With Love, Meghan on Netflix

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Anonymous wrote:The Mindy clip was so cringe. She should not have treated her that way.

Meghan is lucky Harry is an idiot (I loved his idea of interviewing Putin to ask him why he’s a sociopath) and doesn’t realize he ruined his life.

Question: if Harry likes his life and doesn't feel it is ruined in any way, perhaps even feels his life is better now than it was before marrying Meghan even despite all the stuff with his family, than can it really even conceivably be possible for him to have ruined his life? Like even if he's an idiot and doesn't understand things the way you do, can someone actually ruin their life if they are content within it and happy with their choices?

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Anonymous wrote:Now that I am thinking about it, I bet Meghan wanted to keep that "I am Sussex now" part in because she thought it would be a way to let the world know too. She wasn't talking to just Mindy Kaling there. But she is so unself-aware she doesn't realize how off-putting and cringe it sounds in that situation.

I think you’re right. I think this is her way of signaling to the media to stop calling her Meghan markle. But Kate Middleton is still called that, despite being a working royal for a lot more than Meghan’s 1 year. If being called duchess is so important to her she shouldn’t have left the UK. It has real meaning there. Here she is a laughingstock.

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Anonymous wrote:The clip of her correcting Mindy kaling is just everything that is grating about Meghan in one clip.

“It’s Sussex now”

“It’s about sharing a name with my *kids*” - no, it’s not, it’s about status striving, and bad job acting like it’s about something else. If the royal blood had been in the markle name, you can bet she’d still go by markle and her kids would take her husbands name.

That awful sweater over the shoulder look. It’s giving 1995 country club vibes and it’s so try hard. Awful. If that was her idea, it goes to show. And if it was her stylists idea, I’m convinced her stylist hates her as much as we do.

It’s just crazy that one person can be so inauthentic and virtue signaling… and just keeps trying to make herself happen. The fact that she thinks she’s the interesting half of her marriage underscores what a narcissist she is.

I blame the editor for letting that in the final product.

agree, but I think people at the top including producer or Meghan allowed it because of the buzz

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Anonymous wrote:The Mindy clip was so cringe. She should not have treated her that way.

Meghan is lucky Harry is an idiot (I loved his idea of interviewing Putin to ask him why he’s a sociopath) and doesn’t realize he ruined his life.

Question: if Harry likes his life and doesn't feel it is ruined in any way, perhaps even feels his life is better now than it was before marrying Meghan even despite all the stuff with his family, than can it really even conceivably be possible for him to have ruined his life? Like even if he's an idiot and doesn't understand things the way you do, can someone actually ruin their life if they are content within it and happy with their choices?

That was my point. I don’t think he realizes he ruined his life because he’s an idiot. I do believe though that being away from his country is gnawing on him (he’s obsessed with security so he can keep visiting).

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Anonymous wrote:The clip of her correcting Mindy kaling is just everything that is grating about Meghan in one clip.

“It’s Sussex now”

“It’s about sharing a name with my *kids*” - no, it’s not, it’s about status striving, and bad job acting like it’s about something else. If the royal blood had been in the markle name, you can bet she’d still go by markle and her kids would take her husbands name.

That awful sweater over the shoulder look. It’s giving 1995 country club vibes and it’s so try hard. Awful. If that was her idea, it goes to show. And if it was her stylists idea, I’m convinced her stylist hates her as much as we do.

It’s just crazy that one person can be so inauthentic and virtue signaling… and just keeps trying to make herself happen. The fact that she thinks she’s the interesting half of her marriage underscores what a narcissist she is.

I blame the editor for letting that in the final product.

agree, but I think people at the top including producer or Meghan allowed it because of the buzz

They hate her. They were probably savvy enough to know how it would look and would generate more controversy around her persona, drawing more viewers. I would absolutely watch a show if she denigrates her husband’s family again (she said in the cut interview she has so much more to say about them and that she didn’t sign an NDA), but other than that she has no appeal.

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Anonymous wrote:The Mindy clip was so cringe. She should not have treated her that way.

Meghan is lucky Harry is an idiot (I loved his idea of interviewing Putin to ask him why he’s a sociopath) and doesn’t realize he ruined his life.

Question: if Harry likes his life and doesn't feel it is ruined in any way, perhaps even feels his life is better now than it was before marrying Meghan even despite all the stuff with his family, than can it really even conceivably be possible for him to have ruined his life? Like even if he's an idiot and doesn't understand things the way you do, can someone actually ruin their life if they are content within it and happy with their choices?

That was my point. I don’t think he realizes he ruined his life because he’s an idiot. I do believe though that being away from his country is gnawing on him (he’s obsessed with security so he can keep visiting).

I agree. Meghan ruined his relationship with his family, which is an awful thing to do. He can’t even visit his home country. She is such a narcissist that she did it for her own benefit but probably believes she did him a favor or that it had to be done.

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Anonymous wrote:She cuts garlic and minced it with a paring knife. She seemed afraid of bees and the popcorn. It’s just weird - she’s incredibly tentative as a cook. Maybe the edits will improve over the shows.

She chops too fast to be seen as tentative. She clearly cooks.

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Anonymous wrote:Here’s the clip of her correcting Mindy about her name.

https://youtube.com/shorts/KZlYim10t9Y?si=NROa311_HBJ-Xk_I

Ok I have not watched this show and am not a Meghan fan or anything, and actually I did not even take my DH's name, but I have zero problem with this.

It's not her name. People call her Meghan Markle all the time but it's legally not her name. She took her husband's name and since her husband belongs to this stupid family where their names are dictated by their title, they are "the Sussex family." Yes that part of it is dumb but it is still her name and it's okay to ask people to call you by your actual name and not by whatever they feel like calling you.

I used to have to correct people all the time when I got married and didn't take my husband's name. A lot of people made assumptions and wanted to call me Mrs. [his last name]. And when I'd say "nope, I'm still [my name]" I know plenty of people thought I was being annoying. But I was just letting people know what my name is so that they could call me by my actual name. Are you supposed to just ignore it when people call you the wrong name for years? I don't get what you all think she should do.

It's also annoying of Mindy to be saying her first and last name all the time and referring to Meghan in the third person there. It makes Mindy sound like she just read tabloids all the time and has no manners. That's an off-putting way of interacting with someone.

BUT, you don't do it on your own show and in the way she did, which obviously did embarass Mindy. "Funny you say that..." Is not the way to handle it. Could have been done in a different more humorous and self deprecating way.

I don't have a show so I didn't do it on one, lol.

I was not bothered by the way she bristled about it because again, I remember bristling a bit when people would use the wrong name for me when I got married. I was sensitive about it because I didn't like being assigned a name that wasn't my name. So to me, that was natural. You've never been that way with a friend? I have. Like "hey you know I didn't take my DH's name when we got married, stop calling me that." In this case it's the opposite but it's fine.

People expect women to be so smooth and tactful and unbothered at all times and it's just unrealistic. She's human. Her friend was using her old name and it annoyed her and she was like "hey why do you keep calling me Megan Markel, you know it's not my name anymore." It's not like she was incensed. She kind of smiles. But her name means something to her. Why is that okay for me but not for her?

I say this as someone who NEVER relates to Megan. I don't really think about her at all, but I like cooking/entertaining shows so came here to read reviews. But in the clip someone posted, I immediately though "yeah that's how I'd handle that too."

Yeah. No.

If your question is serious - no, most of us don’t have the experience of “bristling” at being called the wrong name, and it’s wonderful that you NEVER relate to Meghan. You don’t need to twist anything to justify her absurd clinging to that title, as captured in the credits of each show. She is not going by Meghan Sussex and instead Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, because again, she’s trying to be the only Meghan when Fox, Thee Stallion, Mullaly and McCain are also famous and somehow each more liked than Markle.

Again, it is her name. Other royals shorten their titles into last names in this way.

What do you want her to call herself. Her last name is not Markle. She wants to share a name with her husband and kids, as many women do.

She should be able to correct people on her proper name, no one should have an issue with that.

I don't think she wants to be called "Meghan Sussex", I think she wants to be called "Meghan, Duchess of Sussex." Which is going to be weird for Americans, since that's not how we do last names. Americans can't even wrap their head around Spanish surnames!

I think the more uncomfortable and tone deaf part was her saying she wanted to share a name with her kids, to show that they're a "family." Lots of kids don't share a last name with their mom. I mean, even Meghan grew up with a mom who had a different last name! Just seemed like she could've been more diplomatic or sensitive about that topic, since it might be touchy for people.

But she doesn't say that. She doesn't say "Mindy, you keep calling me Meghan Markel but you know my name is Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex!" She's just says "you know I'm Sussex now." She doesn't even say "call me Meghan Sussex." She is literally just telling her friend to stop calling her Meghan Markel because that's not her name anymore. I also think the way Mindy was saying it was annoying because she was saying it the way it would appear in a headline: Meghan Markle Goes to Jack-n-the-Box! I can understand why Meghan would be like "hey actually that's not my name and maybe let's not chat about how the tabloids refer to me?"

I don't have the same last name as my kid and I don't have a problem with what she said. I know a bunch of women who think the exact same way and have said the same to me -- I was one of only a handful of women I know who chose not to take my husband's name when we got married, and I had numerous friends who told me "I just really wanted my family to all have the same name." I disagree with this (why must a woman change her name in order for a family to share a name??) but it's really common. It doesn't offend me. And I don't think she was criticizing people who have kids with different names. She's just saying that's not what she wanted. Perhaps it bothers her that she and her mom don't share a last name, especially now that she is much closer to her mom and she has virtually no relationship with her dad. Perhaps that's part of why it was important to her.

If I call my friend by her maiden name, Jennifer Jones, and she responds, “You know I’m Smith now”, the obvious implication is that I should call my friend “Jennifer Smith” from here on.

What are we supposed to take away from this? Obviously, that she doesn’t want to be called Meghan Markle. So what are we supposed to call her?

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Anonymous wrote:The Mindy clip was so cringe. She should not have treated her that way.

Meghan is lucky Harry is an idiot (I loved his idea of interviewing Putin to ask him why he’s a sociopath) and doesn’t realize he ruined his life.

Question: if Harry likes his life and doesn't feel it is ruined in any way, perhaps even feels his life is better now than it was before marrying Meghan even despite all the stuff with his family, than can it really even conceivably be possible for him to have ruined his life? Like even if he's an idiot and doesn't understand things the way you do, can someone actually ruin their life if they are content within it and happy with their choices?

That was my point. I don’t think he realizes he ruined his life because he’s an idiot. I do believe though that being away from his country is gnawing on him (he’s obsessed with security so he can keep visiting).

I agree. Meghan ruined his relationship with his family, which is an awful thing to do. He can’t even visit his home country. She is such a narcissist that she did it for her own benefit but probably believes she did him a favor or that it had to be done.

He called their departure from his country where he was a prince, the son of the future king at the time, a “freedom flight” like the fool he is. I don’t blame her for taking advantage of him. She got a title and will have access to his inherited wealth. Good deal for her.

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It’s not filmed at her house, but are the garden scenes filmed on their property?

I understand, not filming at their house, a little more security and a little more normalcy for the kids. Even YouTube families sometimes film at a separate location that you don’t even know is not their house. At least she was upfront about it.

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Anonymous wrote:Here’s the clip of her correcting Mindy about her name.

https://youtube.com/shorts/KZlYim10t9Y?si=NROa311_HBJ-Xk_I

Ok I have not watched this show and am not a Meghan fan or anything, and actually I did not even take my DH's name, but I have zero problem with this.

It's not her name. People call her Meghan Markle all the time but it's legally not her name. She took her husband's name and since her husband belongs to this stupid family where their names are dictated by their title, they are "the Sussex family." Yes that part of it is dumb but it is still her name and it's okay to ask people to call you by your actual name and not by whatever they feel like calling you.

I used to have to correct people all the time when I got married and didn't take my husband's name. A lot of people made assumptions and wanted to call me Mrs. [his last name]. And when I'd say "nope, I'm still [my name]" I know plenty of people thought I was being annoying. But I was just letting people know what my name is so that they could call me by my actual name. Are you supposed to just ignore it when people call you the wrong name for years? I don't get what you all think she should do.

It's also annoying of Mindy to be saying her first and last name all the time and referring to Meghan in the third person there. It makes Mindy sound like she just read tabloids all the time and has no manners. That's an off-putting way of interacting with someone.

BUT, you don't do it on your own show and in the way she did, which obviously did embarass Mindy. "Funny you say that..." Is not the way to handle it. Could have been done in a different more humorous and self deprecating way.

I don't have a show so I didn't do it on one, lol.

I was not bothered by the way she bristled about it because again, I remember bristling a bit when people would use the wrong name for me when I got married. I was sensitive about it because I didn't like being assigned a name that wasn't my name. So to me, that was natural. You've never been that way with a friend? I have. Like "hey you know I didn't take my DH's name when we got married, stop calling me that." In this case it's the opposite but it's fine.

People expect women to be so smooth and tactful and unbothered at all times and it's just unrealistic. She's human. Her friend was using her old name and it annoyed her and she was like "hey why do you keep calling me Megan Markel, you know it's not my name anymore." It's not like she was incensed. She kind of smiles. But her name means something to her. Why is that okay for me but not for her?

I say this as someone who NEVER relates to Megan. I don't really think about her at all, but I like cooking/entertaining shows so came here to read reviews. But in the clip someone posted, I immediately though "yeah that's how I'd handle that too."

Yeah. No.

If your question is serious - no, most of us don’t have the experience of “bristling” at being called the wrong name, and it’s wonderful that you NEVER relate to Meghan. You don’t need to twist anything to justify her absurd clinging to that title, as captured in the credits of each show. She is not going by Meghan Sussex and instead Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, because again, she’s trying to be the only Meghan when Fox, Thee Stallion, Mullaly and McCain are also famous and somehow each more liked than Markle.

Again, it is her name. Other royals shorten their titles into last names in this way.

What do you want her to call herself. Her last name is not Markle. She wants to share a name with her husband and kids, as many women do.

She should be able to correct people on her proper name, no one should have an issue with that.

I don't think she wants to be called "Meghan Sussex", I think she wants to be called "Meghan, Duchess of Sussex." Which is going to be weird for Americans, since that's not how we do last names. Americans can't even wrap their head around Spanish surnames!

I think the more uncomfortable and tone deaf part was her saying she wanted to share a name with her kids, to show that they're a "family." Lots of kids don't share a last name with their mom. I mean, even Meghan grew up with a mom who had a different last name! Just seemed like she could've been more diplomatic or sensitive about that topic, since it might be touchy for people.

But she doesn't say that. She doesn't say "Mindy, you keep calling me Meghan Markel but you know my name is Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex!" She's just says "you know I'm Sussex now." She doesn't even say "call me Meghan Sussex." She is literally just telling her friend to stop calling her Meghan Markel because that's not her name anymore. I also think the way Mindy was saying it was annoying because she was saying it the way it would appear in a headline: Meghan Markle Goes to Jack-n-the-Box! I can understand why Meghan would be like "hey actually that's not my name and maybe let's not chat about how the tabloids refer to me?"

I don't have the same last name as my kid and I don't have a problem with what she said. I know a bunch of women who think the exact same way and have said the same to me -- I was one of only a handful of women I know who chose not to take my husband's name when we got married, and I had numerous friends who told me "I just really wanted my family to all have the same name." I disagree with this (why must a woman change her name in order for a family to share a name??) but it's really common. It doesn't offend me. And I don't think she was criticizing people who have kids with different names. She's just saying that's not what she wanted. Perhaps it bothers her that she and her mom don't share a last name, especially now that she is much closer to her mom and she has virtually no relationship with her dad. Perhaps that's part of why it was important to her.

If I call my friend by her maiden name, Jennifer Jones, and she responds, “You know I’m Smith now”, the obvious implication is that I should call my friend “Jennifer Smith” from here on.

What are we supposed to take away from this? Obviously, that she doesn’t want to be called Meghan Markle. So what are we supposed to call her?

She wants you to call her Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, or Meghan Sussex apparently. Kate Middleton never made this kind of demand even though the media still calls her Middleton.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am on ep 3

Most of my family is from California, although I am not. I would say she’s cooking very typically Californian. My in-laws could be making these recipes and this is pretty normal for them.

Not everyone, but a lot of people are like this in California.

What do you mean “like this?”

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I don’t like some of her commentary about things. It’s like someone trying to explain why a joke is funny.

“That’s where the joy comes in. Riffing / playing while cooking.” -paraphrase

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Anonymous wrote:Here’s the clip of her correcting Mindy about her name.

https://youtube.com/shorts/KZlYim10t9Y?si=NROa311_HBJ-Xk_I

Ok I have not watched this show and am not a Meghan fan or anything, and actually I did not even take my DH's name, but I have zero problem with this.

It's not her name. People call her Meghan Markle all the time but it's legally not her name. She took her husband's name and since her husband belongs to this stupid family where their names are dictated by their title, they are "the Sussex family." Yes that part of it is dumb but it is still her name and it's okay to ask people to call you by your actual name and not by whatever they feel like calling you.

I used to have to correct people all the time when I got married and didn't take my husband's name. A lot of people made assumptions and wanted to call me Mrs. [his last name]. And when I'd say "nope, I'm still [my name]" I know plenty of people thought I was being annoying. But I was just letting people know what my name is so that they could call me by my actual name. Are you supposed to just ignore it when people call you the wrong name for years? I don't get what you all think she should do.

It's also annoying of Mindy to be saying her first and last name all the time and referring to Meghan in the third person there. It makes Mindy sound like she just read tabloids all the time and has no manners. That's an off-putting way of interacting with someone.

BUT, you don't do it on your own show and in the way she did, which obviously did embarass Mindy. "Funny you say that..." Is not the way to handle it. Could have been done in a different more humorous and self deprecating way.

I don't have a show so I didn't do it on one, lol.

I was not bothered by the way she bristled about it because again, I remember bristling a bit when people would use the wrong name for me when I got married. I was sensitive about it because I didn't like being assigned a name that wasn't my name. So to me, that was natural. You've never been that way with a friend? I have. Like "hey you know I didn't take my DH's name when we got married, stop calling me that." In this case it's the opposite but it's fine.

People expect women to be so smooth and tactful and unbothered at all times and it's just unrealistic. She's human. Her friend was using her old name and it annoyed her and she was like "hey why do you keep calling me Megan Markel, you know it's not my name anymore." It's not like she was incensed. She kind of smiles. But her name means something to her. Why is that okay for me but not for her?

I say this as someone who NEVER relates to Megan. I don't really think about her at all, but I like cooking/entertaining shows so came here to read reviews. But in the clip someone posted, I immediately though "yeah that's how I'd handle that too."

Yeah. No.

If your question is serious - no, most of us don’t have the experience of “bristling” at being called the wrong name, and it’s wonderful that you NEVER relate to Meghan. You don’t need to twist anything to justify her absurd clinging to that title, as captured in the credits of each show. She is not going by Meghan Sussex and instead Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, because again, she’s trying to be the only Meghan when Fox, Thee Stallion, Mullaly and McCain are also famous and somehow each more liked than Markle.

Again, it is her name. Other royals shorten their titles into last names in this way.

What do you want her to call herself. Her last name is not Markle. She wants to share a name with her husband and kids, as many women do.

She should be able to correct people on her proper name, no one should have an issue with that.

I don't think she wants to be called "Meghan Sussex", I think she wants to be called "Meghan, Duchess of Sussex." Which is going to be weird for Americans, since that's not how we do last names. Americans can't even wrap their head around Spanish surnames!

I think the more uncomfortable and tone deaf part was her saying she wanted to share a name with her kids, to show that they're a "family." Lots of kids don't share a last name with their mom. I mean, even Meghan grew up with a mom who had a different last name! Just seemed like she could've been more diplomatic or sensitive about that topic, since it might be touchy for people.

But she doesn't say that. She doesn't say "Mindy, you keep calling me Meghan Markel but you know my name is Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex!" She's just says "you know I'm Sussex now." She doesn't even say "call me Meghan Sussex." She is literally just telling her friend to stop calling her Meghan Markel because that's not her name anymore. I also think the way Mindy was saying it was annoying because she was saying it the way it would appear in a headline: Meghan Markle Goes to Jack-n-the-Box! I can understand why Meghan would be like "hey actually that's not my name and maybe let's not chat about how the tabloids refer to me?"

I don't have the same last name as my kid and I don't have a problem with what she said. I know a bunch of women who think the exact same way and have said the same to me -- I was one of only a handful of women I know who chose not to take my husband's name when we got married, and I had numerous friends who told me "I just really wanted my family to all have the same name." I disagree with this (why must a woman change her name in order for a family to share a name??) but it's really common. It doesn't offend me. And I don't think she was criticizing people who have kids with different names. She's just saying that's not what she wanted. Perhaps it bothers her that she and her mom don't share a last name, especially now that she is much closer to her mom and she has virtually no relationship with her dad. Perhaps that's part of why it was important to her.

If I call my friend by her maiden name, Jennifer Jones, and she responds, “You know I’m Smith now”, the obvious implication is that I should call my friend “Jennifer Smith” from here on.

What are we supposed to take away from this? Obviously, that she doesn’t want to be called Meghan Markle. So what are we supposed to call her?

She wants you to call her Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, or Meghan Sussex apparently. Kate Middleton never made this kind of demand even though the media still calls her Middleton.

Yes she has lmao. She has asked to be called Catherine. It's fine for people to have preference.

[Anonymous]

I watched Martha Stewart documentary, finally, yesterday. There’s some overlap, but she presents as having more joy and love (for those who bow to her).