The newspaper Caretaker has only posted 15 zero-star reviews of a film or television series over its history. The Ryan Murphy series on Disney+, The whole lawhe is the latest to have achieved this infamous honor, and this was proudly highlighted by the British newspaper in one of its publications on Instagram. But this series with Kim Kardashian really deserves the nickname “worst drama series in history”. The times or the “crime against television” that he wrote The telegraph? Yes and no.
The first thing is to make one thing clear: the series is bad. It’s not even so bad that it becomes good. There’s no doubt about that after watching the first three episodes (of the 10 that make up this season) of this legal drama (or is it a comedy?) about a women’s law firm set up to help wealthier women with their expensive divorces. It has absurd dialogue, actresses with totally shock tones, uninteresting lawsuits (in these episodes they don’t even get to appear before a judge), boring motivations, and an opulence of rich women with zero self-criticism that causes shame in others. 6% positive reviews from the aggregator Rotten tomatoes That’s right. But it’s not even the worst television series. It’s not even the worst series from Ryan Murphy, who long ago stopped having a lot of projects gourmet be pure fast food.
The whole law It is the series most similar to that of all those that the screenwriter has made in recent years. Nip/Tuck with which it was placed on the map. To the point that in the third episode Jessica Simpson shines as a guest dealing with a case of bad cosmetic surgery practices. It also has its own elements 911the detective series franchise of standalone episodes where they mix the most viral romantic plots with cases ranging from a child trapped in pipes to a meteor shower or a tsunami. Like her, this new series doesn’t seem to take itself too seriously. Unlike other Murphy creations, such as hollywood (about the pioneers of the mecca of cinema) or the Feud by Capote (written by Jon Robin Baitz himself), this does not claim to save the world of the series, it is self-aware and always borders on parody as in joy, The Politician OR Popular. This already gives you points against them.
The team always keeps in mind that it is a series made so that its protagonists wear clothes, wigs and hats casually, where Kardashian can be at home in a bison coat to receive her colleague Niecy Nash who arrives with a cleavage. And where a trifle like selling some jewelry can fill the plots for two episodes. Explaining that they are the best lawyers is the last thing the series cares about. This is taken for granted. And period.
Because this is not a serious legal drama The good wifebut Disney asked for it in response to the success of Clothes on Netflix. They wanted a series of self-contained episodes reminiscent of classic free-to-air television. That is, they didn’t require much thought on the part of the viewer and had good hot sauces that Ryan Murphy likes, but in the end it all ended well. That is, like the countless Chicago (DC Fire, etc.), NCIS, Matlock OR criminal minds that flood television and triumph on the platforms, and of which no one seems to criticize so fiercely. That’s why Jon Robin Baitz, creator of classic series such as five brothers OR Doctor Odysseyanother one produced by Ryan Murphy (he has seven series released in 2025) and no better than this one.
There are a lot of bad series on television. They were also there in the golden age. Spanish is not good Berlinand much less The atomic shelter. The witcher It bores the most colorful and has nothing redeemable. Superheroes have perpetrated similar horrors Arrow, Iron Fist AND The inhumans. You He bordered on shaming others in his later seasons, and same The idol. Not to mention that unintentional comedy called And just like thatanother song about hard living among opulence with no understanding of the world he lives in. And that’s only if we’re talking about the ones that don’t get deleted without anyone finding out.
Why then this furious attack? Perhaps it is easier (and even more worthy) to get involved in a series starring Kim Kardashian, after having been seen in an unfortunate season of American horror story. The reality is that she’s not okay in the series, and viewers could have lived without her leap into acting, but in reality neither are her companions: nor is Sarah Paulson’s over-the-top rebellious Disney villain before becoming another serial killer in Monster; neither the eternal exaggeration of Niecy Nash nor the vital negligence of Glenn Close. The only one who really enjoys it is Naomi Watts. Each actress lives in different series, in opposite registers.
Or maybe it’s that we live in a world of social networks and exaggerated headlines where every premiere can only be the best ever or the worst, a statement that will never be true. And this series, bad, at least achieves, unlike other apparently good ones, what it wants to be. Be closer to bad taste and field of what Perry Mason. Maybe it could have been more fun, but no one here wanted to do it The Sopranos.
