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

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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?

It's not a bad premise for a show, but I think it's tricky to get right and hit the spot. Perhaps have friends who she's more relaxed with? or have a regular cook who can demonstrate recipes and she learns along?
I think she's fine to sell the pancake and the cake mix and whatever, but more practical cooking tips would be good.

Can you just stop this nasty bullying? I'm not bothered about her one way or the other, but for god's sake she's been relentlessly targeted for years under one excuse or another. Just leave her alone.

It's not her house therefore the show loses its authenticity right there. She could have made something much more relatable and clever its a shame this is so twee and silly. She doesn't know who her audience is. Something more real about life with snall kids could have engaged people a lot more amd it would have been nice for them to have a win.... The way she talks about kids would make me think she doesnt actually know many ! Its like big little lies tv series but without the interesting drama.

@PootlemcSmootle people always evaluate miniseries!

I think that's definitely a problem, @Littlemisscapable , it's not her home, it's not really her life. However, she's probably trying to balance privacy with welcoming people into her life and lifestyle, so that's where it's bound to get compromised. I think if it was just a cookery show it wouldn't matter too much, but this is At Home With Meghan.

I just find it all a bit meh. This is not something she’s known for or known to be an expert in, so why would anyone watch it?

I'll stick with Jamie Oliver and his massive shed in his garden. I absolutely love his shed ( with running water and electric) but his dog Conker steals the show (and his Dad when he pops in).

Not bothered about Meghan but this seems like Pippa and her book again.

I don’t dislike her, but I also have no interest in watching. I might watch it in the future, but lifestyle stuff like that isn’t what I usually watch.

This. I watched bits of the first episode and it genuinely left me depressed more than anything else. It's the kind of aspirational lifestyle 'vibes' which she is trying to convey that is so brutally at odds with the mood of our time. It's just sad. Like watching footage of an extinct species. But it's also irritating because if we're in the shit, it's because the kind of affluence that she embodies feels so hopelessly unattainable for most of us. For 'aspirational' to work, it's got to feel a little more relatable, yet all this show achieves is to shove their privilege into people's faces.

That’s just her married name. Feminists change their name on marriage all the time.

It’s complicated. Harry doesn’t technically have a last name. People with royal styles don’t use one. He’s on Archie’s birth certificate as ‘Henry Charles Albert David Duke of Sussex’. Before that, he used Wales as a surname at school and in the army, from his father’s then title. Similarly, William and Katherine’s children used Cambridge at school — not clear whether they will have started to use Wales now that William is PoW? Similarly, Edward’s wife was routinely known as Sophie Wessex (now the Duchess of Edinburgh…)

The Mountbatten-Windsor name was invented by QEII in 1960 for her male-line descendants when a surname was needed. Edward’s daughter Lady Louise, it having been decided that she and her siblings wouldn’t have royal titles, was the first to have it on her birth certificate. Anne and Andrew used it on their marriage certificates. William apparently used it when filing a legal suit in France.

The whole fuss around her has passed me by so am indifferent to her, have watched the first few episodes of the show. The first two felt a contrived and self conscious but I thought the Korean chef was very likeable and she seemed much more relaxed and relatable when he was there. It’s all very out of touch of course, and I would have liked to have seen something a bit more eco conscious. Balloon arches on plastic tape and transferring snacks from one plastic bag to a more aesthetic plastic bag feels inappropriate in 2025.

I watched the first one out of curiosity.

The music was really odd like jazz lite / lift music, and seemed to do a lot of filling time when nothing was happening.

It’s not a cookery programme as there were no methods, measurements etc given for the food. They made spaghetti (noodles!) and then it looked like they each were given a minute portion so I don’t know how many it was supposed to serve.

The way Daniel waved that knife around after he cut himself was 🙈!

I would also be really surprised if I had a friend to stay and at the end of the evening they ran themselves a bath and soaked for an hour (whilst munching rebagged pretzels, though I guess the spaghetti wouldn’t have filled them up sufficiently). That rather speaks to a wealthy person having a spare bedroom that has a full bathroom attached to it. I’m not convinced Daniel was actually going to stay the night though.

If I were her I would be annoyed about the constant use of my maiden name, same as the media continuing to use Kate Middleton.

They really don’t. Feminists have very little truck with reactionary customs dating from a period when women were legally subsumed into their husbands on marriage, having legally existed as an aspect of their fathers previously.

she's a Mounbatten-Windsor as is Harry and Charles, ergo her, through marriage, surely?

They don't do names that way though do they?
William and Harry used to use the surname Wales.
William and Catherine used the surname Cambridge for their children. Now I think it's changed to Wales.

So using the name sussex fits entirely with that naming pattern.

She's completely pivoted to be a trad wife in this - i admired her for being a liberal independent woman, but that has been dropped.

It's vacuous content, and she seems stressed, there's no feeling of her comfortably hanging out with a friend. This is based on the first episode, I couldn't watch to the end to be honest.

I thought of the Sabrina Carpenter line from Please Please Please ' they say that you're an actor, so act like a stand up guy', she can't act relaxed with a supposedly good friend.

I didn't see the Mindy Kayling episode, but I saw the clip where she says she's Megan Sussex, not Meagan Markle, and I thought it was very Trad Wife - how wonderful that her little family all have the same name, felt a bit judgey of women who'd kept their own name.

Yes - and as another poster says above, the lack of thought about waste and single-use plastic is out of touch, too.

I watched another clip last night and she’s quite stilted and not very charismatic - but she’s also just so THIN! The reason lifestyle presenters/ cooks like Nigella and Ina Garten are successful (and fwiw, Kirsty Alsopp even though I find her intensely annoying), is that they actually look like they might enjoy actually eating some food every so often! Being that thin is not normal in real life, and it’s pretty alienating if you’re trying to sell schtick about living the good life. Meghan might arrange fruit and yoghurt in a pretty way, but she clearly never actually eats anything apart from some lightly steamed fish and spinach once every couple of days or so. It’s not exactly aspirational in the way that when Barefoot Contessa was the thing 15 years ago, you could actually think how nice it would be to live in Ina’s house and eat that food.

The first episode was fine. I might make the pasta dish. Looks easy enough. Not very original and I watched because I'm nosey! Her friend in episode 1 seemed really nervous though!

She could do a lot more with her "platform" but I guess she's hoping this will work. I'd prefer to see it shot in her own home with the children wandering about but that will never happen.

I'll keep watching.

I'm against the concept of "royalty", but H&M are my favourite "royals". I admire that they've gone their own way. I won't be watching this show, as it isn't my thing, but I like that she hasn't just gone into hiding. It doesn't matter at all that I don't like that kind of show. If it does something good for her, then there's value in it for her, and that's what matters. I don't watch all of tv, because it isn't all something that interests me.

Williams kids are called "Charlotte Cambridge" or "George Cambridge" at school

I saw some photos and she dressed up quite weird for the kitchen: wearing pale silk skirts and fluttery sleeves while prepping food. There was also one photo where she was wearing a shirt and I think just undies beneath. I think she is trying to promote her lifestyle as something the audience should aspire to, but I don't have the money or the leisure time to be like her or want to be like her. I need to make a living ...

She's a narcissist. It explains everything.. she's only interested in herself and her image. The royal family model never suited her agenda or her narrative where she needs to be the star celebrity. I wouldn't watch her show if you paid me money to. No thanks.

“That’s a really nice froth!”

Truer words were never spoken.

Feminists often do change their names when they get married. I did, but only after my DH offered to change his to mine. We agreed on a way forward that suited our family.

No all feminists marry men, but want a shared family name.

I look at the strong, activist feminists in my family and social group and see a range of decisions that they've made in their lives, for lots of different reasons. Their feminist credentials remain intact.

Generalising like this rarely works.

I just watched the second episode anyway - better than the first. Maybe the whole series will get a bit livelier as it goes on. Love that Le Creuset pan