law.
One reviewer slammed: 'Like many a sitcom male, [George Lopez] may have outsized expectations. Based on the penis and fat-joke-ridden pilot (titled “Won’t Get Fooled Again”), I'm keeping mine pretty low.'
Another noted: 'The jokes are mostly about sex and when they're not, there is a bit of meanness to them that gets really old after a bit.'
The fourth lowest-rated show on Rotten Tomatoes is Saint George, a 2014 sitcom about a Mexican-American entrepreneur
His 'hectic' life is pitched as being the result of his attempts to balance being a dad to his son, his 'demanding' ex-wife, and his 'overbearing' mother-in-law
3. Charlie's Angels
Despite having Drew Barrymore and Cameron Diaz amongst its acting talent, the 2011 Charlie's Angels series was not well received.
It was compared to 'pre-chewed food' and reportedly had 'no thrills, no sexiness, no laughs' as it followed the escapades of the angels, who are recruited to be private investigators by a mysterious Charlie Townsend.
One review read: 'It wasn't camp enough to be funny, the action barely kicked shin let alone ass and the story (drugs in Miami, yawn) was colder than leftover Christmas turkey.'
That didn't stop movie bosses rebooting the franchise in 2019 though, with Kristen Stewart, Naomi Scott and Ella Balinkska in leading roles, alongside Patrick Stewart and Noah Centineo.
Despite having Drew Barrymore and Cameron Diaz amongst its acting talent, the 2011 Charlie's Angels series was not well received and only lasted for one season
It was compared to 'pre-chewed food' and reportedly had 'no thrills, no sexiness, no laughs' as it followed the escapades of the angels, who are recruited to be private investigators by a mysterious Charlie Townsend
2. Dads
The second-lowest-rated show on Rotten Tomatoes is the 2013 sitcom Dads, which is centred around two video game developers whose lives are turned upside down when their dads move in with them.
Despite coming from the creators of the hugely successful Family Guy and Ted, Dads failed to live up to the success of either franchise.
One particularly brutal review read: 'Dads looks like something you'd pick out of an infected cyst.'
Another added: 'Dads, a show about two annoying grown men's extremely fraught and contentious relationships with their two unbearable fathers, is sourer than fermented lemonade, and that’s before it turns acrid with the taste of casual racism.'
The second lowest rated show on Rotten Tomatoes is the 2013 sitcom Dads, which is centred around two video game developers whose lives are turned upside down when their dads move in with them
One particularly brutal review read: 'Dads looks like something you’d pick out of an infected cyst'
1. Hunters
However, the show which is deemed the WORST EVER by Rotten Tomatoes reviewers is Hunters.
The show centres around an FBI agent who goes on the hunt for his missing wife, only to unintentionally discover a secret government organisation.
One reviewer said: 'Hunters borrows many familiar beats from other TV shows and films. Too bad it doesn't weave those samples into a wholly original or inspiring new tune.'
Another claimed that it is a joyless copycat of other 'more interesting shows', writing: 'Hunters is a dour sci-fi procedural whose every story beat is joylessly copied from more interesting shows, and whose pretensions toward political allegory are too simplistic to be truly offensive.'
Note - this isn't to be confused with Prime Video's critically acclaimed Hunters from 2020, which conversely scored rave reviews.
However, the show which is deemed the WORST EVER by Rotten Tomatoes reviewers is Hunters, which centres around an FBI agent who goes on the hunt for his missing wife, only to unintentionally discover a secret government organisation
One reviewer said: 'Hunters borrows many familiar beats from other TV shows and films. Too bad it doesn't weave those samples into a wholly original or inspiring new tune'
It remains to be seen whether All's Fair will beat any of Rotten Tomatoes' top five worst shows when its remaining episodes are released - or if it manages to turn around its awful critical reception.
Prior to receiving scathing reviews, Kim Kardashian's new series, which dropped its first three episodes on Disney+ and Hulu this week, has been heavily promoted for months.
But in the end no amount of carefully orchestrated TV crossovers and glossy promo could save the show from the aforementioned critics' reviews.
Angie Han of The Hollywood Reporter writes that 'Kardashian's performance, stiff and affectless without a single authentic note, is exactly what the writing, also stiff and affectless without a single authentic note, merits.'
Lucy Mangan for The Guardian opened her review with the musing 'I did not know it was still possible to make television this bad... But I was wrong. All's Fair is terrible. Fascinatingly, incomprehensibly, existentially terrible.'
Whilst she called Kim 'inoffensively useless,' Mangan set her sights on two time Oscar nominee Naomi Watts, who she says 'preens and pouts and poses in search of a character, and reminds you of nothing so much as Ally McBeal at her very worst, delivering her lines so archly that you can almost hear her joints cracking.'
It remains to be seen whether All's Fair will beat any of Rotten Tomatoes's top five worst shows when its remaining episodes are released - or if it manages to turn around its awful critical reception
Prior to receiving scathing reviews, Kim Kardashian's new series, which dropped its first three episodes on Disney+ and Hulu this week, has been heavily promoted for months
Ed Power of The Telegraph is one of the few reviewers to bestow one star on the drama, but his write-up isn't any less scathing, and he blames the show's writer Ryan Murphy.
'Ryan Murphy is the high priest of tacky, tasteless television, and this year he has outdone himself with a show of mind-bending horror sure to trigger nightmares in the unsuspecting viewer.'
The takedown has gone global with Anisha Rao of India Today offering a half star review and the declaration: 'This isn't law and order – it's just luxury, loud and lost in translation. All's Fair is a style statement disguised as storytelling, a glossy courtroom where contour wins over content.'
Viewer reaction wasn't any less scathing. After watching the pilot, many viewers were left baffled by Kim's prominent role in a series starring award-winning actresses.
Her performance was called 'stiff' and 'monotone' with another fan writing on X, 'Kim Kardashian cannot act and she need to stop touching her face.'
'Lmao Kim is so monotone I can't,' another wrote.
'Trying to watch All's Fair but I cant with Kim Kardashian,' another added.
All's Fair is available to stream on Hulu now.
