Glenn Close is responding to those scathing reviews of her new series, “All’s Fair,” by turning up the heat on the critics who wrote them.
The actor on Thursday shared a hand-drawn sketch on Instagram depicting her and co-stars Kim Kardashian, Naomi Watts, Sarah Paulson, Niecy Nash and Teyana Taylor grinning gleefully over a boiling pot containing a deceased rabbit.
“Critic-Bunny Stew,” the pot’s label read.
The image was a wink at Close’s Oscar-nominated performance in the 1987 psychological thriller “Fatal Attraction,” co-starring Michael Douglas. In the film, Close portrays Alex Forrest, an emotionally disturbed woman who seeks revenge on a married man, Dan Gallagher (Douglas), after a brief affair.
The movie’s most grisly scene finds Dan’s wife, Beth (Anne Archer), discovering that Alex has broken into their home and boiled a pet rabbit belonging to their young daughter.
Created by Ryan Murphy, “All’s Fair” follows a group of female divorce attorneys who launch their own practice after exiting a male-dominated legal firm.
The series’ release on Hulu last week was met with critical drubbings from numerous outlets, with The Times of London suggesting it “may be the worst TV drama ever.”
“These characters are so thin, their storylines so flimsy and their motives so underbaked that there’s no recognizable emotion underlying any of it, and thus no feeling to be provoked by watching it,” The Hollywood Reporter wrote, while The Guardian called it “fascinatingly, incomprehensibly, existentially terrible.”
Not surprisingly, many of the reviews singled out Kardashian, who ― despite a starring role on the 12th season of Murphy’s “American Horror Story” in 2023 ― is a considerably less seasoned thespian compared to Close, an eight-time Academy Award nominee.
True to form, Kardashian appears to be having the last laugh, with “All’s Fair” reportedly hitting the No. 1 spot on Hulu’s streaming chat after just one day of release.
On Thursday, the reality TV star and Skims founder offered her own tongue-in-cheek response to the reviews with a carousel of images showing some of the more blistering comments mixed in with snapshots of her and her co-stars.
“Have you tuned in to the most critically acclaimed show of the year!?!?!?” she wrote in the caption.