To be fair, Kim Kardashian is not an actress-- she is basically a reality internet star who got famous when her sex tape with Ray J was leaked on the internet. She filed a lawsuit against a distributor for selling copies of the tape, despite many in the industry telling her that the suit had no merit. But guess what? She dropped the lawsuit three months later (just as sales were peaking) in exchange for a financial settlement (i.e., a cut of the profits, perhaps?). A mere four months later, her reality show debuted on cable TV. Numerous media outlets later criticized her and her family for using the sex tape's release as a publicity stunt to promote their forthcoming reality show.
Kardashian tried to raise her profile as an activist in 2017 during a visit to Uganda. She was widely criticized for lending her celebrity to legitimize an increasingly authoritarian government, which had recently begun cracking down on political opponents and gay people. Two years later, it was reported that she began studying for the bar exam (without going to law school). Two years after that, she passed the "baby bar" on her fourth attempt. After a further four years of "study," Kardashian failed to pass the actual bar exam. But now, she is trying her hand at being an actress . . . I'll give you one guess on how that has turned out.
The reviews of Ryan Murphy's divorce drama have been universally horrible. On Rotten Tomatoes, the show has garnered a shocking 4% rating.
The Guardian's zero-star review was titled "Kim Kardashian’s Divorce Drama is Fascinatingly, Existentially Terrible." For context, I should tell you that the Guardian (in its 75 years of reviewing TV programs) has only given out two other zero-star reviews. On the reality star's performance: "Kim K as Allura . . . is as expressionless as you might expect, but is at least inoffensively useless." On the overall cast: "No one seems to know what they’re doing; the performances seem to respond to about nine different ideas of what the show is and the plots are dismal. The trio (“You’re the best divorce lawyers in town – maybe the country”) wrap up multiple cases in the time it takes Kim K’s nail varnish to dry." The show has also been derided for a jarring obsession with brand names (“Let’s get those Goyard travel cases and start stuffing!”), conspicuous consumption (“Oh my God – didn’t this belong to Elizabeth Taylor?”), and a concept of female empowerment (“I settled … Did I not love myself enough?”) that would have shamed the Spice Girls thirty years ago.
Empire magazine said that Kardashian performance makes "Keeping Up With The Kardashians" look like Citizen Kane. "Then there’s Kim Kardashian herself, the show’s inexplicable lead. In one early scene, an absurd number of candles are lit around her, presumably to create the illusion of emotion on her otherwise bored face. “She’s a dominatrix, I love that for her,” says Kardashian at one point, yet no “love” or expression of any kind is apparent. So wooden is her acting that the furniture around her looks positively alive by comparison," it added.
The Hollywood Reporter said that Kardashian’s performance was "stiff and affectless without a single authentic note."
USA Today said "the dialogue is stilted to the point of laughability . . . the plots are offensively dull and idiotic, and . . . it’s all wrapped in expensive and tasteless fashion."
You get the idea-- no need to pile on. Good luck to Kim K in her future endeavors.
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