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

It's a bit boring- it's just a wealthy woman drifting around making pretty things in her kitchen. But a lot of people like watching that kind of content. It's fine to have on in the background whilst you're doing something else. I struggle to see how anyone could find it offensive.

I think the main thing is, not many people are all that interested in her as a person as such. As Harry's wife, yes, but as a unemployed former c-list actress not so much. That's no shade towards her, simply the truth. Without access to the royal family and it's associated glamour, she is just a random rich person showing off a lifestyle no-one else can really afford. Which is fine for a bit of escapism, but there is already a quite saturated market for that kind of show as it is.

@Magnastorm Fair enough. I do know a lot of people have been surprised when I cook spaghetti in minimal water to make pasta and sauce all in one pan. Obviously it's not as useful a tip as I thought it was. And saying a 20 minute low fat pasta dish with 3 different vegetables looks shit (try it!) and is only one step up from beans on toast is stretching it a bit!

But I agree about the overall tone and reverence. Tedious in the extreme.

No real interest. It's not my sort of thing, which isn't a criticism of her, I just don't really care about it.

Once you've got beyond pot noodles as a student who doesn't know you can boil up some pasta and veg in the same pot? I mean, really?

It's less that anyway, it's more that this was being presented as some sort of amazing taste sensation - particularly the reaction of her "friend" to it - when really it's about as basic a thing as you can make and she made it really badly.

Just like that laughable fruit platter rainbow thing and her gift bags. Who is going to watch that and think "oh yes, the think that will definitely go down well at a kids party is a massive platter of fruit and some gift bags with seeds in them"?

I just don't understand who the program is for, other than for people to laugh at how stupid it is.

I don’t hate her and I love crap TV so I did have a look at the episode lists… but it looks really boring. I do bake and have made my own bath salts but I don’t really see why Megan is better at it than me. If I need instruction in that sort of stuff I’ll watch a YouTube video. I’d be more interested in her doing beauty and fashion which she probably does know more about. I’m not sure who her audience will be.

@Magnastorm "I mean, in one episode she chopped up some vegetables and stuck some pasta on top of it while talking to someone she clearly had never met in her life before.

It looked shit, and honestly it's barely a step above beans on toast."

There is loads of entirely valid criticism- but the pasta is very similar to one I make regularly. It's quick, easy, low fat, has loads of veg and is delicious. And lots of people don't know you can cook spaghetti like that. So that's probably a bad section to choose!

At this stage though with all the jam making and lifestyle stuff I just think she's tone deaf with no self awareness.

She's caught between a rock and a hard place. Acting is no longer an option, charity work is frowned upon and jeered, now trying the traditional wife market.

I get a lot of people would rather she surrender and hide away.

I admire her strength. I'd have been mentally crushed beyond repair, going through the madness long ago.

Like interviews with her Dad about her new show.

I really struggle to see how anyone is learning anything from the show.

I mean, in one episode she chopped up some vegetables and stuck some pasta on top of it while talking to someone she clearly had never met in her life before.

It looked shit, and honestly it's barely a step above beans on toast.

I don't hate her. I used to stick up for her as I know what it's like to be unfairly excluded from a family with no one in your corner, I get that this is fairly tenuous in terms of a comparison.

At this stage though with all the jam making and lifestyle stuff I just think she's tone deaf with no self awareness.

I ignore them now but I do get very upset at the constant and gleeful bitching by some people who appear to treat hating her as a public sport.

Ahhh yes, with the same flowers that Kate used for her bouquets that were spoken of as 'charming'.

@GlowOrb <shrugs> Martha Stewart doesn't use a carrier oil either.

I have no skin-burnt or unburnt-in this game. I just remember the Mail's article about her potentially poisoning Charlotte with her wedding bouquet.....

I'm indifferent to her, I don't hate or like her, I do like those types of shows but she just seems to have got it completely off the mark.

Decamping things from one plastic bag to another, she could have put it in reusable or sustainable packaging and still make it look personal. There's so much she could have done with that show, but tbh it's just drivel.

I did laugh at her fruit rainbow though, it's the sort of shite I'd have done with my dc, making tea into funny faces, not sure it warrants a tv show.

It is bizarre. It is outright bullying.

Plus the 1000s of readers who are all too willing to hop onto the comments for the abusive pile on.

It's fine .. but they're ace x

It’s must watch TV. Have learnt loads of culinary tips etc.

It is completely bizarre. If they actually wanted what they claim to want (M&H to fall into obscurity), I’m pretty sure the papers could manage it by just not publishing a word about them.

Ask any has been pop star trying a comeback who can’t get any column inches!

I agree they are like stalkers. Can't live without her. Scores of articles daily over years. Someone somewhere is making a lot of money hating on Meghan

I haven't watched it.

I like Meghan, I believe that the Daily mail should be charged with obsessive harassment.

I don't know why I log into the website, it is a bad habit, it's disturbing the constant flie of obsessive negativity around her, I never click them.

Exactly this. I also found her accent quite annoying which I hadn't really noticed before. It was very sickly sweet and just all a bit too much, and I normally enjoy a good home programme!

I am firmly in the "let her do her thing" but it came over like a trad wife blog - hand making everything from scratch even jam. It was boring too. I don't know how you could just sit and watch it and not just reach for your phone for entertainment. So i wanted to like it but too trad wife for me. Feels like she is just hiding in domesticity rather than being out in the world.

Well, she claims to be into beekeeping but said she hadn’t been to see her bees in two months. The beekeeping expert with her quickly said that he had been to see them more recently. I’m surprised they kept that conversation in. Can’t she see what a bad impression that gives?
She also glares at her guests when they say something she doesn’t like. I really think whoever edited it doesn’t like her at all.
And it is so dull and repetitive.

@CurlewKate
I read a bit further into the bath salt thing, and it seems the criticism is basically about two issues. One is that when she uses the essential oil, it's not clear if she has diluted it with a carrier oil, as using the essential oil neat could cause skin irritation. The second issue brought up is that after she makes up the bath salt, she realizes that she doesn't have enough to fill the jar, so she throws in more salt which, according to critics, throws off the ratio of the recipe. No comment. I'm not a great fan of bath salts, so I'm never going to make any.

@GlowOrb
I googled this- because I am a serial maker of various forms of shit, although never bath salts, and she's using a bog standard recipe. The same one Martha Stewart uses. So I reckon it's OK.

I've watched a couple more episodes and I'll probably finish the series - it does improve from the first episode. Meghan is likeable enough, the interactions are a bit clunky, but I like the lifestyle stuff.

I enjoy homegrown/beekeeping/food/candle making/crafts etc, and it's all easy on the eye and pleasantly calming.