With Love, Meghan on Netflix

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Anonymous wrote:19 pages on a Netflix show that aired yesterday, totally normal.

I haven’t watched it yet but I will watch at least a couple episodes eventually! I wouldn’t consider myself a fan of hers, but I think it’s absolutely crazy that she gets so much hate. Just let the lady make a fruit rainbow, it’s really not that big of a deal.

this. Literally 19 pages of b itching that she used a paring knife to chop garlic.

Clearly, Meghan Markle provokes a response. You dont seem to understand that other people’s opinions are as valid as your own. If she doesn’t want criticism, she’s in the wrong business.

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With Love, Meghan was filmed at a luxurious farmhouse just a few miles from the Sussexes' Montecito, California, mansion. The four-bedroom, 4.5-bathroom farmhouse is owned by local philanthropists Tom and Sherrie Cipolla, who bought it for $4.7 million in 2017, according to Realtor.com

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Meghan revealed that she decided to film With Love, Meghan in a nearby rental to protect her family. She and Prince Harry are parents to two children: 5-year-old Archie Harrison and 3-year-old Lilibet Diana.

“I wanted to protect that safe haven,” she told People in an exclusive interview. “We’re a close-knit family, and I love those moments — putting Lili down for a nap, having lunch together, having sacred time together at the end of the day."

She continued, "Our kitchen is where Mama just cooks for the family, and with a crew of 80-plus people, that’s a lot of people to have in your house!”

While the series’ interior scenes were filmed in the farmhouse, a few scenes showcase the exterior of her Montecito house, including the backyard, chicken coop, and orchard.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:19 pages on a Netflix show that aired yesterday, totally normal.

I haven’t watched it yet but I will watch at least a couple episodes eventually! I wouldn’t consider myself a fan of hers, but I think it’s absolutely crazy that she gets so much hate. Just let the lady make a fruit rainbow, it’s really not that big of a deal.

this. Literally 19 pages of b itching that she used a paring knife to chop garlic.

You can’t cook either? Please don’t be such a snitch to those of us who can.

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Anonymous wrote:Meghan revealed that she decided to film With Love, Meghan in a nearby rental to protect her family. She and Prince Harry are parents to two children: 5-year-old Archie Harrison and 3-year-old Lilibet Diana.

“I wanted to protect that safe haven,” she told People in an exclusive interview. “We’re a close-knit family, and I love those moments — putting Lili down for a nap, having lunch together, having sacred time together at the end of the day."

She continued, "Our kitchen is where Mama just cooks for the family, and with a crew of 80-plus people, that’s a lot of people to have in your house!”

While the series’ interior scenes were filmed in the farmhouse, a few scenes showcase the exterior of her Montecito house, including the backyard, chicken coop, and orchard.

Who talks like that about their nuclear family with kids 5 and under? “We’re a close knit family!” It’s strange, tense, and unnatural.

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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.

Lord, you’d probably get along well with her. You sound like a lot of work.

NP but you sound really closed-minded and your gratuitous negativity is just bad vibes all around.

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Anonymous wrote:Meghan revealed that she decided to film With Love, Meghan in a nearby rental to protect her family. She and Prince Harry are parents to two children: 5-year-old Archie Harrison and 3-year-old Lilibet Diana.

“I wanted to protect that safe haven,” she told People in an exclusive interview. “We’re a close-knit family, and I love those moments — putting Lili down for a nap, having lunch together, having sacred time together at the end of the day."

She continued, "Our kitchen is where Mama just cooks for the family, and with a crew of 80-plus people, that’s a lot of people to have in your house!”

While the series’ interior scenes were filmed in the farmhouse, a few scenes showcase the exterior of her Montecito house, including the backyard, chicken coop, and orchard.

God, she is so sanctimonious. In one breath she is always bemoaning how the world is out to invade their privacy and “safe haven” and in the next, she’s begging the world for their validation and views via her constant “lifestyle” crap on Instagram and Netflix. Yet another reason why she is insufferable.

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Anonymous wrote:Meghan revealed that she decided to film With Love, Meghan in a nearby rental to protect her family. She and Prince Harry are parents to two children: 5-year-old Archie Harrison and 3-year-old Lilibet Diana.

“I wanted to protect that safe haven,” she told People in an exclusive interview. “We’re a close-knit family, and I love those moments — putting Lili down for a nap, having lunch together, having sacred time together at the end of the day."

She continued, "Our kitchen is where Mama just cooks for the family, and with a crew of 80-plus people, that’s a lot of people to have in your house!”

While the series’ interior scenes were filmed in the farmhouse, a few scenes showcase the exterior of her Montecito house, including the backyard, chicken coop, and orchard.

Who talks like that about their nuclear family with kids 5 and under? “We’re a close knit family!” It’s strange, tense, and unnatural.

Yeah seriously.

It's especially glaring bc that term is usually used for broader family (sill bring close to your parents, adult siblings, cousins etc). To me it just goes to how affected she is and how unique she believes herself to be.

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Anonymous wrote:The problem with a lifestyle show for Meghan markle is that nobody cares about Meghan markles lifestyle. She is not the intriguing part of the couple. If Harry did a lifestyle show, I’d watch. His background and life story is far more interesting. I don’t find Meghan interesting or aspire to be her, and she’s not appealing in that way. She just seems like someone who thinks she’s an it girl because she married into the royal family - but she’s not - and it’s cringe.

Meghan should go back to acting where she can work instead of trying to force herself down people’s throats as a “lifestyle.” She lacks all subtlety and intrigue.

100% this. I bet that Netflix and everyone else that invested in this couple was hoping for more Harry content because he is by far the more interesting of the two, but they got stuck with Meg trying to control the narrative and make things about her.

Good point. People would have liked to see them both and some moments with the children and at home.

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In real life her Dad was the Camera man on the Show "Married with Children" and as a kid she hung out on the set and knew the stars of the show.

Sounds like a fun childhood to me. And not much of a leap to being on TV growing up in LA and your Dad.

That show had Ed Oneil as star one of the biggest actors in TV land and had celeb guest stars all the time. Some of them are below.

She had more fund than I ever had as a kid

Sugar Ray Leonard , Ed "too tall" Jones, Hacksaw Reynolds, Lawrence Taylor, Joe Morgan, Bo Jackson, Johnny Bench, Dave Winfield, Mike Piazza, Larry Brown, Roy Jones Jr, Steve Carlton, Ernie Banks, Frank Thomas, Danny Tartabull, Bret Saberhagen, Danny Bonaduche,Todd Christianson, David Boreneaz, Milla Jovovich,

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Anonymous wrote:Meghan revealed that she decided to film With Love, Meghan in a nearby rental to protect her family. She and Prince Harry are parents to two children: 5-year-old Archie Harrison and 3-year-old Lilibet Diana.

“I wanted to protect that safe haven,” she told People in an exclusive interview. “We’re a close-knit family, and I love those moments — putting Lili down for a nap, having lunch together, having sacred time together at the end of the day."

She continued, "Our kitchen is where Mama just cooks for the family, and with a crew of 80-plus people, that’s a lot of people to have in your house!”

While the series’ interior scenes were filmed in the farmhouse, a few scenes showcase the exterior of her Montecito house, including the backyard, chicken coop, and orchard.

Who talks like that about their nuclear family with kids 5 and under? “We’re a close knit family!” It’s strange, tense, and unnatural.

I think she’s trying as carefully as possible to acknowledge that her privilege allows her that slower pace of life, and kind of defending that choice a little bit. The examples she gives (eating lunch together, being the one to put baby down for a nap) are not available to a dual-income family with parents who travel all the time for work and outsource the majority of their childcare (and remember, her foil here is similarly privileged people making a different choice). But no matter what she does, doesn’t do, says, doesn’t say, she’ll get hate.

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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.

Agree. It would have been much more natural and had the same impact of making people aware of her name if they had just done a take where Mindy was calling her Megan Sussex.

I wish Mindy had then said," So you would prefer people call you Megan Sussex?"

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Anonymous wrote:Meghan revealed that she decided to film With Love, Meghan in a nearby rental to protect her family. She and Prince Harry are parents to two children: 5-year-old Archie Harrison and 3-year-old Lilibet Diana.

“I wanted to protect that safe haven,” she told People in an exclusive interview. “We’re a close-knit family, and I love those moments — putting Lili down for a nap, having lunch together, having sacred time together at the end of the day."

She continued, "Our kitchen is where Mama just cooks for the family, and with a crew of 80-plus people, that’s a lot of people to have in your house!”

While the series’ interior scenes were filmed in the farmhouse, a few scenes showcase the exterior of her Montecito house, including the backyard, chicken coop, and orchard.

Who talks like that about their nuclear family with kids 5 and under? “We’re a close knit family!” It’s strange, tense, and unnatural.

I think she’s trying as carefully as possible to acknowledge that her privilege allows her that slower pace of life, and kind of defending that choice a little bit. The examples she gives (eating lunch together, being the one to put baby down for a nap) are not available to a dual-income family with parents who travel all the time for work and outsource the majority of their childcare (and remember, her foil here is similarly privileged people making a different choice). But no matter what she does, doesn’t do, says, doesn’t say, she’ll get hate.

Insane take.

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Anonymous wrote:Meghan revealed that she decided to film With Love, Meghan in a nearby rental to protect her family. She and Prince Harry are parents to two children: 5-year-old Archie Harrison and 3-year-old Lilibet Diana.

“I wanted to protect that safe haven,” she told People in an exclusive interview. “We’re a close-knit family, and I love those moments — putting Lili down for a nap, having lunch together, having sacred time together at the end of the day."

She continued, "Our kitchen is where Mama just cooks for the family, and with a crew of 80-plus people, that’s a lot of people to have in your house!”

While the series’ interior scenes were filmed in the farmhouse, a few scenes showcase the exterior of her Montecito house, including the backyard, chicken coop, and orchard.

Who talks like that about their nuclear family with kids 5 and under? “We’re a close knit family!” It’s strange, tense, and unnatural.

Yeah seriously.

It's especially glaring bc that term is usually used for broader family (sill bring close to your parents, adult siblings, cousins etc). To me it just goes to how affected she is and how unique she believes herself to be.

+1. And she ignores the fact that she and Harry represent the Duchy of Sussex and that his grandmother bestowed the title on them. It's not like they came up with that name for their little family of four.

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I had zero interest in this show before, but all the haters on this thread are making me interested in the peaceful escapism on view here.

Also remember early GOOP recipes, like vegenaise+lemon “aioli”? And Pippa Middletons celebrations book? The public thought they were mocking individuals for their foolishness, but this is just how a certain slice of society lives. It’s especially pronounced bc millennials are all about simplifying, whereas a lot of privileged older white ladies bought into Martha Stewart’s ridiculous elaborateness as the height of aspiration back in the day so it’s not computing. I’d be really surprised if many of the women saying the show isn’t offering anything special, actually live this beautifully IRL. You have to prioritize aesthetics in your home life to have this kind of look and lifestyle.