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What’s up with the Harry and Meghan Netflix docu series?
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Anonymous
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Say what you want about Meghan and Harry (and people surely do have some strong opinions!) but she lost me when she told the story about someone at the Lion King premier telling her that South Africans danced in the street like they did when Nelson Mandela was freed when Meghan and Harry got married. I really laughed out loud on that one. She had to have known how that sounded.
Also... their foundation's website. As someone who works in this realm, I've truly never seen a foundation with a website like this - This is the picture you choose to put on your website for Advocating for Equitable and Affordable Access to Childcare (https://archewell.com/news/advocating-equitable-affordable-access-to-childcare/)? This is what you choose for Celebrating the Power of Women (https://archewell.com/news/celebrating-the-power-of-women/)? This one for Investing in Women (https://archewell.com/news/ving-project-grant-1-million-women-in-need/)? The fact of the matter is that when you're putting together the face of your foundation, choosing to focus it on photoshoots of yourself rather than focusing on other people is just bizarre. |
Anonymous
I think you can have reservations about the "firm" but not necessarily the family... right? Or are those two interchangeable. |
Anonymous
Genuine question, do you think Meghan is the one who chooses these pictures? I'm genuinely asking because I don't know myself. And to the website's credit, there are a lot of those same articles that don't feature either of the couple at all. https://archewell.com/news/scottys-little-soldiers/ https://archewell.com/news/archewell-foundation-and-harvards-berkman-klein-center-for-internet-society-are-investing-in-our-digital-future/ https://archewell.com/news/relief-for-flooding-in-nigeria/ https://archewell.com/news/supporting-families-forced-to-flee-afghanistan/ https://archewell.com/news/archewell-foundation-kaboom-community-project-uvalde/ https://archewell.com/news/world-mental-health-day/ I guess it stands to reason that for a news site about them, it would make sense that they'd show up in some pictures. |
Anonymous
They're the head of the organization, the buck stops with them. I'm not saying it's a huge moral flaw, it's just WEIRD. It doesn't really matter (to me) what the other photos contain because the ones that I linked are bizarre in and of themselves. It just doesn't make a good impression. |
Anonymous
I meant to also include that I don't think it's weird that they/she are in the pictures. Of course I agree that their foundation's website that explains the work they are doing should include photos of them. It's the type of photos - these magazine photoshoots - that I think are weird and inappropriate. YMMV. |
Anonymous
Sure, that's reasonable. I'm predisposed to defending Meghan because the criticism/defamation/rumor-mongering/outright lies/vitriol/hatred that she and her husband get on a perpetual basis is so wildly disproportionate to her behavior and her faux pas. Full stop. It's basic schoolgirl bullying. I'm reminded of the Facebook group that Lady Gaga's peers made ridiculing her for thinking she'd be famous one day. |
Anonymous
Sure, I can agree with that. As someone who lived in the UK, people sometimes think that Americans and British people are very similar because of our shared language but that's not the case. The culture, and especially the culture of the institution of the monarchy, is so different. She must have been completely out of her element and it is my belief that Harry did not prepare her enough. I find things they do distasteful but at the end of the day none of this is that deep. |
Anonymous
I am not an expert on podcasts and how to rate their performance, but I would guess the "tanking" criticism comes from a combo of tons of money spent and lots of production staff (plus star power of course) and they are still not at the top of the charts. Like those big blockbuster movies that cost $100 million to produce and have an all star cast and are expected to blow up the box office....and then they tank. |
Anonymous
Exactly. |
Anonymous
The one with Constance Wu was fascinating. |
( Spotify is trying to double down with Oprah’s production company to generate more content from them. No one who isn’t a shallow sugar (the widely used term for the sycophants that support Meghan Markle) actually listens to this and enjoys it. It’s drivel and quite terrible.
Anonymous
OK but, of course Spotify is going to promote their own podcasts. |
Anonymous
| I feel like if Kate and William were more accomplished and charismatic there would be nowhere near as much hate on the Sussexes. It seems like a lot of the criticism is really aimed at the perception that they are trying to draw attention to themselves at the expense of the rest of the BRF. But the Tindalls also do the same thing but are just sort of uninteresting meatheads so it kind of slides by unnoticed. |
Anonymous
+1 clearly they have a vision fot their foundation and it's fair to assume the overall website feel resonates with what they are going for. And hence people draw the conclusion that they are mostly interested in promoting themselves. |
Anonymous
| Right. Mike Tindall literally is on a reality tv show. Can you imagine if Meghan had done the same? |
Anonymous
...Doesn't everyone in the Royal Family promote themselves? |