Meghan Markle’s Netflix lifestyle series is once again getting roasted by critics, who have dubbed the series “baffling” and “tone-deaf.”
Key Facts
“With Love, Meghan” season two released Tuesday, five months after the first season debuted on Netflix to scathing reviews from critics and viewers, earning just a 38% score on Rotten Tomatoes.
In the lifestyle and cooking series, Markle invites celebrity friends, professional chefs or other guests to a farmhouse near her home in Montecito, California, where they cook together as Markle occasionally offers revelations about her life as a royal and her relationship with Prince Harry.
In season two, Markle’s guests include Chrissy Teigen, whom Markle once worked alongside as a briefcase holder on “Deal Or No Deal,” and a brief appearance by Teigen’s husband John Legend.
Other guests who appear in the show’s second season include “Queer Eye” co-host Tan France, celebrity chefs David Chang, Samin Nosrat and Christina Tosi, and British life coach Jay Shetty.Chief Critics
In a two-star review, The Guardian critic Lucy Mangan slammed the series as “so painfully contrived that it’s genuinely fascinating.” Mangan called the series “boring,” but by the end, “you find yourself wondering things you would never normally wonder, such as, what would it take for me to embark on making vegan macaroons?” The Times of London critic Hilary Rose urged viewers to “start therapy now,” stating it “never becomes apparent why we should be interested in watching” any of Meghan’s culinary or fashion pursuits.
