https://www.telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2025/01/03/with-love-meghan-netflix-trailer-cringe-moments/
They have tried their hands at various pursuits in that time, from taking Silicon Valley roles that are nonsense even by the standards of Silicon Valley roles, to hosting podcasts that are inane even by the standards of podcasts, but the only big hits have come when they’ve done what they undeniably do best: wind up the critics, troll comment sections, draw out hate clicks, and turn up the annoying to 11.
Taken in this spirit, With Love, Meghan looks like an absolute triumph. We’re all in the content mines, and Meghan’s struck gold with what might just be the most gloriously pointless-looking few hours of television of 2025. It’s all there in the trailer, so let’s break down the magnificence.
So it’s a cookery and lifestyle show in which people are breezily interviewed while getting stuck in. A mind-expanding first of its kind, if you ignore Chef’s Table, Saturday Kitchen, Netflix’s own Salt Fat Acid Heat, The Martha Stewart Show, even the (golden) Ainsley Harriott years on Ready, Steady, Cook and, in fact, almost every cookery/talk/travel programme ever commissioned. Still, only a true maverick would deny the existence of an entire strand of television.
(While we’re at it, you’d also be a little put out if you were the owner-operator of the lifestyle and interiors blog With Love, Abigail, which has a curiously similar name and logo…)
If we were in any doubt that this is a project precision-engineered to enrage all the right people, here’s the tell. An at-home show predicated on offering a softer, domestic side to the Duchess, far away from the inauthenticity of showbusiness… turns out to have been filmed in a rented estate two miles down the road from where she really lives. That is not her kitchen. She has only just learnt which side the fridge door opens on. For all that dog knows, she’s run away to start a new life.
We can well understand why Meghan has done this – her own house is too full of children, chickens and Prince Harry to reasonably fit a camera crew and three famous friend-guests in – but more than anything else, this is a naked lure for the hate-clickers. Oh, she’s good. She’s very good.
You can’t even spell “Meghan” without a lost “H” appearing in the middle, and true to form, there he is, 85 seconds into the trailer – late by some expectations, but his arrival never in doubt.
The fifth in-line to the British throne shows up, mimosa in hand, probably wondering what the hell he’s filming now, whose house this is, whether the owners even know they’re here, why the dog’s been missing all summer, and just hoping, desperately hoping, that this marks a return to form for Team Sussex on Netflix after the disappointment of polo, his recent tribute to the deeply relatable hobby he shares with around 23 people worldwide.