With Love, Meghan

I really did want to like this. I love cooking shows and getting ideas. And while there are some recipes here that are interesting and some interesting ideas, it doesn't feel real. I know others have said this, but it's the truth. It all feels so staged. But not staged for the cooking, staged to make Meghan look like an amazing kind person. I can tell you that I watched several episodes and I kept falling asleep on it lol if you're a huge fan of hers, it's light entertainment. If you're not a fan of hers? You won't enjoy it at all. If you're on the fence, it's mindless, won't hurt you to watch it, won't hurt you to miss it.

It's unfortunate that Meghan Markle's partnership with Netflix has produced such an abysmal, pretentious program under the guise of an eight-part lifestyle series. Much of the challenge comes from the contrived persona the producers are trying to formulate in presenting Meghan as a down-to-earth young wife and mother when we know she has been surrounded by royal entitlement and social privilege. That's why it's less than convincing to see her doling out culinary advice and helpful homemaking hints like a SoCal version of Fixer Upper's Joanna Gaines but on Ina Garten's inflated Hamptons-level budget, all without having the credentials of either. From the episodes I viewed, she entertains a predisposed guest, bowls the person over with her renaissance interests (beekeeping and candle-making in the first episode), culinary mastery, and disarming, one-of-us charm. It all comes across as disingenuous as if she's hawking a personal brand of her own invention.

I gave it a chance, and to be fair it's fine for some noise in the background - but overall I found it very pretentious. Showing off this life where you have time to put edible flowers on everything you make?

Still not sure what tips and tricks I was supposed to learn, cause I didn't learn anything

Fresh flowers are so expensive, so to be flaunting that in our faces to make flower presentations for visitors I felt a bit inconsiderate

Chopping fruit and veg and arranging them on a board is hardly cooking, and who has a garden with all these fresh herbs and vegetables etc

Sorry, not for me, not sure what she was trying to put across, but as I said, the word that springs to mind is pretentious!

I'd this show had been made back in the 1980's I could forgive it, the days of dinner parts, vol au vents and folded table napkins, but in 2025, it just totally misses the mark.

It's a lifeless, boring series, Meghan adds nothing, there's no sparkle, it's all so lifeless, so superficial, everything is obviously done just for the cameras.

I'm not sure who the target audience is for this, I've asked so many people, and they've all avoided it like the plague.

When you think of all the themes she could have gone with, I found this such a bizarre choice, I just don't get it. There's nothing new to learn here.

I just don't feel that she's in touch with reality, look at the clothes she's in a kitchen that most people can only dream of, is the purpose to offer money saving tips?

The project is Ill judged and poorly timed, honestly this was appalling.

1/10.

I gave this 2 stars and this is primarily for the stylist who has made things look pretty. Other than that this is the biggest waste of time. I can't work out what it's all about? Meghan is not a chef and the recipes are very basic and obvious- she taught me nothing I don't already know- we all know how to make Jam! . She clearly has no idea about Bees and looked terrified when one came near and even had a 'bee man' ( who has a bee man!!?!?!). The whole things was incredibly contrived and fake with constant faux laughing. It just feels very try hard and embarrassing and she doesn't even seem comfortable. The whole 'don't you know I'm a Sussex' was very snotty and bizarre given her determination to slag off all things Royal- yet you must refer to her as the Duchess of Sussex? It just felt uncomfortable and inauthentic and like a very long advertorial for a random collection of very basic things you can buy in any grocer.