The brutal reviews Meghan Markle’s Netflix show is getting in the UK: “so awful it is almost compelling”

‘With Love, Meghan’ was released via Netflix on March 4 and explores lifestyle insights and tips from the Duchess of Sussex.

“Executive produced by Meghan, ‘With Love, Meghan’ combines practical advice and heartfelt conversations with friends, new and old. Meghan shares personal tips and tricks, prioritizing fun over perfection, and highlights how easy it can be to create beauty, even in the unexpected. She and her guests get hands-on in the kitchen, garden and beyond — and invite you to do the same,” Netflix claimed in their press release to accompany the launch.

However, the reception of the series has not been well received with a plenty of negative reviews from the media and general public.

Eric Schiffer, president of Reputation Management Consultants, shared his thoughts with Newsweek on ‘With Love, Meghan’: “The show is not a recipe for rebuilding her reputation; in fact, it reinforces her as the duchess of failures and ratings disasters. I don’t think this will help her recover or expand her audience in any meaningful way.”

“That she thinks she’s somehow going to reinvent herself as a modern-day Martha Stewart is a cry of ‘elite desperation out of touch with reality,’” the expert added, adding that he believes Markle should return to the charity work she was doing at the beginning.

On the aggregation platform Metacritic, ‘With Love, Meghan’ scores 37/100 with less than glowing reviews from the likes of The Times, The Telegraph, TIME, The Hollywood Reporter, The Guardian and Variety.

“It is the lack of humour, irony, self-awareness and grasp of the reality of this deeply unequal and apocalyptic world that makes With Love, Meghan so unkind in the end,” wrote Chitra Ramaswamy for The Guardian.

Apart from the “toe-curling” one-star review in The Guardian, the Netflix production was written off as “smug, syrupy and endlessly spoofable” in the Times and denounced as “an exercise in narcissism” in the Telegraph.

Daniel D’Addario in Variety stated: “There is not enough material to justify the show’s length or its star’s belief that we will continue to watch it. The show plays out like a forced march, with Meghan’s guests required, as the price of sharing an afternoon with her in a made-for-TV kitchen, to praise her first.”

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