I'm sorry, with love is meghan is awful

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I tried.

I really did.

But JFC it's absolutely awful.

"Come and watch me make the most basic of crafts while telling me how much you admire me, and I gently patronise you"

Really awful.

Yes I agree - but as some as said she gets more hate and bad press than a child killer - perhaps she should just quietly raise her family as she and Harry wanted. - there are too many youtubers and Meghan bashers for this series to ever be a success.

Shows what she loves to do in a rented house so obviously not her usual day. A woman who previously said she was for woman now shows how to be a 1950's perfect housewife. It's cringe. It earns them money.

So if this is a resounding success are Netflix signing them up for another big contract? People are referring to it as make or break time but can this series really garner another lucrative Netflix contract or has that ship sailed? Rhetorical question really as I don’t suppose anyone other than Netflix really know.

I hate this kind of stuff, but I would pay GOOD money to watch Megan in Therapy, that would be worth watching as they explore narcissism and if it’s ever possible to recover - if she really wants to get her ratings that is the way to do it. Not a desperate housewives show with some non friends.

Then I think that is where the criticism comes from. I don’t understand the idea of watching a lifestyle blog. I wouldn’t watch it. I find it odd watching something I wouldn’t learn anything from. I think a lot of criticism stems from that that people do think it is instructional in nature and so are confused what the point is if they know all of it already.

I’m so over this form of ‘lifestyle’ programming. If I want to know about cooking I’ll look up an actual chef or cookery writer, if I want to know about gardening I’ll look for someone with actual relevant experience…. I’m utterly bored of random pretty things in floaty outfits giving suggestions & tips that are frankly just basic common sense or fluffy unnecessary crap. 😄

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Netflix were onto a non-starter with this series from the beginning. Lifestyle blogs and their associated content, the silly 'Celebrate' book, printed marshmallows and party tat companies, Gloop and its unappealing Vajayjay candles, even the heyday of reality TV, represent a cosy old world of home and cookery programmes and lifestyles of the rich and famous from an era of comfortable economic stability. They belong to an earlier moment that has now passed.

Netflix are not amateurs. They are an enormous, influential, highly profitable business, albeit they've more recently seen a downturn in fortuntes. They could have predicted where this series sat alongside current media tastes, and the rapidly-evolving ways in which the public consume their chosen media, from a country mile away.

So why didn't they?

If it's a lifestyle blog she shouldn't be doing it on netflix, that's not what netflix is for

She reminds me of Hilarious Baldwin in a way. Her gushing and simpering is just awful. I just don't think she's got a personality.

And buying a bouquet of balloons. I thought we were all more aware of how damaging balloons are now.

My sister lives in the US and we were chatting ( on WhatsApp) about the show yesterday, I’ve not actually watched it as I don’t have NF but have seen enough extracts on TV and on social media to get the gist.

My sister was not impressed with the quality of the food Meghan made, she thought the dishes were just a case of putting things together in fancy ways rather than cooking from scratch. However, she accepts that many Americans use pre prepared mixes and packets a lot of the time, such as mac and cheese out of a box, pancake mixes instead of simply using flour, eggs and milk, frozen pastries in a tube etc. So we decided that the show might appeal to the US audience more than a British one, after all Meghan is American and lives in California so it makes sense.

However, my sister also said the show is a bit dated, charcuterie boards are no longer in fashion for parties and with the price of food in the shops being such a problem, many people could not afford to spend a fortune on cutting up excessive amounts of fruit for breakfast that will get thrown out afterwards! She did like the idea of the one pan spaghetti dish ( yes, her friends do call spaghetti noodles!) and plans to try it soon.

She doesn't get to put herself on Netflix, Netflix obviously brought in to her idea and paid her to do it.

Really agree with this. I watched some of the first episode, and prepping things in a staged kitchen that she said she was going to then take to her actual home to put in the guest bedroom and get ready for her visitor didn't work.

If she had actually been at her house, getting ready for her guest, seeing him arrive etc it would have been much better. I think the only way either of them can make a show that anyone will watch is a proper reality show, warts and all. But they seem too desperate to try and heavily control their imagine and as a result just get weird stuff like this.

I understand she makes a proposal and Netflix will trial it to see if it has sny traction. She did the same thing with her axed kids stuff.

I haven’t see it, but it feels as if she would have been better off by revitalising the Tig, which does appear to have been well received back in the day and would have provided an authentic jump start. I wonder why she didn’t?

Netflix are not amateurs. They are an enormous, influential, highly profitable business, albeit they've more recently seen a downturn in fortuntes. They could have predicted where this series sat alongside current media tastes, and the rapidly-evolving ways in which the public consume their chosen media, from a country mile away.

So why didn't they?

Considering how polarising Meghan is, there are definitely people at Netflix who can't stand her either. Just like that Spotify exec who called them grifters. It's totally within the realm of possibility that the show was an opportunity to humiliate Meghan on a global level before the contract expired. The reviews for the show have been so toe-curlingly bad, including The Guardian who are normally very measured compared to tabloids.

Netflix knew As Ever would suck. They saw the immediate feedback under the trailer on Youtube, and interestingly decided to keep the comment section open without moderation. They originally scheduled the launch for mid January alongside Squid Game 2, which they knew would completely bury the show. The fact it was launched now means it's getting a bit more attention than planned.

I don’t think Harry would ever want to do an At Home with the Sussex’s type thing though so I doubt he’d feature much, it would be just another version of what’s she’s doing now and highly controlled. The Osborne’s it wouldn’t be.

Okay a TV show that is not very good. I would not watch this kind of lifestyle show anyway. I guess it is aimed at those in the US who watched Martha Stewart.

But lets be honest. None of you care about a lifestyle show. Its just a hook to post page after page of awful things about a woman who is a stranger. i am not a fan of Meghan. I am not a fan of many people to be honest. But criticising a woman who has an alcoholic dad who sold lots of stories to the press about her, so she has no or little contact with him? That is what most women would do if their dad behaved like that. But apparently Meghan is wrong to do that because before he sold all the press stories about her, she did not wash her dirt laundry in public by saying how awful her dad is. Instead she said she loved him. Newsflash, many people still love their alcoholic and badly behaved parent.

You people are just crazy.

You have missed the point. This was never about Megan’s father.

Please let everyone have their own opinion - it's not cool to bring each other down. Meghan is a divisive character - #BeKind

this is the weirdest part for me. If the whole point of the show is an 'at home with me' 'MY lifestyle' thing then surely it should be, you know, a slice of your life, not a rented one! Half expecting Eddie Redmayne or someone to walk on as fake!Harry.

I do understand the possible security concerns from filming in their own home, but if the Kardashians/Osbournes etc manage it, not to mention all of the million architectural digest type 'Come see my gorgeous home' celeb tours manage it then it can't be that insurmountable!

But I wonder how she will handle the situation when he passes away. She'll need good PR to handle that surely. (I know it's not the source of the topic so please don't)

She will likely fail at everything she does from now onwards, irrespective of the quality of the content. The media has made sure of that.

No one's reputation could survive such a relentless onslaught of online and media bullying, the like of which I've never witnessed before in my lifetime. It's been going on for years. Meghan Markle isn't the first, but the onslaught against her is the worst and is long past uncomfortable to witness.

The news media had everyone convinced Diana was at best an exhibitionist and at worst a neurotic (or even perhaps psychotic). The only other close parallel of our times that I can think of is Charlene of Monacco. Women who piss off the establishment in some way by daring to step out of turn are either dismissed as crazy, or as pathological liars whose every word has been so picked apart by the media that they're bound to discover some contradictory points. There's a long-standing precedent for it.

Hence half the objections people are coming up with upthread are merely salacious media gossip without one shred of evidence to back them up, then claiming it's the woman's 'own behaviour' that's instigated their relentless tirade of dislike. Don't these people ever get bored?

I feel genuinely sorry for Markle. And Charlene Wittstock. Nothing on earth would induce me to live in the kind of gilded cages they inhabit, not for all the money in the world.