ROYALSMeghan Markle's Netflix Show Has a 'Lobotomized Vibe,' Taunts Journalist: 'Feels Like It Was Filmed in a Mental Institution for Wealthy Women'
'With Love, Meghan' started streaming on Netflix on Tuesday, March 4.
The reviews for Meghan Markle's new Netflix show continue to pour in — and they're only getting worse.
In a Substack chat with media executive Janice Min and journalist Tina Brown, the ladies agreed With Love, Meghan feels outdated and braindead.
Meghan Markle's Netflix show 'With Love, Meghan' received negative reviews.
"To me, I felt like it was a cultural fossil. She’s always brilliant behind the curve, Meghan. You know what I mean? This was like flashback to 2013 to the era of The Tig, her blog, which was sort of shout-outs for humanitarian causes and Diptyque candles," Brown explained. "It’s almost as if she wanted to airbrush out everything that happened since and sort of go back to that moment in time."
Journalists found the series to be outdated and inauthentic.
Min agreed it was like HGTV circa 2012 and said, "She tried on a persona. It didn’t work. This is very, as the kids would say, trad wife. I was very surprised."
Brown agreed, noting the series was "so unbelievably inauthentic."
"She’s still searching for that thing that makes her authentic ... It should have been her sitting there saying, ‘Will someone for God’s sake, get me an effing project? I don’t have anything to do. I can’t hang on to staff. I’m at my wit’s end.' I mean, it actually would’ve been refreshing to have seen a bit of that," Brown continued, referring to how several members of Meghan and Prince Harry's staff have quit over the years.
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"It feels like it was filmed in a mental institution for wealthy women," Min confessed. "It kind of had that lobotomized vibe."
She also noted the show's guests seemed like they were in a "hostage situation."
As OK! reported, one of the most viral moments of the series was when the former actress corrected pal Mindy Kaling about her last name.
One editor said the show gave off 'a lobotomized vibe.'
In one scene, the comedic actress said to her pal, "People wouldn’t believe that Meghan Markle ate at Jack in the Box."
"It's so funny, too, that you keep saying Meghan Markle. You know I’m Sussex now," the mom-of-two replied, detailing how "meaningful" the title is.
"You have kids and you go, 'No, I share my name with my children.' It just means so much to go, 'This is our family name, our little family name,'" she explained of Archie, 5, and Lilibet, 3.
Mindy Kaling insisted she had a 'great time' filming despite the backlash.
Despite the negative reactions, The Office alum insisted she "had a great time" filming when she talked about the venture on the Thursday, March 6, episode of The View.
"I noticed that whenever I do something related to Meghan, it becomes…"
"Big news," Whoopi Goldberg suggested.
Kaling agreed and shared, "We were making sandwiches and, you know, then they’ll push in on my face on TikTok and they’ll be like, ‘Look at this emotion you felt.' And I honestly didn’t even remember, ‘cause we shot it, like, nine months ago."
