Netflix has delayed start of Meghans show

[Viviennemary]

Just seen on Sky News. Breaking News headlines. Delayed because of the wild fires didn't say if this was technical difficulties or it would be a bit crass to launch a frothy type lifestyle show with all the devastation. Anyway it might be shelved for good with any luck.

Was it not an American actress who said it ?

Justine Batmen said it,

I totally agree @Saveusernames . And it is the height of narcissism (not to mention bad taste) to place the locus of your own failures (failing vanity projects at that) on third parties who are actually suffering something awful against their will and would like to be anywhere else but in the midst of that suffering, as if their misery is in some way an act of deliberate sabotage.

Yes, I think plenty of Americans have said it.
Slightly sad "salty" wasn't stuck in there along with that terrible insult "British"; seems to have gone a bit out of fashion.

Didn't realise Justine Bateman was a weirdo Brit.
Plenty of Americans are calling them disaster tourists, grief grifters, vultures. Their beahiour this time really does seem to have rankled Americans quite deeply.

Good try

There's a whole barrage of Americans criticising H&M now. The post of Justine Bateman (a very well-known American) went viral in the US precisely because she's reflecting a widespread disapproval of what they got up to in Pasadena.

The story is now all over US media and social media. It's resulted in many people looking a bit closer at the narrative.

It's not the UK's fault that H&M have become unpopular in the US. Take it up with US citizens, journalists, You Tubers, and celebs.

Just think - today's the day the show should have appeared.

Absolutely not just Brits. The tide has turned on them in the US too.

He looks so miserable, all the time.

Meghan is now reshooting scenes with this delicious donut cake .

You can't believe this?

I'm disappointed - I was looking forward to watching it.

They do have the worst luck. Certainly with covid as it stopped them making the big splash and that was when interest was at its highest
People are still interested in them and I would think as she was featuring in this as opposed to Polo the figures might not be dire, at least initially although can't see man consuming the whole series.
The problem for them is that she doesn't come across as authentic, its all so performative. Harry seems a bit clueless and to be fair its a whole different world to him. Really now they need to focus on what next, the Netflix deal is v unlikely to be renewed so they will need new guaranteed income streams to fund their v expensive lifestyle

An American media outlet- saying the comments section on the YouTube page of the NF With Love, Meghan, is pure entertainment .

https://www.barstoolsports.com/blog/3536063/big-thanks-are-in-order-to-netflix-for-leaving-the-comments-on-under-the-trailer-for-meghan-markles-insufferable-new-lifestyle-show?utm_content=buffer61e56&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

‘Which has to be the most inspid, vapid, grandiose piece of pretentious dreck ever put on screen. Even by Netflix standards, this is trash

But to finally get to what I came here for, it seems like Netflix is no more pleased with this cloying ego trip than anyone else. Because they took the practically unheard of route of keeping the YouTube comments open, even as this trailer was getting ratioed into the molten core of the Earth. With 1.2 million views so far, it only has 17K likes, which works out to about 1.2% of all viewers giving it the thumbs up. And it seems like each of the other 98.8% left a comment. A negative one.

Over 54,000 comments as I'm posting this. And finding a positive one would be like trying to find a particular grain of sand at the beach. And in leaving the comments open, Netflix has done a public service that will entertain their audience more than this exercise in self-aggrandizement and ego gratification ever could. By an order of magnitude more.’

I think that March makes sense. NF will want to distances themselves from the disaster tourism duo (a name given by Americans not Brits) and March is nearer the contract end date with the pair. (I assume that NF won’t be renewing )

I think that they will air the programme unless releasing a trailer but not the programme itself is normal for NF. Is there going to be a cookbook accompanying the series? Pamela Anderson is releasing her cookery show on plant based cooking this year but the book itself was released last year.

Pamela Anderson has already had a cooking show aired, I think? Pamela's Cooking With Love. It was announced ages ago, anyway, back in 2023 and supposed to air in 2024. Another bit of copycatting on MM's part with the name. Ms Anderson is also having a spectacular return to acting, getting huge praise for The Last Showgirl. Good on her for her renaissance.

I don't understand why Meghan doesn't go back to acting? Instead of trying lifestyle shows and living with Meghan and Harry type stuff why not just do what she had been doing previously if she wants to/has to work. It feels like they have been trying everything to be successful since they left the Royal family except for the obvious she does acting and he does whatever it was he did before.

Well she didn’t exactly set the heather alight with her acting career did she ? A ( soon to be ending) supporting role in a cable show isn’t exactly Oscar material .

Would it though? Would anyone have genuinely thought this show on netflix that was scheduled for release on this date before these fires happened is really insensitive? No. She probably wants to rerecord some of it given the awful reception to the advert.

A fly-on-the-wall documentary would work, if she was in it and not producing/directing/editing/micro-managing it.

She seems so desperate for fame and relevance that it’s almost sad to watch- who on earth would want to live like that? I can’t understand why he doesn’t just focus on the charity stuff like Invictus and she could train to do anything she wanted - they could live a quiet but very comfortable life in a lovely part of the world, raising 2 kids and having the best time. Most people would love to have that lifestyle.

They can't afford it. Their lifestyle is incredibly expensive, their security alone is millions a year. They need to make mega bucks to fund it and these types of endeavors are the only things that pay that kind of money.

They should just be themselves, their whole shtick was being authentic and honest and yet there are period rebrands where she rebrands herself and it's badly received because people can tell its not who she actually is. It's sad she evidently thinks she has to pretend to be something she isn't for people to be interested in her when that's not the case I doubt. I'm not a fan or a hater- I am neutral as I am with the royals; she does seem to get a lot of irrational ire but amongst it it's wild not to self reflect and wonder why people aren't buying into it.

https://www.standard.co.uk/comment/meghan-markle-prince-harry-california-wildfire-disaster-tourism-b1204545.html

‘As fire rages in L.A, Meghan Markle postpones her new lifestyle programme for Netflix, which was supposed to come out this week. It’s called With Love, Meghan. It is the function of royalty to play the archetype — naive, goddess, witch — and I wonder if, with the postponement, the denial of the super-rich class about its impact on the world is ebbing, because it should.
Super rich culture is a palace of denial. I mean the very rich, and sometimes philanthropic, who have much more political power than they should, and of which Donald Trump is the ultimate expression. And why not live in a palace of denial? The wealthy have a world all their own, and it surrounds us, like the magical world of Harry Potter, but less magical.

More often, it looks like a garden. This is Meghan’s preference: the trailer is filled with tiny flowers and salad leaves. She carries a basket as she wanders through a garden not her own: she borrowed it, being protective of her own, real garden, and there’s an irony for you. At one point, preposterously, she dresses as a beekeeper. At least I think it was Meghan. It could have been a minion, or stunt Meghan. “I’ve always loved taking something pretty ordinary and elevating it,” she says. But a world that is a garden is ordinary, or at least it should be. It used to be: now it is reinvented as a status symbol, and luxury good.

This is cottage core, the over-reaching aesthetic of the modern rich, and it is all denial: a modern form of Marie Antoinette syndrome, when a queen of a tottering France pretended she was a shepherdess. Even so, as the planet burns — quite literally in Los Angeles, the source of all awful aesthetic trends — it comforts people to look back with nostalgia on the once ordinary, now precious

I have never found Meghan Markle any more, or less, culpable than any other California actress for human idiocy — looking to actors for leadership is like looking to cats for leadership’

That my point though - they’re choosing to have this lifestyle that a)surely can’t be making them happy and b)they can’t afford without doing all this nonsense. Of all the possibilities open to them, they chose this route. Bonkers.