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Meghan back on Instagram

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PrettyFlyforaMaiTai · 01/01/2025 17:21

Looks like she’s back on Instagram

www.instagram.com/meghan/reel/DESeJO5vFSN/

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Aspargar · 02/01/2025 22:30

IcedPurple · 02/01/2025 22:25

NF works on a subscription basis, not pay per view.

They make money by attracting new subscribers and retaining those they have. So if someone doesn't finish a series, it's a good indicator that that show is not going to encourage them to renew their subscription. So even if this series attracts some curiosity views, that's not necessarily a 'win' for NF.

Yes. I know how that’s how they make money but they record information on how much of an esp has been watched and if the series is completed.

It may not be their overriding data on whether to renew a series or not but it all plays a part.

Will NF get new subscribers to sign up for the show? ….dont know.

Aspargar · 02/01/2025 22:32

It does seem like a very basic level of cooking, jazzed up with £100s worth of flowers, seems weird.

IcedPurple · 02/01/2025 22:33

Aspargar · 02/01/2025 22:30

Yes. I know how that’s how they make money but they record information on how much of an esp has been watched and if the series is completed.

It may not be their overriding data on whether to renew a series or not but it all plays a part.

Will NF get new subscribers to sign up for the show? ….dont know.

That's what I'm saying. If viewers couldn't be arsed to watch until the end of a series, they certainly aren't going to renew their subscription on the strength of it.

I can't see anyone signing up for NF to watch Meghan pretend to host D listers in someone else's house. The 'good' bits will all be on social media anyway, so why put yourself out of pocket?

Thedom · 02/01/2025 22:45

If it puts your mind at rest Spectre8, I won't be watching it, but I will watch the excerpts that will, no doubt, be posted on SM. If I feel like commenting, then I absolutely will.

Galdownunder · 02/01/2025 22:51

Shes so basic. Hummus and a sponge? Not making me think I’ll watch and be motivated to have a go at something in my own kitchen.

elessar · 02/01/2025 23:15

I find it so funny that the show is described as spreading joy and inspiration. It's such an odd and pretentious thing to say about yourself - as if you tell people enough times that you're inspiring and joyful then you can force them to believe it.

I don't think I've ever seen any person who is genuinely joyful and inspiring describe themselves that way.

Anyway, the trailer is all a bit cringe. Netflix don't appear to be promoting it at all - the timing is really odd as others have said and it didn't appear anywhere in my "coming soon" list this evening.

It's hard to see it being successful. In my experience, cooking or lifestyle shows only really work if the host has either a lot of charisma or a great sense of humour, and has the ability to create something aspirational but in a relatable way. Meghan is far too concerned with her own image and appearing to be perfect at all times to be relatable, and she takes herself incredibly seriously. She and her Hollywood friends are also not the types to be tucking into cake with gusto, so it's hard to imagine it will come across as authentic.

But let's see. It doesn't interest me enough to watch it but I'll certainly be here for the comments! I also wonder whether there will be any linked launch of ARO (under that, or any other name)

TERFspice · 02/01/2025 23:23

I'd say it's a shame she's gone down the influencer/ Instagrammer route with this as thinning that out for an hour will be tiresome.

I actually think that her Grenfell cookbook was a great idea. She could have done something interesting with the same concept, I.e. cooking with ordinary people and hearing their extraordinary stories? It would be a good way of showcasing the causes she cares about, as well as her own cooking.

StartupRepair · 02/01/2025 23:44

Spectre8 · 02/01/2025 22:00

How is it a carbon copy? The trailer doesn't focus on afternoon tea or feature her child. She is wearing various colours.

Fair enough, it is not an exact copy and different purpose, but the vibe is similar.

itsstillmehere · 02/01/2025 23:56

Lifestooshort71 · 02/01/2025 22:26

I won't watch it because it doesn't appeal, the trailer is vacuous with saccharine overtones and I don't believe she has the training or talent to host a cookery programme - the excitement over a bog-standard Victoria sandwich set the level for me. However, despite all the above, I hope it's a financial success for her.

Excuse me - the glamorous Victoria sponge cake 😂

derxa · 03/01/2025 00:06

Oh my gosh. The vocal fry!!!!!!

Aspargar · 03/01/2025 00:16

Yes, I never knew the vocal fry was as pronounced as that. Maybe it’s spending all that time with kris Jenner and the Kardashians.

Spectre8 · 03/01/2025 00:55

StartupRepair · 02/01/2025 23:44

Fair enough, it is not an exact copy and different purpose, but the vibe is similar.

Yet you just saw something on another sm site and repeated it without checking if it's actually correct and you did it because you thought well if someone else said it then it's true. Spreading a false narrative to satisfy your need to be nasty about someone all under the guise of well it's okay to criticise her.

Now you try to palm if it off like oops but...

🙄

HaileyBailey · 03/01/2025 01:04

Bontonbonbon · 02/01/2025 22:00

@TulipTiptoer People saying they don’t like her based on things she has said and done which were rude and hurtful is not misogyny. I dislike them both equally.

And she does need us. She’s selling a product (herself and her TV show) so she needs as many people on side as possible. Telling a whole
nation they’re racists and then whining about the 3.4 million spent on her wedding (nothing was how she wanted it, according to her) is rude. She had support, money and the best the U.K. could give her but it wasn’t good enough. People are allowed to be annoyed by that. She hasn’t apologised and seems to believe that people should just get over it.

I find it quite stomach churning to watch her play pretend at being a kind person. She let her mask slip for all the see in the Oprah interview and it was incredibly illuminating. I would die of surprise if she ever did a single truly selfless thing.

This 100%

PigglyWigglyOhYeah · 03/01/2025 01:12

What a sad little collection of 'friends' . I thought she was supposed to be chums with the movers and shakers of Hollywood. I don't know who any of the people are that she has lined up as 'guests'. It's hardly Oprah, the Clooneys and Gwyneth, is it?

Ellmau · 03/01/2025 01:12

Will there be an episode when she cooks sausages?

Please, let there be sausages.

Vespanest · 03/01/2025 01:16

I wouldn't of noticed the vocal fry but having rewatched it I'll never not be able to hear it now. Has she always had it? The grrrrr on gravitate was impressive

HilariousNames · 03/01/2025 01:22

HaileyBailey · 03/01/2025 01:04

This 100%

Agree totally.

MakeYourOwnMusicStartYourOwnDance · 03/01/2025 01:48

Aspargar · 02/01/2025 10:16

Also without switching the comments section on, she won’t get the algorithms working for her. Which at under a million followers she’ll need, along with posting frequently.

I don't think she has anything to worry about there, she gets so much engagement just from one post of running onto the beach for example.
Glad she's keeping comments off, why invite any attacks in?! Does right imo.

MakeYourOwnMusicStartYourOwnDance · 03/01/2025 01:52

PigglyWigglyOhYeah · 03/01/2025 01:12

What a sad little collection of 'friends' . I thought she was supposed to be chums with the movers and shakers of Hollywood. I don't know who any of the people are that she has lined up as 'guests'. It's hardly Oprah, the Clooneys and Gwyneth, is it?

More sad is people that come to the internet to laugh at other people "look at her with her sad little collection of friends"
It's like the adult school bully playground.
That's what's sad.

Thebellofstclements · 03/01/2025 02:01

TERFspice · 02/01/2025 23:23

I'd say it's a shame she's gone down the influencer/ Instagrammer route with this as thinning that out for an hour will be tiresome.

I actually think that her Grenfell cookbook was a great idea. She could have done something interesting with the same concept, I.e. cooking with ordinary people and hearing their extraordinary stories? It would be a good way of showcasing the causes she cares about, as well as her own cooking.

A cooking session at a community hub each of the countries they have visited would be good, Colombia, Nigeria, Fiji etc. Someone's house, most likely. Admittedly it would be a squeeze in the kitchen but a chance to discover the local food and chat about what life is like for the less wealthy in those places could have been really interesting and "a force for good" which is what H&M were keen to be, apparently.

NotaRealHousewife · 03/01/2025 04:18

PigglyWigglyOhYeah · 03/01/2025 01:12

What a sad little collection of 'friends' . I thought she was supposed to be chums with the movers and shakers of Hollywood. I don't know who any of the people are that she has lined up as 'guests'. It's hardly Oprah, the Clooneys and Gwyneth, is it?

Why do they need to be famous?

BemusedAmerican · 03/01/2025 04:21

I cancelled my Netflix subscription yesterday and am picking up Britbox with the money I saved. Nothing to watch. This is no incentive.
BTW, the title reminds me of "Love, Nina".

Adults don't have balloons at their parties. Only kids. Even tea parties.

In the US, we frost the sides of our cakes and not just the tops.

Over the past year, people on this forum gave out loads of marketing and PR advice. I hope Meghan's PR interns appreciate the help.

EverybodyLovesString · 03/01/2025 05:41

That trailer feels like a collection of cliches for every third-rate cooking show - celebrities acting amazed by food, chirpy music, everyone pretending that cooking in a mansion is relatable, very slim women shoving cake in their gobs, glasses being clinked together and flowers everywhere. Without even watching I knew Meghan would be claiming to be "elevating" something. I'm surprised she didn't say she was being "intentional" as well. She loves a buzzword.

FatFiatMultiplaWhopper · 03/01/2025 06:47

The wish to be a "force for good" seems to have faded away, in favour of being a basic Instagram lifestyle influencer who got lucky. Which is exactly what she is.

pelargoniums · 03/01/2025 07:16

In the US, we frost the sides of our cakes and not just the tops.
I’m not just cancelling my Netflix subscription, I’m throwing my television away, this is the very end!

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