‘A self-indulgent, vanity project’: The scathing reviews for season two of With Love, Meghan are in
It seems to have come across even worse than the first season
Season two of With Love, Meghan dropped on Netflix today, and as you would expect almost every single review is pretty scathing.
So, from claims the show is “boring and contrived” to saying the whole thing is merely an “ego trip” for Meghan Markle, let’s have a look at the most brutal reviews.
The Guardian
Lucy Mangan gave With Love, Meghan season two a scathing review with just two stars, slating it as: “So boring, so contrived, so effortfully whimsical that, do you know what? In the end, it does become almost fascinating.”
She continued: “She’s still sprinkling flowers over everything, by the way. I don’t know if it’s a choice or a compulsion, but if you stand still long enough in (not) Meghan’s kitchen, the chances are you will be covered in violets and served alongside a mug of grey foam to a nano-celebrity who is beginning to realise he has not been paid enough.”
The Times
Hilary Rose from The Times stated that the series if “baffling” and comes across as an “ego trip” for Meghan.
She wrote: “It was the bookbinding that finished me off. No, wait. Maybe it was the moment when Meghan wrapped a wooden box in a sarong, stuck a flower on top and stood back for applause.
“Mainly, though, it was the bookbinding, a TV programme about watching glue dry. It went downhill from there.”
She added: “With Love, Meghan is baffling. It occupies the sweet spot where irrelevant meets intolerable.
“It’s like an advert for somewhere we’ll never go and aren’t invited, an ego trip in a sun hat that boils down to this: Meghan is pretty and likes roast chicken and flower arranging. That’s an entry for Miss World, not a concept for ten hours of TV.’
The Express
I was not a fan of the first series and tuned in with trepidation to season two hoping at the very least Meghan had taken all the (very valid) criticism on board and made adjustments.
Sadly, the Duchess of Delusion seems to have decided she has a tried and tested formula, so if it ain’t broken don’t fix it. As a result we get more visits from her celebrity friends as she cooks questionable dishes and forces them to do arts and crafts with her as if they are a 12-year-old in summer camp.
If you thought her interactions on the first series were sycophantic then brace yourself – she has taken her faux flatter and cringe chatter to the next level. She gushes over her guests, desperately waiting on them to reciprocate so she can pretend to be modest and surprised by their remarks.
The Telegraph
Anita Singh also didn’t hold back when giver her review of With Love, Meghan season two, comparing her to a “Montecito Marie Antoinette.”
She writes: “The series is marginally less mad than the first – who can forget Meghan throwing a children’s party but not inviting any children? – but more needy.
“Like a Montecito Marie Antoinette, she emerges from her house to find that the production team has created an “impromptu flower mart” worth thousands of dollars from which she can pick some blooms to arrange.
“It’s a gorgeous existence. Just occasionally, though, reality breaks through. At one point, she opens a kitchen drawer and panics. “Oh, that’s not pretty. That’s not in the shot,” she warns the director, and quickly slams it shut.
“What’s in there – a mess? A voodoo doll of the Princess of Wales? We will never know. The closing credits play out to the lyrics “don’t let it be the last time”. Please, let it be the last time.”
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