Last summer, Kim Kardashian posted an Instagram Story that showed a picture of Snoopy with the words “I ain’t passed the bar, but I know a lil’ bit” above him—the Jay-Z lyrics a nod to the fact that, despite training to become a lawyer since 2018, she still has yet to qualify. Now, though, she’s done one better: She’s about to play one.
On December 4, 2023, Deadline broke the news that the certified multi-hyphenate is getting her own scripted series, titled All’s Fair, from Hollywood power player Ryan Murphy. Described as “a high-end, glossy, and sexy adult procedural,” it’ll see Kim embody “Los Angeles’s most successful divorce lawyer and the owner of an all-female law firm.” Penned by Joe Baken and Jon Robin Baitz, the showrunner of the splashy Feud: Capote vs. The Swans, the new legal drama was reportedly pitched to Kim and Kris Jenner by Murphy and the writers, with the reality stars committing straight off the bat and both signing on as executive producers, too.
The project was then sold to Hulu, and the publication added that preliminary casting had already begun, with the team “exploring ideas for three other actresses to play Kardashian’s glamorous and accomplished law partners, and an A-list actor to play her onscreen love interest”. On July 8, 2024, it was revealed that none other than eight-time Oscar nominee Glenn Close, who previously won two Emmys and a Golden Globe for her work on the legal hit Damages, would be playing one of those formidable co-workers—the head of the firm, naturally—and executive-producing, too. (It was also announced that Halle Berry would be joining the ensemble too, but the Oscar winner departed the project just a week later, reportedly due to a scheduling conflict.)
Then, on August 6, it emerged that Sarah Paulson, Naomi Watts, Niecy Nash, and Teyana Taylor would all be coming on board as well. It makes sense, certainly, given that Paulson, Watts, and Nash are all already part of the extended Ryan Murphy televisual universe (with their parts in the likes of The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story, Ratched, Impeachment: American Crime Story, The Watcher, Feud: Capote vs. The Swans, Scream Queens, and Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story), and that Taylor has been in high demand since her astonishing work in A Thousand and One. (As for the remaining roles? Let the fantasy casting commence!) There’s also a tentative production start date: late 2024, with the expectation that the series will drop in early 2025.
This isn’t, of course, Kim’s first collaboration with Murphy. She recently gave a breakthrough performance as a cutthroat publicist in American Horror Story: Delicate, a turn which silenced many of her detractors and prompted a flood of new acting offers. Among them? Her first starring role in a movie: the Netflix comedy The Fifth Wheel, in which she’ll take the part of an outsider in a group of four other female friends. If there was any doubt that Kim could make a success of this next phase of her career, well, there certainly isn’t anymore.
