Season 2 of Meghan Markle\u2019s lifestyle Netflix show<\/a> flopped after being eviscerated by UK critics<\/a>.<\/p>\n 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<\/a> Friday.<\/p>\n 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 Season 2 of Meghan Markle\u2019s lifestyle Netflix show flopped after being eviscerated by UK critics. COURTESY OF NETFLIX<\/p>\n 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. Netflix<\/p>\n According to the outlet, 2.6 million people watched \u201cWith Love, Meghan\u201d Season 1 when it debuted in March 2024.<\/p>\n The drop in popularity follows a wave of criticism of Markle\u2019s series from across the pond.<\/p>\n 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 Forbes noted that Markle\u2019s show had to have been watched by 500,000 fewer viewers than its first season in its first week. Jake Rosenberg\/Netflix<\/p>\n According to the outlet, 2.6 million people watched \u201cWith Love, Meghan\u201d Season 1 when it debuted in March 2024. Jake Rosenberg\/Netflix<\/p>\n Mangan also\u00a0credited 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 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 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 The drop in popularity follows a wave of criticism of Markle\u2019s series from across the pond. Netflix<\/p>\n Reviewers called the program \u201cboring\u201d and \u201ccontrived\u201d while labeling its host as \u201ctone-deaf.\u201d Netflix<\/p>\n 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 Though Singh\u00a0called 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 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 Markle brushed off the negativity, insisting that both her audience and her partners \u201cloved the show.\u201d JAKE ROSENBERG\/NETFLIX<\/p>\n She cheekily added, \u201cAre they saying negative things and then going home and secretly making single skillet spaghetti? Possibly.\u201d Jake Rosenberg\/Netflix<\/p>\n She cheekily added, \u201cAre they saying negative things and then going home and secretly making single skillet spaghetti? Possibly.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWith Love, Meghan\u201d was part of the\u00a0$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<\/span><\/div>\n
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