With Love, Meghan on Netflix

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Anonymous wrote:For one, we don't do royal titles in the U.S. Two, didn't she flee that "racist" and "oppressive" institution and ostracized her husband? Now she scolds people to call her by a royal title? She's mentally ill.

There are so many pieces that are disjointed and confusing. So the children have the Royal titles but no real contact with their Grandfather, the King or and certainly not with their uncle the future King and cousins and most extended family. So what will it mean to these children? They are going to teach respect for their lineage when both of them abandoned theirs? It's just a mess

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Anonymous wrote:I think everyone forgets that when Gwyneth launched GOOP, it was laughed at/hated, and it took her years and years of trial and error before she found her groove/success in the wellness space. I remember her whole GOOP staff turned over at one point. I think Meghan has good instincts, and her pre-Harry Tig brand was cool, so I'm willing to follow along and see how her new brand evolves.

Gwyneth was always very successful though. Yes, people mocked her brand, but she surrounded herself with smart and competent people. She was also extremely respected as an actress. This to me is more like Blake Lively's Preserve.

This. Gwyneth had an Oscar already and the CEO of her company was the former CEO of Martha Stewart's brand.

GOOP launched in 2008. The Martha Stewart CEO came on board in 2014. The first 5 years of GOOP were very rocky (I know because I worked with them on some partnership stuff, and there was so much turnover and change of strategy). Gwyneth was an Oscar winner, but nobody had faith in her ability to run a lifestyle brand. And frankly, the whole lifestyle brand thing was pretty new in 2008. So kudos to her for persisting when no one believed in her and for becoming a leader in the lifestyle space. Is Meghan she going to persist like Gwyneth and figure it out, or give it up quickly like Blake Lively? It remains to be seen.

Has Meghan ever persisted with anything other than pursuing Harry? She seems to give up on everything she tries.

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Anonymous wrote:For one, we don't do royal titles in the U.S. Two, didn't she flee that "racist" and "oppressive" institution and ostracized her husband? Now she scolds people to call her by a royal title? She's mentally ill.

There are so many pieces that are disjointed and confusing. So the children have the Royal titles but no real contact with their Grandfather, the King or and certainly not with their uncle the future King and cousins and most extended family. So what will it mean to these children? They are going to teach respect for their lineage when both of them abandoned theirs? It's just a mess

It's purely about monetizing it. There's no ethical or familial commitment to what it means.

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Anonymous wrote:She was sort of snarky when Mindy Kaling called her "Meghan Markle" and Meghan's response was "it's funny you keep saying that because I am Sussex now."

Cringe.

It communicates that she feels above Mindy, who love her or hate her, has achieved more than almost anyone in that town (acts, produces, develops, directs, has published a couple of books, single mom to 3, has at least 1 fashion campaign as an “every woman.”) Suits was not that successful if we can tell the truth for the first time ever on this topic, and unlike Kaling, Markel did not write or direct eps of her big show, nor appear in larger films than Hallmark Channel crap, nor develop several additional series. So yeah. That’s a no.

I also think Meghan is letting the world, which includes her husbands family, know that she will relinquish her Duchess title at death and not a second sooner. And that she will never quietly divorce her bald idiot husband, ever.

That's rich, a smug, serial name-dropping, credit-stealing, and status-obsessed Brahmin getting testy about someone else asserting their status.

Mindy seemed more teasing than testy.

You must not know any Brahmins. It was certainly passive aggressive.

What a disgustingly racist statement. You're not South Asian, stop pretending that you are.

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Anonymous wrote:Eh... here are the pros, IMO: She is BEAUTIFUL, and I love her outfits, fashion choices, etc. Montecito is equally beautiful, and I love the aesthetic of the show. I really like Meghan's fashion and wish she would do something in that vein, as I think it would be more authentic.

The cons: she comes off as fake, not just because it is not her house, but she isn't a natural in the kitchen, isn't doing anything exciting entertaining wise, the interactions with her guest are sometimes awkward (with Roy Choi) and sometimes just fake (Mindy Kaling and the last name) and sometimes cringe (the fractured dish making it more beautiful, just like fractured person meghan). She also has a "spot at the table" for everyone... aside from her nuclear family/husband's nuclear family, her former best friends that she ditched, or anyone else who is not famous.

The bigger issue with this type of show is that it is sort of tone deaf to the current economic and political situation going on. It is clear this is an attempt to make their financial situation grow (when they are already rich AF), rather than coming from what she loves to do; she isn't an Ina or a Martha or a Gwenyth, and that comes through.

I don't think most people will spend $$$ on overpriced jams as the federal workforce and adjacent lose their jobs, we abandon Ukraine and other allies, and the economy tanks.

I think the issue is her jams are for some MC American women who are not very good in the kitchen and who don't care about provenance or quality. People who can afford her jam know there are much better jams out there and that celebrity products are often inferior with a mark up.

Can someone please buy the jam and tell us who it's made by?

Kirkland Signature

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Anonymous wrote:For one, we don't do royal titles in the U.S. Two, didn't she flee that "racist" and "oppressive" institution and ostracized her husband? Now she scolds people to call her by a royal title? She's mentally ill.

It must have killed her to lose the HRH

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Anonymous wrote:She was sort of snarky when Mindy Kaling called her "Meghan Markle" and Meghan's response was "it's funny you keep saying that because I am Sussex now."

Cringe.

It communicates that she feels above Mindy, who love her or hate her, has achieved more than almost anyone in that town (acts, produces, develops, directs, has published a couple of books, single mom to 3, has at least 1 fashion campaign as an “every woman.”) Suits was not that successful if we can tell the truth for the first time ever on this topic, and unlike Kaling, Markel did not write or direct eps of her big show, nor appear in larger films than Hallmark Channel crap, nor develop several additional series. So yeah. That’s a no.

I also think Meghan is letting the world, which includes her husbands family, know that she will relinquish her Duchess title at death and not a second sooner. And that she will never quietly divorce her bald idiot husband, ever.

The fact that the production staff kept in this cringey quip makes me think they hate her. This show isn't live - it could easily have been cut.

Unless Meghan wanted her audience to know that she should be addressed as such. It's probably been a thorn in her side that she is referred to by her commoner maiden name.

If you go on the Daily Mail Online (its cringey to say I do occasionally), it’s full of Kate sugars calling Meghan the most abhorrent racist, obscene names while OCD whinging that the MOL rarely calls Kate “Catherine, Princess of Wales.” This seems like a ploy to reclaim her name, any name that isn’t one of the obscene names used by the haters, and I support it.

“Kate sugars” is not a thing, the paper reflects the population they cater to there, which is supportive of the monarchy and conservative. The comments don’t have “abhorrent racist, obscene names” because they’re filtered, which is not to say well-written or pro-Meghan.

She put out a terrible snooze of a show, Netflix dumped all the episodes instead of releasing them week by week or in two parts to create excitement, and The Guardian has 2 separate truly terrible reviews of the show. She is not “reclaiming her name.” Meghan Markle Dumbarton Windsor Duch of Suss is not Angela Bassett as Tina facing off against Laurence Fishburn as Ike simply asking for “her name” in What’s Love Got To Do With It. This is not a freedom fight, or a freedom flight, it’s trying to chop things haphazardly and make jam exciting. Maybe get a grip.

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Anonymous wrote:Eh... here are the pros, IMO: She is BEAUTIFUL, and I love her outfits, fashion choices, etc. Montecito is equally beautiful, and I love the aesthetic of the show. I really like Meghan's fashion and wish she would do something in that vein, as I think it would be more authentic.

The cons: she comes off as fake, not just because it is not her house, but she isn't a natural in the kitchen, isn't doing anything exciting entertaining wise, the interactions with her guest are sometimes awkward (with Roy Choi) and sometimes just fake (Mindy Kaling and the last name) and sometimes cringe (the fractured dish making it more beautiful, just like fractured person meghan). She also has a "spot at the table" for everyone... aside from her nuclear family/husband's nuclear family, her former best friends that she ditched, or anyone else who is not famous.

The bigger issue with this type of show is that it is sort of tone deaf to the current economic and political situation going on. It is clear this is an attempt to make their financial situation grow (when they are already rich AF), rather than coming from what she loves to do; she isn't an Ina or a Martha or a Gwenyth, and that comes through.

I don't think most people will spend $$$ on overpriced jams as the federal workforce and adjacent lose their jobs, we abandon Ukraine and other allies, and the economy tanks.

I think the issue is her jams are for some MC American women who are not very good in the kitchen and who don't care about provenance or quality. People who can afford her jam know there are much better jams out there and that celebrity products are often inferior with a mark up.

Can someone please buy the jam and tell us who it's made by?

It's not available until "Spring 2025." Does anyone know the price?

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Anonymous wrote:Eh... here are the pros, IMO: She is BEAUTIFUL, and I love her outfits, fashion choices, etc. Montecito is equally beautiful, and I love the aesthetic of the show. I really like Meghan's fashion and wish she would do something in that vein, as I think it would be more authentic.

The cons: she comes off as fake, not just because it is not her house, but she isn't a natural in the kitchen, isn't doing anything exciting entertaining wise, the interactions with her guest are sometimes awkward (with Roy Choi) and sometimes just fake (Mindy Kaling and the last name) and sometimes cringe (the fractured dish making it more beautiful, just like fractured person meghan). She also has a "spot at the table" for everyone... aside from her nuclear family/husband's nuclear family, her former best friends that she ditched, or anyone else who is not famous.

The bigger issue with this type of show is that it is sort of tone deaf to the current economic and political situation going on. It is clear this is an attempt to make their financial situation grow (when they are already rich AF), rather than coming from what she loves to do; she isn't an Ina or a Martha or a Gwenyth, and that comes through.

I don't think most people will spend $$$ on overpriced jams as the federal workforce and adjacent lose their jobs, we abandon Ukraine and other allies, and the economy tanks.

I think the issue is her jams are for some MC American women who are not very good in the kitchen and who don't care about provenance or quality. People who can afford her jam know there are much better jams out there and that celebrity products are often inferior with a mark up.

Can someone please buy the jam and tell us who it's made by?

Kirkland Signature

Heh

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Anonymous wrote:Eh... here are the pros, IMO: She is BEAUTIFUL, and I love her outfits, fashion choices, etc. Montecito is equally beautiful, and I love the aesthetic of the show. I really like Meghan's fashion and wish she would do something in that vein, as I think it would be more authentic.

The cons: she comes off as fake, not just because it is not her house, but she isn't a natural in the kitchen, isn't doing anything exciting entertaining wise, the interactions with her guest are sometimes awkward (with Roy Choi) and sometimes just fake (Mindy Kaling and the last name) and sometimes cringe (the fractured dish making it more beautiful, just like fractured person meghan). She also has a "spot at the table" for everyone... aside from her nuclear family/husband's nuclear family, her former best friends that she ditched, or anyone else who is not famous.

The bigger issue with this type of show is that it is sort of tone deaf to the current economic and political situation going on. It is clear this is an attempt to make their financial situation grow (when they are already rich AF), rather than coming from what she loves to do; she isn't an Ina or a Martha or a Gwenyth, and that comes through.

I don't think most people will spend $$$ on overpriced jams as the federal workforce and adjacent lose their jobs, we abandon Ukraine and other allies, and the economy tanks.

I think the issue is her jams are for some MC American women who are not very good in the kitchen and who don't care about provenance or quality. People who can afford her jam know there are much better jams out there and that celebrity products are often inferior with a mark up.

Can someone please buy the jam and tell us who it's made by?

It's not available until "Spring 2025." Does anyone know the price?

Meghan will gladly send you some quotes! As Ever just needs your email address but please please please don’t say ataday iningmay or ask how she’s going to make any oneymay by granting you the most precious gift of all, a seat at the table.

(Her website is funny. Sorry!!)

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Anonymous wrote:I do think she cooks but she definitely seems worried about her clothes the whole time which makes her look timid. Who cooks in a cream outfit?

Shes affected but I get the impression that’s she’s probably likeable once she lets her guard down and stops trying so hard. I wish she’d be more authentic.

That's why i liked the tig. You could imagine yourself drinking wine talking to her. It was very personable

She feels like she has to live up to a lady of the manor image now, but the problem is that she wasn't born to it. So it feels inauthentic and generates little interest.

This.

The reason she always come across as inauthentic since her engagement to Prince Harry is that despite all claims to the contrary, she is deeply insecure about who she is now that she is married to a real life PRINCE! Meghan at her core is a striver. She grew up LMC in the outskirts of immense wealth, glamour and privilege in LA. And she wanted it, so very much! She LOVES glamour, money, flashy things, social climbing, success, perfection. The Tig felt authentic to her because the entire narrative of that blog was that she was an up and coming actress who is essentially the LA every girl who made it big. Her first time buying herself a Cartier watch; the Sayonara Zara party where she donated all her old cheap clothes as she could finally afford luxury labels. Her first time getting a luxury celebrity facial in London, her first time sipping expensive wine etc.

The problem is, when she married Harry she entered an entirely new realm of wealth status and privilege. She was a complete fish out of water in the stuffy, old money, aristocratic circles Harry hangs out in. And now she is cosplaying as an old money bride hosting tea parties and bee keeping like her father-in-law the King of England. She wants to be upper class, posh and princess-like. She is not that. Hence the perpetually painful fakeness.

+100.

Nailed it. And I say this as someone who loved Meghan in the beginning, disliked her during Mexit, wishes she would pick a lane on the "Duchess of Sussex" shenangians, and is giving her a second chance now.

So I'll add one more bit, given that I see a bit of myself in Meghan - she's also deeply struggling with the fact that she achieved all her dreams the old fashioned way - because of a man. She grew up believing that if she wanted something, she had to go get it herself. A man is not a plan, they say. So while she enjoys the trappings of his family's wealth, the only thing sweeter than a $25M Montecito mansion purchased with her in-laws' wealth is a $25M Montecito mansion purchased with her own money.

I can't blame her. We're not Sussex rich, but I'm totally the MC girl you describe who did well for herself, but whose financial trajectory really pivoted due to my spouse's career taking off in our 30s. Lots of family members tell me I should just quit my job and chill. It's just not how I'm wired. A man is not a plan, right?

Meghan is for sure having an identity crisis.

Both of you PPs really nailed. I didn't have any strong feelings about MM in the beginning, and thought she was pretty, fairly smart, etc. Then I saw an interview where she insisted that she had no idea who Harry was. Not that she was set up on a blind date, but that she did not know that Prince Harry was part of the British Royal Family. Give Me A &%$( Break. I don't follow them, don't care about them, but somehow I manage to know a lot about them by osmosis of sorts....seeing the cover of magazines on the newstands. In doc offices. Hearing people talk. Channel surfing and seeing 10 seconds of them on a show. Whatever. There is NO WAY a social climber like that had <insert faux giggles> no idea who he was.

It was downhill from there. She has great fashion sense and always looked good during her appearances with the Royal Family, but unlike Kate who goes between expensive couture and normal brands, she spent exorbitantly on only couture. Eh.

She stole that bit from Yoko Ono who claimed to have never heard of John Lennon when she met him. Guess it worked for both of them.

No one believed that for Yoko or Meghan except maybe their love-struck suitors.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Eh... here are the pros, IMO: She is BEAUTIFUL, and I love her outfits, fashion choices, etc. Montecito is equally beautiful, and I love the aesthetic of the show. I really like Meghan's fashion and wish she would do something in that vein, as I think it would be more authentic.

The cons: she comes off as fake, not just because it is not her house, but she isn't a natural in the kitchen, isn't doing anything exciting entertaining wise, the interactions with her guest are sometimes awkward (with Roy Choi) and sometimes just fake (Mindy Kaling and the last name) and sometimes cringe (the fractured dish making it more beautiful, just like fractured person meghan). She also has a "spot at the table" for everyone... aside from her nuclear family/husband's nuclear family, her former best friends that she ditched, or anyone else who is not famous.

The bigger issue with this type of show is that it is sort of tone deaf to the current economic and political situation going on. It is clear this is an attempt to make their financial situation grow (when they are already rich AF), rather than coming from what she loves to do; she isn't an Ina or a Martha or a Gwenyth, and that comes through.

I don't think most people will spend $$$ on overpriced jams as the federal workforce and adjacent lose their jobs, we abandon Ukraine and other allies, and the economy tanks.

I think the issue is her jams are for some MC American women who are not very good in the kitchen and who don't care about provenance or quality. People who can afford her jam know there are much better jams out there and that celebrity products are often inferior with a mark up.

Can someone please buy the jam and tell us who it's made by?

It's not available until "Spring 2025." Does anyone know the price?

Meghan will gladly send you some quotes! As Ever just needs your email address but please please please don’t say ataday iningmay or ask how she’s going to make any oneymay by granting you the most precious gift of all, a seat at the table.

(Her website is funny. Sorry!!)

Lol. This thread gets a gold star! ⭐️

[Anonymous]

It's a lifestyle show more than a cooking show that would be filmed on a set. The house has obviously been staged with things to look like someone lives there, but we all know it's not her house. So the setting feels fake and then we get basic fruit on a plate content and forced interactions with guests who barely know each other.

I can see why the reviews are savage.

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Anonymous wrote:Yikes, someone posted the clip of her correcting Mindy Kaling “you know I’m Sussex now” in her Karen voice. I was usually more pro-Meghan but that was awful.

how did this not get cut? someone please post.

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Anonymous wrote:It's a lifestyle show more than a cooking show that would be filmed on a set. The house has obviously been staged with things to look like someone lives there, but we all know it's not her house. So the setting feels fake and then we get basic fruit on a plate content and forced interactions with guests who barely know each other.

I can see why the reviews are savage.

The Youtube comments for the Netflix trailer was absolute comedy gold to read. I haven't laughed that hard in a very long time.