On the one hand, Trump and the Maga movement have been routed in the midterms. On the other, the second season of All’s Fair is out. Truly, the lord giveth and the lord taketh away.
For those of you who have blanked the first season from your mind, All’s Fair is the existentially terrible offering from Ryan Murphy’s increasingly manure-filled stable, starring Kim Kardashian, Naomi Watts, Niecy Nash-Betts and, absolutely unaccountably, Glenn Close as the super-duper lawyers of an all-female California divorce firm. Sarah Paulson plays their bananas enemy lawyer, Carrington Lane. And if you think that is some rum work pulled at the font, the other characters labour under the monikers Allura, Emerald and Liberty.
Close gets off lightly with Dina, which I hope suggests she has at least some clout left in this strange business we call show. I would catch you up on what happened in the first season, but the second season doesn’t seem to care much, so why waste time when there’s so much nonsense to get through? Carrington and Dina have a head to head in which the former (dressed to indicate her evilness in a sort of pleather gabardine, unless mine eye deceives) recaps as much as is needed.
There is a lot happening and yet nothing at all. Since the end of her marriage to Chase (Matthew Noszka), Allura has moved home. Vengeance is a savage game.” This is the first sign that someone has been trying to improve things since season one.
If you squint and hope, this could be a metatextual pop reference spoken by the star of perhaps the most famous revenge movie in film history – and the kind of camp, self-aware flourish for which Murphy was once famed. When Allura later makes a reference to failing to pass the California bar exam on her first attempt, as happened to Kardashian last year, the suspicion that a human has been introduced into the pool of script-typing monkeys hardens almost into delirious certainty. Allura’s inaugural plotline is … throwing a ball.
A scorpion ball, to be precise, à la Grace Kelly’s famed 40th birthday celebration in which Elizabeth Taylor stole the show by turning up in a velvet and silk cape by Tiziani Roma, embroidered with diamante scorpions. Allura has bought the cape at auction and hired Adele and Bruno Mars to play at the ball; Liberty says she has heard that he is well-hung, everybody laughs and I think I am losing my mind. Liberty and Emerald have this week’s legal case to solve.
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