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With Love, Meghan on Netflix
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Anonymous
Why in the world would anyone need a two part summary of a cooking show? But I clicked through and it looks like that creator just makes anti MM videos so I guess I shouldn’t be surprised. The show is still in the top ten this weekend. That’s a lot of cumulative eyeballs. |
Anonymous
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I put it on while doing art yesterday and was pleasantly surprised.
It is chill with emphasis on creating good food and experiences for people you love. I might even try some modest version of the suggestions for creating personalized gifts for guests to let them know I value them. |
Anonymous
I can't believe I know this, but, when asked in interviews, Catherine has mentioned that she and Charlotte like spicy food. Catherine will make food and hold the spice until the very end so she can divide it up. Evidently William doesn't like spice as much. |
Anonymous
lol. Hustling for a Netflix reality TV show to pay their mortgage. It’s so, so low. |
Anonymous
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For all the millions (100?) of dollars Netflix threw at Meghan and Harry, why didn't they hire someone to advise on branding?
There is: Meghan Markle Meghan Sussex Meghan, Duchess of Sussex American Riviera Orchard With Love, Meghan As Ever And jam that was announced a year ago, but never appeared for sale, and still isn't available. Except now she clarifies it's actually "spread", not jam, because jam has to have equal fruit and sugar. If you're going to have a website asever.com to sell expensive jams (well spreads), teas and flower sprinkles, shouldn't it be live and running right now while there is peak attention and articles about the show? All there is are photos. No prices, no ability to order, just "Coming Spring 2025". Horrible, horrible marketing planning. |
Anonymous
Lol, what do you do to pay the bills? Or are you landed gentry? |
Anonymous
| They probably have enough money to pay the bills without working - if they had not chosen to live in a VHCOL area in a huge mansion. They could easily have selected a less expensive home in a less expensive area and never worked again. |
Anonymous
They aren’t getting anywhere near 100 million for this crap. Those make believe fake numbers are “leaked” by Megan. |
Anonymous
It isn't a cooking show. There is very little cooking happening, other than a couple guest chefs. It is about hosting and making gifts and treats and Meghan showing her lifestyle and how she lives her life. She shows you how to blow up a balloon, put fruit on a tray in a shape, put little shovels in bags for kids, put water and tea in a jar, etc, And she is trying to erase her father as apparently now she wants the world to believe she was raised in poverty by her mother. Except she previously detailed her quite UMC life with her father and documented her mother's absence during long parts of her childhood. She is so much like Hilaria Baldwin. Kind of funny they both got TV shows at the same time. They should become friends but would probably see each other as competition. |
Anonymous
| Didn't she present herself as a feminist? This is some retrograde domestic goddess nonsense. Just silly. |
Anonymous
Hilaria’s show isn’t in the Max top ten tho - too bad for her. |
Anonymous
I am fine with it from a feminist standpoint until she used a passive aggressive baby voice to correct Mindy Kaling about her last name. I can't believe nobody else has commented on the tone. It's how Paris Hilton used to talk in her 20s. |
Anonymous
It’s sort of amazing to me that people don’t see and hear the fake fake fake in Meghan’s public-facing personality. She seemed very tense and mad correcting Mindy, with a brittle tone mixed with the syrupy voice she can’t pull off. She speaks as if she’s dissolving into joyous tee-hees! behind a hand cupped over her mouth to block the gentle, sweet moment of laughter….at every sentence. It’s just bizarre. Who doesn’t see that? |
Anonymous
This describes a lot of people who post on DCUM, though. The financial forum is filled with people who are like "we are just scraping by on 400k a year, btw we live in a 5 bedroom new build in Bethesda and send our kids to private schools but anything else is unacceptable, oh no pity us." Like this is the DCUM brand. And the thing is, it doesn't appear Meghan made this show under duress or something. You can tell she likes doing this stuff and wanted to make a show that she thought people would like. I do think she's kind of pretentious and she certainly enjoys the royal title and pretention, but this doesn't feel like someone desperately hustling for money to afford their lavish lifestyle. It feels like she genuinely wants to create a lifestyle brand and actually feels passionate about stuff like making farm-fresh preserves and setting a table in a pretty way. And there is a market for that, and she's clearly targeting that market. She comes off like an ambitious business person who is working to create a product that is successful, which is extremely American and usually very lauded in our culture. So it's weird to me how many people are mad about it, regardless of whether this show or her brand are for you, when she's no different from your average Shark Tank contestant, just better resourced and connected because she was already a successful actor and then married a British prince. Shrug. She doesn't seem to resent having to work -- she appears to enjoy it. |
Anonymous
| There’s an essential and inescapable hypocrisy in insisting on titles in a country with founding documents disdaining titles. That is amplified when she “fled” the country granting her the title. It’s completely ridiculous and paragraphs of rationalizations don’t cure the issue. |