I’m not interested in reading the reviews but it does not surprise me that they are hateful.
My thoughts are that British print media is ridiculous and hysterical about Meghan. The response from other countries isn’t overwhelmingly positive either, but it doesn’t have these weird personal attacks laced throughout them. Camilla Tominey’s half-a-decade long personal hate boner for Meghan is a form of publicized mental illness.
I don’t think they know what “slated” means lol
Anyway, I tried to watch the show and it was so boring to me. I don’t dislike Meghan, but I also can’t relate to her relentless performative domesticity.
there’s no way a fun little show about a wealthy woman living her life and doing fun little crafts is generating this much outrage. of course she’s out of touch, and so are gwyneth paltrow and chrissy teigen and any of the other tens of celebrities doing the lifestyle influencer hustle but i don’t see these raging articles about them.
My thoughts are that this is 1) entirely predictable and 2) meaningless.
What will matter – to her and to Netflix – is the numbers. How many people watch and how many people buy the tie ins. So long as enough people watch and buy to make it profitable enough for them, it doesn’t matter what a bunch of predictably angry click farmers have to say.
My Netflix app shows the show in the top 10 in the US though I don’t know how much what I see is targeted to me. I’ll be curious to see.
She doesn’t seem genuine. Her style of speaking and interacting seems pretentious and fake. It gives uncanny and awkward. But here’s the thing, every woman doesn’t need to be relatable or a girls girl. Megan needs to lean into her authentic self.
Meghan is trying to be Nara Smith but Nara Smith is in on the joke. Another example is Gwyneth Paltrow: unabashedly snobby, pretentious, eccentric and wildly unrelatable but successful, because people recognize that is her authentic self.
If she had just been like, “you know what the BRF is fucking weird, monarchy is fucking weird, I don’t want to live in drafty run down cottages for decades playing second fiddle to Kate Middleton or begging my BIL for money,” I think a lot of people would have been like, “yeah I get it” but this woman can not be authentic to save her life, and you see that in this bizarre play acting at being a stay at home domestic goddess.
How can a cooking show trigger this much hate? It’s just a dumb cooking show with her friends. What are people seeing?
Oh look, the British press are outraged at Meghan living her life. How unexpected 🥱
Well, is anyone really surprised that the British press is hating on anything and everything Meghan does anymore?? They are unhealthily obsessed with her.
I liked the show, its escapism and delivers just that.
I said this in a reply, but I don’t really see the difference between this and The Pioneer Woman or Magnolia Table, honestly. They’re all presenting a lifestyle that they may or may not actually live, and Ree and Joanna are both pretty wealthy themselves. It’s idealised and aspirational, that’s the point.
Stop posting this rage bait crap
British press’s grudge aside, I’m a little surprised she’s not doing a promotion circuit for this. Or maybe I’ve missed it! An interview with Kelly Clarkson or GMA arranging flowers seems like a natural fit?
Why do people hate her so much?! Just let her live her aspirational life and scroll on if it bothers you.
I watched the first episode and loved it! Started the second and my two year old daughter was very into it, and I loved that it’s content that I’m comfortable with her watching and is similar to our lifestyle (just obviously on a much simpler scale).
I’m spacing out the episodes but so far enjoy it, it aligns with my interests and values, look forward to watching more and for the items to be available for purchase.
I will say, I do see how it could come off as contrived- but I view it as her being very conscious of the attention on her.
Also, people are criticizing her not filming at her own home- that is the norm for cooking/lifestyle shows.
I’ve only seen a few episodes and I love some of the dishes she made- not fancy, easy.
It’s doing really well on netflix. Top 10 in several countries.
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I’m not interested in reading the reviews but it does not surprise me that they are hateful.
My thoughts are that British print media is ridiculous and hysterical about Meghan. The response from other countries isn’t overwhelmingly positive either, but it doesn’t have these weird personal attacks laced throughout them. Camilla Tominey’s half-a-decade long personal hate boner for Meghan is a form of publicized mental illness.
I don’t think they know what “slated” means lol
Anyway, I tried to watch the show and it was so boring to me. I don’t dislike Meghan, but I also can’t relate to her relentless performative domesticity.
there’s no way a fun little show about a wealthy woman living her life and doing fun little crafts is generating this much outrage. of course she’s out of touch, and so are gwyneth paltrow and chrissy teigen and any of the other tens of celebrities doing the lifestyle influencer hustle but i don’t see these raging articles about them.
My thoughts are that this is 1) entirely predictable and 2) meaningless.
What will matter – to her and to Netflix – is the numbers. How many people watch and how many people buy the tie ins. So long as enough people watch and buy to make it profitable enough for them, it doesn’t matter what a bunch of predictably angry click farmers have to say.
My Netflix app shows the show in the top 10 in the US though I don’t know how much what I see is targeted to me. I’ll be curious to see.
She doesn’t seem genuine. Her style of speaking and interacting seems pretentious and fake. It gives uncanny and awkward. But here’s the thing, every woman doesn’t need to be relatable or a girls girl. Megan needs to lean into her authentic self.
Meghan is trying to be Nara Smith but Nara Smith is in on the joke. Another example is Gwyneth Paltrow: unabashedly snobby, pretentious, eccentric and wildly unrelatable but successful, because people recognize that is her authentic self.
If she had just been like, “you know what the BRF is fucking weird, monarchy is fucking weird, I don’t want to live in drafty run down cottages for decades playing second fiddle to Kate Middleton or begging my BIL for money,” I think a lot of people would have been like, “yeah I get it” but this woman can not be authentic to save her life, and you see that in this bizarre play acting at being a stay at home domestic goddess.
How can a cooking show trigger this much hate? It’s just a dumb cooking show with her friends. What are people seeing?
Oh look, the British press are outraged at Meghan living her life. How unexpected 🥱
Well, is anyone really surprised that the British press is hating on anything and everything Meghan does anymore?? They are unhealthily obsessed with her.
I liked the show, its escapism and delivers just that.
I said this in a reply, but I don’t really see the difference between this and The Pioneer Woman or Magnolia Table, honestly. They’re all presenting a lifestyle that they may or may not actually live, and Ree and Joanna are both pretty wealthy themselves. It’s idealised and aspirational, that’s the point.
Stop posting this rage bait crap
British press’s grudge aside, I’m a little surprised she’s not doing a promotion circuit for this. Or maybe I’ve missed it! An interview with Kelly Clarkson or GMA arranging flowers seems like a natural fit?
Why do people hate her so much?! Just let her live her aspirational life and scroll on if it bothers you.
I watched the first episode and loved it! Started the second and my two year old daughter was very into it, and I loved that it’s content that I’m comfortable with her watching and is similar to our lifestyle (just obviously on a much simpler scale).
I’m spacing out the episodes but so far enjoy it, it aligns with my interests and values, look forward to watching more and for the items to be available for purchase.
I will say, I do see how it could come off as contrived- but I view it as her being very conscious of the attention on her.
Also, people are criticizing her not filming at her own home- that is the norm for cooking/lifestyle shows.
I’ve only seen a few episodes and I love some of the dishes she made- not fancy, easy.
It’s doing really well on netflix. Top 10 in several countries.
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Top 10 in 46 countries (yes I know I said 46) 🙂↕️
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