Hollywood isn’t always fair.
Anthony Hemingway, who directed four episodes of “All’s Fair,” is defending the Kim Kardashian-led legal drama series from scathing negative reviews.
“You’re not going to please everybody,” Hemingway, 48, told The Hollywood Reporter in an interview published Wednesday.
“You may have certain criticisms, while there are a million others who love it,” the filmmaker continued. “I think the show holds a mirror up to each person who watches it. It’s just about: Can you connect to it or relate to it, and see yourself? It may be out of your league, it may not be anything you can connect to, and I think that goes for anything that gets presented on screen.”
Created, produced and written by Ryan Murphy, “All’s Fair” has a 6% rating from critics on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Post’s entertainment critic Lauren Sarner described the show — which centers on a group of women who work at a divorce law firm — as “awful in a way that’s mind-boggling.”
Sarner also called out Kardashian’s poor acting in her review.
“Every scene feels curated to be shared as a two-minute snippet on TikTok,” Sarner added about the show, which also stars Sarah Paulson and Glenn Close.
But Hemingway said that “All’s Fair” doesn’t deserve such negative feedback.
“It’s entertainment, it’s a comedy, and it’s a matter of finding ways to tap into real conversations and real human dynamics in a different way,” he told THR. “Every time you meet any sort of difference, it takes a minute to either develop a taste for it or not.”
“It may not be for you, and that’s OK, but I personally enjoy the show,” the director went on. “I had a lot of fun relating to it in my own way. Not everything is for everybody, and you can’t also expect one person to define something and for that be the totality of what it is — I don’t agree with that.”
The first two episodes of “All’s Fair” debuted on Hulu on Tuesday. The remaining episodes will be released weekly until the finale on Dec. 9.
“I also think sometimes things may take time,” Hemingway stated, before mentioning one of the most critically acclaimed shows in TV history that he worked on.
“I did ‘The Wire.’ No one liked the show when it was out,” he said. “They hated it. They didn’t watch it. Two people watched it every week. But it got to a point where it found a moment.”
“I’m not comparing the show to ‘The Wire’ — let’s get that straight — but it’s an example of how people can react to something in one moment, and it becomes something totally different in another time,” Hemingway added.
The director concluded, “The show takes a minute to get into gear, but I do feel like it is absolutely striking something that is refreshing and creatively fulfilling.”
Hemingway previously worked with Murphy on “Glee,” “American Horror Story” and “American Crime Story” — but none of those projects were as panned as “All’s Fair.”
USA Today‘s Kelly Lawler called the drama “the worst TV show of the year,” while the Hollywood Reporter’s TV critic Angie Han called the series “brain dead.”
