Meghan Markle's With Love, Meghan globally panned by reviewers

Whether you want it or not, Netflix is going to keep giving us a lot of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. The streamer has already paid the royal couple tens of millions of dollars to produce all kinds of content. This includes a new lifestyle show called With Love, Meghan (which is a fairly terrible title), but critics and viewers alike seemingly really do not like the new series.

If you don't, and there are many who agree with you, then you are not in luck. While the show has been widely panned, there will be a second season of Markle's show coming later in 2025. Markle shared the news on social media soon after the first season was dropped on Netflix.

If you haven't watched it yet, maybe check Rotten Tomatoes because while professional reviewers have given the series a 35 (which is bad), viewers have given the show an even worse rating of 20. The best score on Metacritic is a 60 by i. The Guardian and Independent each gave the series a 20.

Meghan Markle's With Love, Meghan is gravely disliked

Chitra Ramaswamy of the Guardian wrote, in part, that the show has a "lack of humor, irony, self-awareness and apprehension of the reality of this deeply unequal and apocalyptic world that makes With Love, Meghan so unlovable in the end."

But don't just trust the critics, of course. Any series can be negatively critiqued by reviewers but loved by the general population. Such is not the case with Markle's series. 15 of the 25 reviews by general viewers had a negative reaction. A reviewer named DukeJon wrote, "Not her house. Not her garden. Not her recipes. Not her cooking. Not her friends."

Well, goodness. And that is all true, of course. The series is supposed to feature Markle being her most domestic and give the feeling that what one is seeing is a bit like how her actual life is. She invites friends over, they discuss subjects they seem interested in, and there is some cooking. However, the shows are not filmed where Markle lives. It is like a scripted show pretending to be an unscripted one.

The overall issue continues to be that Markle and Prince Harry very much want to try to prove that they are regular people. They aren't, and that is not entirely their fault. But Markle's show straining so hard to be down to earth simply underscores just how out of touch the couple appear to be.

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