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If you're a non-meghan markle hater, what's your opinion on her show on netflix?

382 replies

mumofoneAlonebutokay · 04/03/2025 18:18

It's been panned but a lot of the press already hate her, hence my asking

Is it really that bad? I'm in my 30s and it doesn't seem aimed at my age group from the clips online.

There's one bad clip of her correcting mindy kaling on her name but I'm sure that's just been put out to make her look bad 😭

Worth a watch?

OP posts:
Shoezembagsforever · 16/03/2025 09:53

Yorkshiredolls · 04/03/2025 18:20

Ive watched a couple of episodes out of curiosity. It’s a bit sickly sweet but essentially just a bit of a wholesome lifestyle show. I can’t get worked up about it. Still don’t hate her.

But it’s not a “lifestyle show” because it’s filmed in a completely different house down the road for security reasons, while she pretends that it’s her house.

Nigella Lawson films in a studio made to look like a house, but it’s a cookery show not a lifestyle show.

I’m not a Megan hater but the sheer cynicism of this show and its disdain for its audience has made her go right down in my estimation.

CandidHedgehog · 16/03/2025 09:50

TENSsion · 16/03/2025 09:47

Yes. I’m incredibly stupid. My comprehension was a huge barrier to achieving a MA in Applied Linguistics. My lecturers had actually never seen someone unable to read achieve a distinction before. They’d never seen anyone give birth in both the years of the course, achieve a distinction AND be unable to read before.

I’m a real marvel. They wrote academic journals about me. I’m just so, so stupid.

Now, what were you saying about being “unkind” and “hateful” towards someone…?

Edited

So I should stop giving you the benefit of the doubt, assume you have understood what I’ve posted and that you are just deliberately lying about what I’ve said.

Noted.

TENSsion · 16/03/2025 09:47

CandidHedgehog · 16/03/2025 09:42

And? That post specifically says you can post anywhere you like. I was just asking why.

Do you often have comprehension issues with things you read?

Also, I mentioned one previous emoji in the context of assuming the poster intended the usual meaning of said emoji? I certainly haven’t said I ‘hate’ them. Is this another example of you imagining people have said things they haven’t?

This is starting to look like a pattern….

Yes. I’m incredibly stupid. My comprehension was a huge barrier to achieving a MA in Applied Linguistics. My lecturers had actually never seen someone unable to read achieve a distinction before. They’d never seen anyone give birth in both the years of the course, achieve a distinction AND be unable to read before.

I’m a real marvel. They wrote academic journals about me. I’m just so, so stupid.

Now, what were you saying about being “unkind” and “hateful” towards someone…?

CandidHedgehog · 16/03/2025 09:42

TENSsion · 16/03/2025 09:37

“I don’t think most people hate her and I include you in that but you clearly don’t like her which means you’ve deliberately come onto a thread that the OP has specifically said is not for you. Obviously you can post anywhere you like but why?”

Prepare yourself, there’s another hateful emoji coming in…. 😏

And? That post specifically says you can post anywhere you like. I was just asking why.

Do you often have comprehension issues with things you read?

Also, I mentioned one previous emoji in the context of assuming the poster intended the usual meaning of said emoji? I certainly haven’t said I ‘hate’ them. Is this another example of you imagining people have said things they haven’t?

This is starting to look like a pattern….

TENSsion · 16/03/2025 09:37

CandidHedgehog · 16/03/2025 09:07

But that doesn’t address that point. At all.

Also, you’ve claimed I told you to leave the thread (I didn’t, I specifically said you were entitled to post wherever you liked) and you apparently think any attempt to control what you post needs calling out (don’t disagree on that point, actually) but you are happy to police what I post on the thread?

Do you even see the raging hypocrisy?

“I don’t think most people hate her and I include you in that but you clearly don’t like her which means you’ve deliberately come onto a thread that the OP has specifically said is not for you. Obviously you can post anywhere you like but why?”

Prepare yourself, there’s another hateful emoji coming in…. 😏

ohfook · 16/03/2025 09:14

I liked it in the same way I like a lot of similar shows just as a nice bit of escapism. It’s nothing groundbreaking just literally just a harmless bit of tv with a rich lady faffing on doing all the stuff I’d faff on doing if I was rich. I don’t think it deserves the absolute slating it got at all.

I tried the pasta recipe and that was nice too.

CandidHedgehog · 16/03/2025 09:07

TENSsion · 16/03/2025 09:02

Happy to repeat

Can I just say, for clarity:
I don’t have a problem with them leaving the uk because it felt completely overwhelming. I’d hate that scrutiny. Fair play for wanting to reduce it.
I also don’t have a problem with them realising that they actually really like being rich and going to the fancy parties and that the only way to continue that is to sell their life as a product. I also think it’s reasonable to still dislike the criticism even after making this decision.
Completely understandable.
But to write essays to posters, condemning them, for having a little eye roll or smirk about it is absolutely absurd.
That is my stance.
and in the words of an amazingly passive aggressive poster on here… HTH 😀😀

But that doesn’t address that point. At all.

Also, you’ve claimed I told you to leave the thread (I didn’t, I specifically said you were entitled to post wherever you liked) and you apparently think any attempt to control what you post needs calling out (don’t disagree on that point, actually) but you are happy to police what I post on the thread?

Do you even see the raging hypocrisy?

TENSsion · 16/03/2025 09:02

CandidHedgehog · 16/03/2025 08:59

Still no response to the substantive point.

how is anything you have posted relevant to the tabloid claim that they can’t have any privacy if they want to sell programmes / books about themselves.

Happy to repeat

Can I just say, for clarity:
I don’t have a problem with them leaving the uk because it felt completely overwhelming. I’d hate that scrutiny. Fair play for wanting to reduce it.
I also don’t have a problem with them realising that they actually really like being rich and going to the fancy parties and that the only way to continue that is to sell their life as a product. I also think it’s reasonable to still dislike the criticism even after making this decision.
Completely understandable.
But to write essays to posters, condemning them, for having a little eye roll or smirk about it is absolutely absurd.
That is my stance.
and in the words of an amazingly passive aggressive poster on here… HTH 😀😀

CandidHedgehog · 16/03/2025 08:59

TENSsion · 16/03/2025 08:57

It was a wry smile emoji.

Get over it

Edited

Still no response to the substantive point.

how is anything you have posted relevant to the tabloid claim that they can’t have any privacy if they want to sell programmes / books about themselves.

Sortalike · 16/03/2025 08:59

Can't say I have an opinion on her or Prince Harry either way, but the show is deadly dull and nothing new.

Sun Tea? Sprinkling flowers in food? How to blow up balloons? Making "darling" crostini?

I feel like she needs to find her niche, and be authentic, but her show is so far removed from normality it's hard to relate to it.

CandidHedgehog · 16/03/2025 08:59

TENSsion · 16/03/2025 08:56

Ah sorry.

That was the other poster.

It was hard to tell you apart with all the “eloquence” and exclamation marks.

Same here. Please point to where I told you to leave the thread.

TENSsion · 16/03/2025 08:57

CandidHedgehog · 16/03/2025 08:49

I’m really not ‘enraged’ and your insistence on attributing strong emotions to anyone who disagrees with you about the Sussexes while insisting you don’t dislike them is really odd.

You might want to think about why you are making such strange assumptions….

Edited to say: And no, what you have said does not address how is anything you have posted relevant to the tabloid claim that they can’t have any privacy if they want to sell programmes / books about themselves.

Edited

It was a wry smile emoji.

Get over it

TENSsion · 16/03/2025 08:56

BustingBaoBun · 16/03/2025 08:51

Where? Please link to my post telling people 'leave the thread'.

Ah sorry.

That was the other poster.

It was hard to tell you apart with all the “eloquence” and exclamation marks.

BustingBaoBun · 16/03/2025 08:51

TENSsion · 16/03/2025 08:48

You’ve told posters to leave the thread 😂

Where? Please link to my post telling people 'leave the thread'.

CandidHedgehog · 16/03/2025 08:49

TENSsion · 16/03/2025 08:36

I have. She isn’t always truthful.

It is perfectly possible that she told people she was leaving because of the public scrutiny, and that that was leaked, but then denied that to the public when she realised she needed their attention.

How do you feel about criticism about other celebrities? Are you always so enraged by people criticising them? Or is your passion limited to MM and PH?

Edited

I’m really not ‘enraged’ and your insistence on attributing strong emotions to anyone who disagrees with you about the Sussexes while insisting you don’t dislike them is really odd.

You might want to think about why you are making such strange assumptions….

Edited to say: And no, what you have said does not address how is anything you have posted relevant to the tabloid claim that they can’t have any privacy if they want to sell programmes / books about themselves.

TENSsion · 16/03/2025 08:48

BustingBaoBun · 16/03/2025 08:45

Odd.

Posters discouraged from expressing a valid opinion on a discussion forum, because it's construed as 'passion' and 'overreaction'. first time I've heard of that, maybe I'm just more eloquent than some! Why on earth do you think I am angry 😅😂😂

Just seen your other post and now I am 'virtuous' !! Just a suggestion, perhaps stop being so personal in your posts.
P.s. I haven't said you hate her

You’ve told posters to leave the thread 😂

TENSsion · 16/03/2025 08:47

Can I just say, for clarity:

I don’t have a problem with them leaving the uk because it felt completely overwhelming. I’d hate that scrutiny. Fair play for wanting to reduce it.

I also don’t have a problem with them realising that they actually really like being rich and going to the fancy parties and that the only way to continue that is to sell their life as a product. I also think it’s reasonable to still dislike the criticism even after making this decision.
Completely understandable.

But to write essays to posters, condemning them, for having a little eye roll or smirk about it is absolutely absurd.

That is my stance.

and in the words of an amazingly passive aggressive poster on here… HTH 😀😀

BustingBaoBun · 16/03/2025 08:45

Odd.

Posters discouraged from expressing a valid opinion on a discussion forum, because it's construed as 'passion' and 'overreaction'. first time I've heard of that, maybe I'm just more eloquent than some! Why on earth do you think I am angry 😅😂😂

Just seen your other post and now I am 'virtuous' !! Just a suggestion, perhaps stop being so personal in your posts.
P.s. I haven't said you hate her

TENSsion · 16/03/2025 08:40

BustingBaoBun · 16/03/2025 08:29

How weird that you are telling anyone who doesn't agree with you that they are 'overreacting'.
Maybe read my post and answer properly instead of this overreacting nonsense!!!
My point is that those that don't like the couple are driving interest in them by continually writing about them and clicking on everything that is written in the media.

All I did was give my point of view. Perhaps you are the one 'really really overreacting' if that is all you can come up with! 😂

Edited

and I have responded to this.

I am criticising SOME of MM’s behaviour which does not equal to hating someone.

Ive truly never seen this level of anger toward people doing this in defence to any other celebrity.

I find it all very odd.

Do you think your defence of her is somehow a reflection of how virtuous you are?

What’s really going on here?

TENSsion · 16/03/2025 08:36

CandidHedgehog · 16/03/2025 08:26

Still not responded to the substantive point.

I have. She isn’t always truthful.

It is perfectly possible that she told people she was leaving because of the public scrutiny, and that that was leaked, but then denied that to the public when she realised she needed their attention.

How do you feel about criticism about other celebrities? Are you always so enraged by people criticising them? Or is your passion limited to MM and PH?

TENSsion · 16/03/2025 08:34

BustingBaoBun · 16/03/2025 08:29

How weird that you are telling anyone who doesn't agree with you that they are 'overreacting'.
Maybe read my post and answer properly instead of this overreacting nonsense!!!
My point is that those that don't like the couple are driving interest in them by continually writing about them and clicking on everything that is written in the media.

All I did was give my point of view. Perhaps you are the one 'really really overreacting' if that is all you can come up with! 😂

Edited

The not about the disagreement. It’s about the ahem passion with which you disagree

BustingBaoBun · 16/03/2025 08:29

TENSsion · 16/03/2025 08:22

You are really, really overreacting here.

People are entitled to criticise people who rely on public favour. People are allowed to criticise behaviours they don’t like.

How weird that you are telling anyone who doesn't agree with you that they are 'overreacting'.
Maybe read my post and answer properly instead of this overreacting nonsense!!!
My point is that those that don't like the couple are driving interest in them by continually writing about them and clicking on everything that is written in the media.

All I did was give my point of view. Perhaps you are the one 'really really overreacting' if that is all you can come up with! 😂

CandidHedgehog · 16/03/2025 08:26

TENSsion · 16/03/2025 08:20

They did lie.

I love my husband and children more than anything in this world, but if they lie, I’m being perfectly reasonable to say they’re lying. That doesn’t mean I suddenly hate them or even dislike them.

Just that I know they’re lying and that they shouldn’t have lied.

Still not responded to the substantive point.

TENSsion · 16/03/2025 08:22

BustingBaoBun · 16/03/2025 08:16

Because they rely exclusively on public interest in them and tabloid stories

And that is driven by those that dislike them because they pour over the internet looking for anything on the couple to criticise!

Whereas someone like me who is ambivalent about them or thinks they are OK just cannot be bothered to read all the guff that is written about them day in day out. Bottom line, detractors of the couple keep them relevant!

If you want them to go away, stop reading and writing about them!

You are really, really overreacting here.

People are entitled to criticise people who rely on public favour. People are allowed to criticise behaviours they don’t like.

TENSsion · 16/03/2025 08:20

CandidHedgehog · 16/03/2025 08:19

we know that the interview with Oprah wasn’t exactly an honest account of anything.

Most people think calling people liars is unkind and not something done to someone you like. HTH.

I notice you haven’t actually responded to my substantive point - how is anything you have posted relevant to the tabloid claim that they can’t have any privacy if they want to sell programmes / books about themselves.

They did lie.

I love my husband and children more than anything in this world, but if they lie, I’m being perfectly reasonable to say they’re lying. That doesn’t mean I suddenly hate them or even dislike them.

Just that I know they’re lying and that they shouldn’t have lied.

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