Three Key Takeaways:
- Meghan Markle’s new Netflix show, With Love, Meghan, struggled with low viewership and negative critical reception, garnering only 526,000 households in its debut week.
- Critics and commentators argue that Meghan’s appeal is tied to her connection to the British Royal Family, and her attempt to rebrand as a lifestyle influencer has failed due to perceived inauthenticity.
- If the upcoming second season doesn’t perform better, Meghan’s Netflix career could face significant challenges.
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Meghan Markle’s new Netflix show reveals interest in her is fizzling
Meghan Markle tried to rebrand herself as a lifestyle influencer and start a new career with her Netflix reality show, With Love, Meghan.
The eight-episode series features her cooking and hosting parties with a rotating cast of celebrities.
Samba TV, a company that measures ratings for streaming services, found that Meghan’s show only had 526,000 households tune in during the first week after it debuted.
Her 2022 Netflix series Harry & Meghan, about her life with Prince Harry, had 2.1 million households watch during its debut week.
To Di For Daily podcast host Kinsey Schofield said Meghan didn’t have the appeal for a cooking show.
“The transition from Queen of Victimhood and score-settling to Betty Crocker is going to require a lot more than store-bought peanut butter pretzels,” Schofield explained.
Meghan made a bad impression on the public that she can’t escape.
“I think people have seen for themselves who Meghan Markle is, and they don’t like her,” Schofield added. “On top of the real lack of authenticity, they’ve already made up their minds about her and don’t have the patience to be convinced otherwise.”
Schofield argued the only reason that she got the public’s attention was marrying into the British Royal Family.
“Public interest in Meghan Markle will always be directly associated with her proximity to the British Royal Family,” Schofield noted. “That is why none of these new projects have worked out.”
Meghan’s new show was shredded by the critics
The critics ripped With Love, Meghan for being boring and fake.
She didn’t bring anything new or interesting to the cooking show formula.
“With Love, Meghan lacked the one thing that makes her interesting – the in-laws who refused to give her any access to them because they considered her untrustworthy,” Schofield said.
Harry and Meghan are estranged from the British Royal Family, which is the reason the public was interested in them in the first place.
The couple’s 2022 documentary Live To Lead and Harry’s Polo series last year failed to make it into the Netflix top 10.
British broadcaster Helena Chard said that Harry and Meghan aren’t interesting to Netflix viewers.
“Meghan, along with Harry, are not interesting,” Chard explained. “They are not fun, entertaining personalities. I’d go as far as to say they are bland and, as such, their shows are bland.”
Chard claimed that Harry’s passion wasn’t making shows and that shined through.
“On the other hand, Meghan loves being the center of attention,” Chard said. “[I feel] she craves the limelight. However, Meghan is disliked by many. She seems so desperate to be someone she isn’t. It’s simple – the public does not warm up to her. She grates on people’s nerves and her inauthenticity is more than cringey, it’s intolerable.”
Season 2 of With Love, Meghan comes out this fall.
If that doesn’t gain steam with audiences that could leave her Netflix career on thin ice.