{"id":2000136,"date":"2025-09-05T19:56:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T19:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2000136"},"modified":"2025-09-05T19:56:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T19:56:04","slug":"meghan-markles-netflix-show-flops-after-being-eviscerated-by-uk-critics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/meghan-markles-netflix-show-flops-after-being-eviscerated-by-uk-critics\/","title":{"rendered":"Meghan Markle&#8217;s Netflix show flops after being eviscerated by UK critics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Season 2 of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2025\/08\/26\/royal-family\/meghan-markles-with-love-meghan-season-2-revelations-wedding-secrets-and-more\/\">Meghan Markle\u2019s lifestyle Netflix show<\/a> flopped after <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2025\/08\/26\/entertainment\/meghan-markles-painful-second-season-of-with-love-meghan-trashed-by-uk-critics\/\">being eviscerated by UK critics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The eight-episode second installment of \u201cWith Love, Meghan,\u201d which dropped on Aug. 26, did not make the streamer\u2019s Top 10 list for the week of Aug. 25 to Aug. 31, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/maryroeloffs\/2025\/09\/02\/with-love-meghan-misses-netflix-top-10\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Forbes reported<\/a> Friday.<\/p>\n<p>While Netflix does not release weekly viewing data for shows outside of its 10 most popular, Forbes noted that Markle\u2019s show had to have been watched by 500,000 fewer viewers than the first season in its first week.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Season 2 of Meghan Markle\u2019s lifestyle Netflix show flopped after being eviscerated by UK critics. <span class=\"credit\">COURTESY OF NETFLIX<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>The eight-episode second installment of \u201cWith Love, Meghan,\u201d which dropped on Aug. 26, did not make the streamer\u2019s Top 10 list for the week of Aug. 25 to Aug. 31, Forbes reported Friday. <span class=\"credit\">Netflix<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>According to the outlet, 2.6 million people watched \u201cWith Love, Meghan\u201d Season 1 when it debuted in March 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The drop in popularity follows a wave of criticism of Markle\u2019s series from across the pond.<\/p>\n<p>After its premiere, The Guardian\u2019s Lucy Mangan\u00a0slammed the program\u00a0as \u201cso boring,\u201d \u201cso painfully contrived\u201d and \u201cso effortfully whimsical\u201d that it \u201cdoes become almost fascinating.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Forbes noted that Markle\u2019s show had to have been watched by 500,000 fewer viewers than its first season in its first week. <span class=\"credit\">Jake Rosenberg\/Netflix<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>According to the outlet, 2.6 million people watched \u201cWith Love, Meghan\u201d Season 1 when it debuted in March 2024. <span class=\"credit\">Jake Rosenberg\/Netflix<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Mangan also\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2025\/08\/13\/celebrity-news\/meghan-markle-fans-outraged-over-bully-chrissy-teigens-guest-appearance-in-with-love-meghan\/\">credited guest Chrissy Teigen<\/a>\u00a0with being the \u201chigh point\u201d of the show, arguing that she and other celebrities who made cameos weren\u2019t \u201cpaid enough.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Times\u00a0issued a similarly scathing take\u00a0on the renegade royal\u2019s show, referring to the host as \u201ca woman in need of some cash.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hilary Rose told the outlet that the \u201cbaffling\u201d series occupied \u201cthe sweet spot where irrelevant meets intolerable\u201d and made her \u201crock back and forth in a darkened room.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>The drop in popularity follows a wave of criticism of Markle\u2019s series from across the pond. <span class=\"credit\">Netflix<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Reviewers called the program \u201cboring\u201d and \u201ccontrived\u201d while labeling its host as \u201ctone-deaf.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">Netflix<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Meanwhile, Anita Singh from the Telegraph\u00a0labeled \u201cWith Love, Meghan\u201d as \u201ctone-deaf\u201d\u00a0because the \u201cepisode about cocktail-making in Malibu is dedicated to the first responders and victims of the California wildfires.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Though Singh\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2023\/11\/16\/royal-family\/step-inside-meghan-markle-and-prince-harrys-14m-montecito-mansion\/\">called the \u201cMontecito Marie Antoinette\u201d<\/a>\u00a0a \u201cneedy\u201d host, she did highlight Markle \u201cdrop[ping] her Type-A perfection\u201d and seeming \u201crelatively normal\u201d in some \u201cself-deprecating\u201d and \u201clikable\u201d moments.<\/p>\n<p>The former actress, 44, responded to the hate in an\u00a0interview with Emily Chang, explaining, \u201cI knew who I was trying to meet. If you know your audience, you know your demographic, they loved the show. My partners loved the show. That\u2019s why they have a Season 2 and why we have more fun coming.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Markle brushed off the negativity, insisting that both her audience and her partners \u201cloved the show.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">JAKE ROSENBERG\/NETFLIX<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>She cheekily added, \u201cAre they saying negative things and then going home and secretly making single skillet spaghetti? Possibly.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">Jake Rosenberg\/Netflix<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>She cheekily added, \u201cAre they saying negative things and then going home and secretly making single skillet spaghetti? Possibly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith Love, Meghan\u201d was part of the\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2025\/07\/23\/celebrity-news\/meghan-markles-exclusive-100m-netflix-deal-is-done-but-more-tv-projects-are-coming-soon-from-her-and-prince-harry\/\">$100 million Netflix deal<\/a>\u00a0that Markle and\u00a0her husband, Prince Harry, landed in 2020 after they stepped down from their royal duties and moved to California.<\/p>\n<p>Page Six reported last month that the couple had recently\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2025\/08\/11\/royal-family\/prince-harry-and-meghan-markles-new-netflix-partnership-wont-come-close-to-previous-100m-deal\/\">extended their partnership<\/a>\u00a0with the streamer \u2014 but for an amount that is \u201cmuch\u201d less and therefore poses \u201cno risk for Netflix\u201d while saving them both \u201creputationally.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source pagesix.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Season 2 of Meghan Markle\u2019s lifestyle Netflix show flopped after being eviscerated by UK critics. The eight-episode second installment of \u201cWith Love, Meghan,\u201d which dropped on Aug. 26, did not make the streamer\u2019s Top 10 list for the week of Aug. 25 to Aug. 31, Forbes reported Friday. 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