This is hilarious OP.
The American media both left and right have issued scathing reviews. Included are those in the left or liberal
1 MSNBC. Far left.
https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/rcna194818
‘The questions I’m left with at the end of each episode — after Meghan cooks, crafts, opines and flips her hair in the California sunshine — is why? Why these recipes? Why this show? Why now? Why her?It seems to be that the only answer is because she married a prince
So here we are, watching a famous woman figure out how to make candles, begrudgingly make a cake and, in a fourth-wall-breaking moment, hand the reality TV crew a cup of coffee or a blackberry she picked from her yard. (Wait? Is it her yard?)
The lesson here is that fame will get you a platform, no doubt. But a platform isn’t self-sustaining. To keep people coming back, you need something more. Meghan is not especially charismatic, not especially funny and not especially knowledgeable. She comes across as someone with more Instagram filters than common sense.’
2.San Fran Chronicle. Left/liberal
https://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/article/with-love-meghan-netflix-20206505.php
‘The show is such a transparent knockoff — er, pastiche — of other, more successful lifestyle shows by Martha Stewart and Ina Garten that it made Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex (as she’s billed in the show’s credits) look even more aloof and uncomfortable in comparison. Between the awkward dialogue, terrible music and Markle’s lack of charisma on camera, you wonder if there was anyone involved with the production who had the power to say to her, “This really isn’t your best work, Duchess.”
“I have seen hostage videos with more entertainment value,” I announced to my husband, after Markle poured store-bought pretzels into a canister and tied a bow around it.’
3.The Vox. Left
https://archive.ph/EHo2F
‘Part of the problem is that as a celebrity, Meghan has two clear antecedents: Princess Diana and Martha Stewart. Within the showcase of With Love, Meghan, she fails to invoke the spirit of either one with any particular skill.
Meghan is not Princess Diana or Martha Stewart. She’s not even Meghan Markle anymore. Yet after all those years of relentless tabloid criticism, all those media deals that never amounted to anything all that exciting, the fumbled business launches, she appears to be blocked when it comes to showing us exactly who Meghan Sussex is and why we should care about her.’
4.Rolling Stone. Liberal
https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-features/with-love-meghan-markle-review-1235290919/
‘Yup, the Duchess of Sussex is that girl: a Type A, detail-focused person who has probably gone through life being an overachiever, like Gilmore Girls protagonist Rory Gilmore, or self-described “precocious kid” Taylor Swift. (Forget Meghan Markle, she’s more Marnie Michaels.) At one point, as she carefully hand-writes a brunch menu in neat lettering embellished with tasteful loops, she recalls getting an A-minus in penmanship class. “I’ll take the minus for a little bit of character,” she says, though it feels like she still remembers the name of that teacher and where they live’
5.Vogue. Liberal
https://www.vogue.com/article/up-close-but-not-quite-personal-with-meghan-markle-with-love-meghan
’And on the whole, reviews of With Love, Meghan have been fair, if not strictly favorable. Some shrug at her basic, elder-millennial Pinterest hacks (rebagging the cult-fave TJ’s pretzels with calligraphed tags). Many seize on the unrelatability (would that I could peel my son from his PS5 to salt-bake trout!) and Meghan’s breezy farm-to-table privilege. Beekeeping, harvesting your own honey, and using said honey to make beeswax candles, for example, is an exercise “achievable only for someone who has a certain amount of money, time, or both,” Nadira Goffe wrote for Slate.’
6.Washington Post. Liberal
https://archive.ph/tXtk6
’The structure of “With Love, Meghan” makes her more often the voice of authority, though it’s often unclear what authority she has. For instance, she admits she only tried making focaccia a few weeks prior, so it feels odd to have her give a lesson. When she makes candles and doughnuts, she says it’s her first rodeo altogether. One of her coolest skills — her calligraphy — is on display in the show’s branding and with her endless label making and menu writing, but the audience never gets a lesson. Her main takeaway is that we ought to add more whimsy to our lives and especially our plates, but I think she’s really overstating how much edible flowers impact my mood (and I’m pretty into whimsy!).’
Variety. Liberal
https://variety.com/2025/tv/reviews/with-love-meghan-markle-netflix-duchess-of-sussex-1236327469/
‘That’s because “With Love, Meghan” exists as a sort of celebration of all things Duchess of Sussex — and, as with past of her media outings, no amount of praise seems enough
“With Love, Meghan” makes that answer seem further away, as its star seems unwilling to step outside the role of perpetual A student. In one episode, she bakes donuts for the chef Roy Choi, telling the camera “I need to impress this man! Not just with my donuts — with my tidiness, with my kitchen savvy, my cleanliness.” It’s unsurprising that, on presenting Choi with the treat, she says in a rushed, breathless tone, “Do you believe my little donuts? I made them for you,” but it is a little surprising that this moment was left in the cut. ‘
And the AMERICAN reviews go on and on. These are just SOME of the reviews from left/liberal media outlets. I haven’t even included those Cen/Right articles from the NYpost etc.
So there is NO PR win. It’s been mocked relentlessly by the left/liberal media outlets.
She didn’t get a second season. The 16 episodes were split into two sets of 8. These are informercials anyway….so let’s not only stop pretending it was commissioned for a second season but also let’s stop pretending this is an actual cooking show. It’s tele-shopping.