Meghan Markle's new Netflix show branded 'sensationally absurd'

With Love, Meghan has finally been released - but TV critics have not been kind about the show

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Meghan Markle's highly anticipated series, With Love, Meghan, has been met with a wave of negative reviews from TV critics. The lifestyle show, which was finally released on Netflix on Tuesday (March 4), features cooking, baking, gardening and other hostess activities.

Despite Meghan's aim to share her "personal tips and tricks", while "embracing playfulness over perfection" and "highlighting how to create beauty in unexpected ways", the series has not been well received.

The Independent described the show as "exhausting" and likened the crafting tasks to "one part Pinterest, one part posh Blue Peter".

Katie Rosseinsky wrote: "The heady blend of aesthetic curation, inspiring truisms and those inescapable edible flowers might well leave you feeling a bit queasy – or simply worn out at the prospect of having to adequately perform gratitude for all the thoughtful touches involved in Meghan's 'guest experience'."

Despite Meghan's aim to share her "personal tips and tricks", while "embracing playfulness over perfection" and "highlighting how to create beauty in unexpected ways", the series has not been well received. (

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The Express reports how The Daily Mail brutally stated: "It is so awful it is almost compelling and sources within Netflix hope it will prove irresistible to a 'hate-watch' audience of those who don't like Meghan."

Marina Hyde, The Guardian columnist and host of The Rest is Entertainment, has dished out a critique on Meghan Markle's new domestic pivot. Hyde remarked: "For Meghan, it's supposed to assist her transformation into domestic guru.

"If you don't mind arching an eyebrow at the lifestyle lunacies of fellow Montecito resident Gwyneth Paltrow, then at least have some consistency and give yourself a pass on this one. This show is sensationally absurd and trite, and if you watch it, you know it."

Other media outlets, however, have leaned into the appeal of the series. The Standard lavished four stars on the show, highlighting the cooking tips and guest conversations with cooks.

In her piece, Melanie McDonagh mused on the show's potential: "So, will this series fly? For laughs perhaps. But if you're the kind of person who wants to be shown how to make a daisy chain or who gets a thrill from seeing the home life of our Duchess as she wants us to see it, or who wants tips on making pasta the way no Italian ever did (sitting on veg, in a frying pan cooked with water from a kettle), why it'll be just your cup of tea."

With Love, Meghan dropped on Netflix on Tuesday (March 4) (

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Despite approaching the show with some scepticism over its claims of genre-redefining, Radio Times' Caroline Frost offered a more gracious view in her assessment.

She commented: "This isn’t the most offensive TV show in the world, and useful for those who need to know how to pour Epsom salts into a jar, pour boiling water over pasta and daisies on a plate, but Brooklyn Beckham needn’t worry about giving up his chef’s hat just yet.

"Meghan says she’s hoping to make magic out of 'elevating ordinary things'. But this ordinary? Will enough people find basic sufficiently beautiful to get the hordes buying the merchandise as is the plan?

"Time will tell. Has Meghan reimagined the genre as promised? Not so much, but I’ll keep watching."

With Love, Meghan features appearances from celebrities like Mindy Kaling, Abigail Spencer and Victoria Jackson as well as celebrity chefs Roy Choi and Alice Waters.

With Love, Meghan. (L to R) Heather Dorak, Harry, Duke of Sussex, Genevieve Hillis, Julian Zafjen, Kelly Zafjen, Meghan, Duchess of Sussex in episode 108 of With Love, Meghan (

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With Love, Meghan forms part of a lucrative deal inked with Netflix back in September 2020, where the Sussexes pledged to "develop scripted and unscripted series, film, documentaries, and children programming for the streaming service".

The series follows Harry & Meghan, which was released in 2024.

All episodes of With Love, Meghan are currently available on Netflix.

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