All’s Fair Season 2 Is Here: Kim Kardashian and the Cast Return

The lawyers of Grant, Ronson & Greene are back in session. All’s Fair season two drops on Hulu today, November 4, almost exactly a year after the Ryan Murphy legal drama first turned divorce law into appointment television — and if the trailer is anything to go by, the firm’s second year is going to be messier, sharper, and a whole lot more fun than the first.

Kim Kardashian is back as Allura Grant, the powerhouse divorce attorney who built the all-female firm from scratch and then spent season one discovering that running a business with your closest allies is a lot harder than winning in court. She’s joined by the full core ensemble: Naomi Watts as Liberty Ronson, Niecy Nash-Betts as Emerald Greene, Teyana Taylor as Milan, Sarah Paulson as Carrington “Carr” Lane, Glenn Close as Dina Standish, and Matthew Noszka as Chase Munroe. One new face joins the main cast this time around: Brazilian actor Cauã Reymond, who steps in as a series regular playing Allura’s new bodyguard — a man who, the trailer strongly hints, is more than just a pretty face with a security detail.

Season one was a strange beast. Critics were, to put it kindly, not kind. Audiences, on the other hand, showed up in droves: the show became Hulu’s biggest scripted premiere in three years, which is the kind of number that makes a network’s decision for it. Hulu renewed the series before season one had even finished airing, and here we are, twelve months later, with eight new episodes and a cast list that reads like a guest list for the most chaotic dinner party in Hollywood.

When do new episodes come out?

Here’s the part you actually need for your calendar. Season two premieres today, November 4, with three episodes dropping at once: “The Scorpio Ball,” “Going Down,” and “Thanksgiving Part 1.” After that, it’s one new episode a week on Wednesdays — a shift from season one, which aired on Tuesdays, so set your reminders accordingly.

The full schedule, per Disney+, looks like this: episode 4, “Thanksgiving Part 2,” arrives November 11; episode 5, “Liberty Unleashed,” lands November 18; episodes 6 and 7, “Queens” and “Frenemies,” drop together on November 25; and the finale, “Carr Crash,” closes things out on December 2. New episodes are expected to hit Hulu at midnight Pacific, 3 a.m. Eastern, so the truly devoted can stay up absurdly late, and the rest of us can catch up over breakfast.

Season two is eight episodes, one fewer than season one’s nine, which honestly feels about right. The show works best when it’s moving fast — a case here, a betrayal there, a jaw-dropping outfit in between — and a tighter season should keep the momentum from sagging in the middle, which was one of the fairer complaints about year one.

What’s actually happening this season?

The official line is that the lawyers are back “for another season of scandals, secrets, and stilettos,” which is both a tagline and a pretty accurate job description. As new allegiances form and old friendships get tested, a shocking revelation threatens the very existence of the firm itself. That’s the big swing this year: it’s not just one case or one client causing trouble, it’s something that could bring the whole operation down.

The trailer gives us a few clues about where the drama is headed. Allura has a new love interest, which is always a recipe for complications when your job is handling other people’s divorces. Carr, played by Paulson with her usual delicious steeliness, looks like she’s making a play to take over the firm — or at least to reshape it in her own image. And Milan, Teyana Taylor’s character, has passed the California bar, which means she’s no longer the junior voice in the room. That’s a promotion with consequences, and the show seems ready to explore what happens when someone you mentored starts outgrowing you.

There’s also the Scorpio Ball, which opens the season and promises exactly the kind of glamorous, tension-soaked set piece this show does best: an extravagant party, an uninvited enemy, and everyone’s stingers out. Later episodes take the women out of the office entirely, including a trip to scatter Dina’s husband’s ashes that, naturally, goes sideways at 30,000 feet. Only on this show does a grief trip turn into a mid-air crisis. And that’s the appeal, really — All’s Fair never met a situation it couldn’t make more dramatic.

The returning cast, and why they matter

Let’s be honest: the cast is the show. Kardashian’s Allura is the gravitational center, but the ensemble is what gives the series its texture. Watts brings a brittle elegance to Liberty, the kind of woman who can end a marriage negotiation with a smile and leave the other side wondering what just happened. Nash-Betts is the show’s warm, funny backbone as Emerald, and her chemistry with the rest of the cast is one of the few things even the show’s detractors tend to praise.

Then there’s Paulson and Close, two of the most decorated actors working today, doing gloriously heightened work as Carr and Dina. Paulson has made a career out of playing women with secrets, and Carr fits her like a glove — watch her in any scene where she’s smiling while clearly planning three moves ahead. Close, as the firm’s mentor figure, brings genuine gravitas to a show that sometimes runs on pure camp, and that tension between the two registers is part of what makes All’s Fair so watchable. It’s sincere and ridiculous at the same time, and it knows it.

Noszka’s Chase returns as a series regular, and his character’s arc — caught between loyalty and ambition — feels like one of the season’s quieter pressure points. Taylor, meanwhile, gets a bigger spotlight this year with Milan’s bar passage, and if her season one work is any guide, she’ll steal more than a few scenes. She’s got that rare ability to be the funniest person in a scene and the most grounded one, sometimes in the same line reading.

The new faces are a whole event on their own

If the returning cast is the backbone, the guest list is the party. Season two’s guest stars include Denise Richards, Jaime Pressly, Margo Martindale, Robin Givens, Grant Show, and Noah Fearnley, plus Real Housewives of New York City alum Dorinda Medley. That’s already a lot of reality-TV and prestige-drama crossover energy, and we haven’t even gotten to the drag queens yet.

Yes, the RuPaul’s Drag Race contingent is back and bigger: Bob the Drag Queen, Monét X Change, Daya Betty, Lady Bunny, Olivia Lux, Marcia Marcia Marcia, and Jewels Sparkles are all in the mix, along with Nyle DiMarco. It’s a deliberately eclectic casting strategy — Ryan Murphy has always loved a big, buzzy ensemble — and it fits a show about a firm that handles the divorces of the rich, famous, and fabulously messy. The guest stars aren’t just stunt casting, either; in season one, the rotating clients and adversaries were often the best part of an episode, giving the main cast new people to spar with.

And then there’s Cauã Reymond, the one genuine newcomer to the main cast. The Brazilian actor and model plays Allura’s bodyguard, and the trailer makes it clear his motives may extend beyond simply keeping her safe. Is he a love interest? A threat? Both? The show is keeping details under wraps, which is probably wise — the speculation is half the fun, and a bodyguard with secrets is a classic Murphy move.

The premiere party already happened — and the looks delivered

The cast celebrated the new season in style this week, reuniting on the red carpet in New York City on November 2 for the season two premiere. Kardashian arrived in a sculpted grey gown by Ashi Studio, styled by Law Roach, with a sharply corseted bodice and cascading fringe that trailed into a train. Sarah Paulson went full drama in a black croc-embossed one-shoulder ball gown from Roksanda’s Spring 2027 collection, styled by Karla Welch. Naomi Watts chose a black Mugler midi dress with a sculpted plunging bodice, and Glenn Close turned heads by posing alongside drag queen Alexis Stone in matching ivory frayed-hem looks.

The New York event followed a premiere celebration in Mexico City, where the cast had already given fans a preview of the season’s fashion mood: maximalist, unapologetic, and very much on brand for a show where the courtroom is basically a runway. It’s worth remembering that All’s Fair treats fashion as storytelling — the clothes tell you who has power in a scene before anyone says a word — and season two looks like it’s doubling down on that.

So, is season two worth your time?

Here’s the thing about All’s Fair: it was never trying to be a prestige legal procedural, no matter how many Emmys its cast has between them. It’s a glossy, soapy, gloriously over-the-top drama about powerful women, expensive clothes, and the messiest divorces imaginable, and it’s at its best when it leans into that identity instead of apologizing for it. Season one’s biggest problem was that it sometimes seemed unsure what it wanted to be. Season two, judging by the trailer and the early episode descriptions, looks more confident — the firm itself is at stake, the power dynamics are shifting, and the cast knows exactly what show they’re on.

If you watched season one, the three-episode premiere drop is a perfect excuse to dive back in. If you skipped it, all nine season one episodes are streaming on Hulu, so you can catch up before tonight — or just jump straight into season two and let the show fill in the gaps, which it will, loudly and repeatedly, because that’s what soaps do. Either way, the firm is open, the stilettos are on, and court is in session. See you on Wednesdays.

Source: Just Jared