Get a first look at season 2, which fully leans into the outrageous vibe of the show, according to its stars.

All’s Fair stars Naomi Watts and Sarah Paulson say season 2 ‘doubled down’ on what fans want: ‘It’s a serve’ (exclusive)

Get a first look at season 2, which fully leans into the outrageous vibe of the show, according to its stars.

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Kim Kardashian, Sarah Paulson, and Naomi Watts on ‘All’s Fair’. Credit:

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- Sarah Paulson and Naomi Watts preview *All’s Fair* season 2.

- “It’s a serve, I can tell you that,” Paulson says. “It’s a ball thrown way up high in the air.”

- Watts promises the show has “doubled down in major ways” on he outrageous antics.

*All’s Fair*, Hulu’s unapologetically outrageous legal series, went from “worst TV drama ever” (according to a series of scathing reviews) to the No. 1 show on the streaming platform in a matter of weeks. Whiplash doesn’t quite cut the stark about-face in cultural consensus that eventually paved the way for season 2, premiering this November.

“Yes, there were lots of conflicting pieces of information being thrown at it, at us, about what it was and how people felt,” Naomi Watts, who plays Liberty Ronson, of the Grant, Ronson & Greene law firm of all-female divorce attorneys, tells **. “But, you know, at that point we were all so united. We were such a good, powerful group of friends that it didn’t matter. We were there for the ride.”

Some of her costars, including Kim Kardashian (Allura Grant) and Glenn Close (Dina Standish), poked fun at the reviews at the time. Though it was never about appeasing the masses, Watts says. “We knew we weren’t making Shakespeare, you know?” she comments on a joint Zoom call with Sarah Paulson (Carr Lane). “We were doing something that was fun, hopefully. And it’s a form of escapism for people to just enjoy and devour.”

And, oh, did the audience devour, fed on a diet of “cuntburger,” “piggly wiggly titties,” “discarded cum rag,” and other jaw-dropping dialogue — much of which Paulson herself delivered. The *American Horror Story* veteran now promises season 2 will over-serve their niche of viewers that boosted their ratings.

“It’s a real lean-in to give them what they want, and I believe we have,” Paulson says. “It’s a serve, I can tell you that. It’s a ball thrown way up high in the air.”

Kim Kardashian and Glenn Close on ‘All’s Fair’.

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“Ryan likes to feed the fans, and he’s done exactly that,” Watts says of creator Ryan Murphy. “We figured out what this was, what everyone wanted, and he’s doubled down in major ways.”

Niecy Nash-Betts (Emerald Greene), Teyana Taylor (Milan), and Matthew Noszka (Chase Munroe) all rejoin Kardashian, Watts, Paulson, and Close in the drama, co-created by Jon Robin Baitz and Joe Baken. The season 1 finale, which concluded last December, saw Dina framed for the murder of Emerald’s rapist as Carr, confessing homicidal thoughts to her therapist, attempted to infiltrate the law firm.

“I don’t commit a homicidal act in the second season, I can tell you that unequivocally,” Paulson comments. Though, “I wouldn’t put it past her,” she adds.

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There’s not much about the actual plot of the season that the actresses, both of whom recently shot the movie *Closing Night* together, feel safe sharing. However, a surface-grazing logline provided by Hulu signals new allegiances, tested friendships, and one shocking revelation that threatens the existence of Grant, Ronson & Greene. At the very least, based on EW’s first-look photos, it appears that Dina isn’t locked up for long.

Watts describes “high-level surprise, high-level drama” when thinking of the new story, while Paulson says there’s “significantly more comedy.”

As for how that translates, “I do feel that there’s been a little bit of a pullback on the cases and more about the interpersonal dynamics of the women,” Paulson posits. “We do have the cases, there are some guest stars” — they’re not saying who — “but the episodes center less around them and more around the group of us and our dynamics and that interplay.”

Kim Kardashian, Niecy Nash-Betts, and Naomi Watts on ‘All’s Fair’.

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Liberty will endure after calling off her engagement with Dr. Reggie Ramirez (O-T Fagbenle), according to Watts. “She started off someone that’s very buttoned up and the polite girl and, you know, she’s English,” the Murphy alum from *The Watcher*, *Feud*, and *Love Story* explains. “She’s slightly separated from some of [the women] because she feels a bit like an outsider, but she might surprise you at the same time. Like Sarah said, there’s some good laughs to be had. We’re definitely going for the [bits] that are the most outrageous.”

As for Carr, Paulson thought of her as “a sneak attack” of a character who came into a handful of season 1 episodes with a “psychotic spray of colorful language and outrageous behavior.” Paulson, too, prefaces a “surprise” in store for her arc.

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“There’s something so liberating about playing a person for whom nothing is off the table in terms of what you might say, what you might do, how you might behave,” she says. “It’s really fun to think about: What would I do if I didn’t give a s--- about what people thought about what I was saying or doing?”

The ladies already don’t, at least when it comes to those *All’s Fair *critiques. And with no more f---s to give in that regard, the show itself is liberated to be just “more,” Paulson adds.

“If you liked it before, you’re gonna love it now,” she says. “And if you didn’t like it before, you might like it now.”

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