I) ‘With Love, Meghan’ Is a Montecito Ego Trip Not Worth Taking: TV Review (Variety)

https://variety.com/2025/tv/reviews/with-love-meghan-markle-netflix-duchess-of-sussex-1236327469/

2) Meghan Markle’s ‘With Love, Meghan’ Roasted By Critics—The Royal Couple’s Latest Media Venture Struggle (Forbes)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/conormurray/2025/03/04/meghan-markles-with-love-meghan-roasted-by-critics-the-royal-couples-latest-media-venture-struggle/

3) In With Love, Meghan, Meghan Markle Goes Full Lifestyle Guru (Vogue)

https://www.vogue.com/article/meghan-markle-with-love-meghan-review

4) Meghan Markle Shines in With Love, Meghan When She’s the Student (Town and Country)

https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/tradition/a64019668/meghan-markle-with-love-meghan-review/

5) With Love, Meghan, review: this hostess with the mostest act must be exhausting (The telegraph)

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/0/with-love-meghan-netflix-review-duchess-duke-sussex/

6) With Love, Meghan review – toe-curlingly unlovable TV (The Guardian)

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/mar/04/with-love-meghan-review-netflix

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  4. Almost all of the reviews from British media are bad (as expected) . Reviews from Independent , Irish Times and Spectator ones are quite scathing I am not attaching them here. For real Telegraph is seriously obsessed with MM seems like every one of their writer has something to say about the show 😆 so not attaching them either.

    I am waiting for The Hollywood Reporter to publish , it would be more reliable . Will update when it’s published

  11. https://www.thestar.com/life/meghan-markles-new-intimate-interview-is-part-of-her-make-or-break-show-promo/article_82c20e7d-516a-5dab-92df-76cdbaa86484.html

    Adding this one – it’s not directly about the show, but it’s from a writer who has been pro-M&H in the past talking about the promotion, and how it clearly has shifted from the originally expected January launch. Hope I’m not getting too off-topic on the thread, just thought this was interesting but didn’t deserve its own thread.

  12. “Then, in his one appearance on the series, Prince Harry, Meghan’s husband calls out a toast. “To you!” he shouts. To Meghan, indeed. “With Love, Meghan” is made with a great deal of love — in the sense that the greatest love of all is the one that a person has for herself”

    BRUTAL

  13. Prefacing this by saying I have no real opinion on Meghan, whether positive or negative. I’m neutral. Out of interest I watched 1.5 episodes last night before I had to fall into bed (am in Australia so they dropped quite late, I think). OMG it’s bad. But not so bad that you can hate watch it and enjoy yourself. Just… bad. I don’t mind the beautiful if unrealistic setting, and the pasta/cake/candles business. However the humans involved are just…flat, unnatural and stilted. The visibly forced spontaneous anecdotes and shared memories . She doesn’t come across as casual and genuine , she comes across as neurotically trying hard. I’ll pass on the rest of the series thanks. Maybe I’m just not the target demographic!

  14. Ty for compiling the reviews in one place so we don’t have a million different posts/threads!

    This is roughly what I expected the reception to be. She wasn’t bringing thing anything new or special to the genre so rave reviews were unlikely.

  15. The Australian:- “Meghan’s new Netflix show drips with saccharine inanities”

    “Meghan Markle simpers and and gushes and doesn’t keep quiet in her new Netflix show, With Love, Meghan. You have been warned, this is truly dreadful.”

    (I’d stick a link in but you need to subscribe to access the article)

  19. I caught 3 episodes last night and it was cute, presented exactly as marketed. It didn’t really stand out to me though amoung similar shows like this so far. I’m not in a rush, but I’ll catch the rest of the episodes soon and see if there’s anything new to me in them and my brain doesn’t like me starting shows and not finishing them 🙂

  20. I tried to watch it but couldn’t even finish the first episode, I found it very boring but then again I also found similar shows boring so not exactly a surprise, if you’ve watched a show with a celebrity cooking and giving you lifestyle tips then you’ve seen this, there’s nothing fresh or groundbreaking, I’m sure some people would like it but I’m not the target audience I guess.

  21. I made it thru 6:28 minutes and had to turn it off.

  22. I love the aesthetics of the show, the background, the food is all prepped nicely and there was some cool things I learned. The conversations I found really grating, like they were a little forced and all over the place and I think took away and distracted from what was being made. Maybe they could have kept conversation for the end part when they are enjoying the food in all these scenic locations, so we could enjoy more of it. I’m 2 and a half episodes in and had to stop just because the conversation was annoying me and I couldn’t keep up. But it’s a cute show to watch curled up with a nice drink

  23. No fan of her but let’s give her the chance to take feedback and improve. I think she can and will do a better job next season.

  24. “There has to be something remarkable, besides her jam-making skills, about a woman with the strength of will to extricate herself, her children, and a husband who’d spent his whole life within the institution from the notoriously controlling British royal family. (Wallis Simpson was certainly one of a kind.) And yet, now that they’ve escaped the Firm, it’s as though the Sussexes have constructed an equally rigid propaganda machine to serve their purposes rather than those of the Crown. With Love, Meghan is a dusting of flower sprinkles that can’t hide the blandness of the cookie—a polite but distant dispatch from a rented kitchen down the road in lieu of truly welcoming us into her life. “

    -Judy Berman of time magazine. There is a demographic out there that hates the idea of Meghan living happily without dredging up her traumatic experiences for people to feed on and further criticize her for. There’s literally a whole show about how she got the strength to leave on Netflix, Judy.

    I swear any kind of integrity goes out the window and it’s time to revert back to middle school mean girl jealousy for so many critics. What is this nonsense my god 

  26. I’m two episodes deep and I like it so far. It’s mindless and visually lovely, and honestly it’s a nice escapism show. The injected conversations about deeper topics so far have been forced and unnatural, but I can overlook those and enjoy the cooking and setting. It’s not very memorable, and I doubt I’ll remember much about it in a few weeks once I’ve watched everything, but it’s a nice background accompaniment to my couch rot moments at the end of a long day.

  27. I’m on episode 3. It’s like a Pinterest board but in a TV show format. It’s good for an escape. I liked Episode 2. The rainbow fruit platter was a great tip for me and the balloon arch. It looks so intimidating but seeing her how she does it as a mom (not as the voice of an expert) is great for reassurance. This series is a good must watch for stans and for people who want to know her.

  28. Wow, that review has an incredibly catty, nasty tone. Did Meghan kill her puppy or something??

    I’ve watched 1.5 episodes. It’s actually better and more engaging than I expected. I’m not a HGTV/Martha Stewart type of TV viewer but some of her stuff actually kind of interesting and makes me want to try it.

    The lemon cake looked yummy and actually fairly simple to make with kinda a spectacular outcome. The balloon arch looked like fun. The ladybug treats were so cute. (The bath salts are a hard NO. I’m sensitive to scents, and that would be a nightmare but I’m quite aware, that many people love this sort of thing.)

    Her enthusiasm is kinda infectious.

  29. I just watched the first episode. I liked it? it’s bright, it’s pretty, it’s escapist. It’s a little parasocial. It’s a little awkward that it’s not at her home, but I like that she was upfront about that from the very beginning. I’m not a Meghan fan but I can actually see her charm in this. The cringy, unrelatable moments (for example the repackaging of the peanut butter pretzels – why?) are still there but here it just comes off as … I don’t know … trying too hard quirks? That honey scraping bit has got be turned into an ASMR video at some point, so satisfying to watch.

    I’ll probably watch the entire series and not think too hard about anything to be honest.

    ETA: there needs to be a website linking to her clothes and stuff, because some of that stuff is niiiiice.

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