What do you do with Meghan Markle? Or, sorry, like Meghan Sussex, the Duchess, she tells Mindy Kaling that she likes to be called on her new Netflix lifestyle show. With love, Megan.
It's difficult to know what you should think about Meghan Markle/Sussex every day.
Meghan (Shall we just keep things simple and stick to her name?) has long been caught in public traps that are so strange that it's hard to see her objectively. Much of her criticism is rooted in racism and misogyny, and is imposed on the malicious intent of being easy to hang out aside. For example, regarding her decision to resign in 2020 as an active member of the royal family.
In the midst of this slurry of sincerity/maliciousness – Meghan clearly learned the first time With love, Megan – There are some things that are hard to evaluate and more suspicious. This is a criticism based on the sense that Meghan's vibe is simply offensive. People think that she behaves so perfectly, boring, and relies too much on the goodwill of people from her time as a royal punching bag, without producing anything new to justify her and Prince Harry's multi-million dollar media deal.
Everyone is within their rights, public figures rub them in the wrong way. The same goes for the nation, seeing a savvy crisis management company hear the first Amber hearing, then Blake bent public opinion against the vibrant thing. Is there anyone like Meghan Markle? (Photographer, Sussex), Who has written non-stop hatred propaganda about her for eight years?
Still: I'm nagging to see her tell Guest Mindy Kaling that her name is Meghan Sussex now. I've narrowed down a lot of roads With love, Megan.
I don't know if Meghan Sussex is a bad person or a nuisance. It's frankly not my business, and perhaps yours. But now, she doesn't do a good job of being a good celebrity, so the shows she hosts are boring. It's all our business because that's the ability she wants our time and attention.
With love, Megan You can use Martha Stewart style
Part of the problem is that, as a celebrity, Meghan has two distinct antecedents: Princess Diana and Martha Stewart. In the showcase of With love, Meganshe fails to evoke either spirit with a certain skill.
With love, Megan It's good for comparing Martha. That's because, like Martha's works before that, it's dedicated to life. In each of the eight episodes, Meghan invites a friend or two to a lush rental property that serves as a set of shows. She prepares a homemade hostess gift to welcome the friend in question – bath salts, lavender towels, gorgeous flower arrangements – and cooks with her friends to serve a pleasant California casual meal of homemade garden ingredients. Sometimes she helps with the cooking (chefs Roy Che and Alice Waters both feature), but they are not invited to stay for dinner. If you are so moved, you can generally order versions of crafts that Meghan will do on-screen through her new lifestyle brand. (Or, see preview anyway – the actual product doesn't seem to be available for sale yet.)
Meghan is charming and refreshing in front of the camera. Fall into the trance, where she can harvest her honey, melt the beeswax into candles with the scent of essential oils, or cut the Capreseti sandwich into the shape of a c unning little ladybug.
But over time, a kind of black hole in the center of the show begins to assert itself. We don't have the central expertise to manage the promoted lives we are shown. Instead, there is only non-specific pabram when it comes to community power.
Respectfully, if the only thing Meghan is an expert is Kurdite, why are we watching a lifestyle show across her host?
She's doing it for the first time when Meghan makes candles on camera. She continues to sprinkle edible flowers on everything, even though she admits they are tasteless. At one point, Meghan protests with a laugh that she is not a professional chef and is comfortable in the kitchen. She's right: She doesn't have a culinary range to pinpoint a true cooking show, but the entire show is built around watching her cook. It's a large part of each episode. So, in fact, over the course of eight 30-minute episodes, you're watching her make a delicious Kurdite committee that's equally clean and questionable at least five times.
Respectfully, if the only thing Meghan is an expert is Kurdite, why are we watching a lifestyle show across her host?
This is where Martha Stewart's comparisons are the most flattering. Martha brings steely neurotic perfectionism to everything she's done so far, a fanatic commitment to the belief that there's the right way to do it all at home, and that only Martha can show you the way. This was a quality that people disliked her in the 90s, but it was also a quality that made her very persuasive on TV. And it was based on true expertise. Martha really renovated the house with her hands and ran her own catering company for years. She really had a wide range of great skills, versatile.
Meghan has the skill set of being a beautiful and charming rich woman who probably holds a very nice dinner party. As a premise for television shows, returns will decrease.
Princess Diana's problem as a reference
Meghan never calls Princess Diana With love, Megan. Diana was once a central part of Meghan and Harry's story, so that's surprising in a way.
When Harry and Meghan resigned from their position as senior members of the royal family in 2020, they explained that they explained I had it Diana had to leave for the same reason. Because those with a free spirit could not survive in the British royal family. The story Meghan and Harry were saying was that they were redeemed of Diana's legacy. Unlike Diana, Diana was alone when she left, so they survive. It was a powerful story, and a story they often said.
It's been five years since Meghan and Harry returned from the royal family, and the stories they've been telling about themselves need to evolve and grow. By the time she left the royal family after her then divorced Charles in 1996, Diana had found an impressive way to deal with that matter.
Diana's story is tragic and persuasive for many reasons. Because she died so young and pointlessly. But what gives Diana's story weight and gravita is that she is able to exploit her ability to induce public attention to truly productive purposes that makes such a memorable person.
Diana was photographed in 1987 with a blurry waving with an AIDS patient. This was at the height of a trend that many people believed could catch AIDS with touch. She went through living land fields in Angola and campaigned for a ban on land mines. She understood how to put herself at the heart of her promotional stunts and how to pay that stunt salary for overlooked human rights issues. That's how she made her undeniable and fascinating issues, and that's why she is remembered as a martian.
It is almost impossible to tell her what is inappropriate, that she is malicious, and what the consequences of eight years of misogyny and racism poisoning the well for her.
Meghan and Harry are both actively involved in important charity causes. In 2022, they received the NAACP Presidential Award for their work on causes related to social justice and equity. They are campaigning for vaccine equity, mental health and women in the workplace. But aside the choice to dedicate one of Netflix's shows to Invictus Games, Harry's signature product of sports competition for injured veterans, they have not tied philanthropy to public storytelling.
It's no wonder Meghan is struggling there in particular. So many people are waiting in breath to criticise her slight movements, and they can't even publicly send gifts to the victims of La Fire without being accused of making everything about her. This is the problem we encounter all the time and deal with Meghan. It is almost impossible for her to convey what is inappropriate, that she is malicious, and the consequences of eight years of misogyny and racism. Ultimately, it leaves Meghan in the same place. In front of the camera, she slaps her new edible flower sprinkles, but she can't even order them yet.
Meghan is not Princess Diana or Martha Stewart. She's not even Meghan Markle anymore. But after all years of these relentless tabloid criticism, all media deals that are not going to be launched by exciting, fumble businesses, seemingly blocked when it comes to showing exactly who Meghan Sussex is and why we should care about her.
However, she appears to be making a lovely crudite platter.
