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The result is not aspirational; it's grating and tiresome, as pleasant ideas for hosting are packaged with unattainable and frankly impractical additions.
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It’s a failure at both being particularly instructive and at giving us any glimpse into the “real” Meghan—let alone any sort of personableness or starpower that we’ve, for whatever reason, been deprived of seeing. It’s not entertaining or revelatory.
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She’s so cautious, so focused on superficialities, and so unconscious of her disconnect from everyday life. She comes off, in short, like a member of the British royal family: afraid of showing vulnerability, obsessed with appearances, and seeking affirmation from a public she cannot be part of. Nothing could be weirder or more depressing.
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There isn’t enough here to justify the running time, nor its star’s belief we’ll keep watching. The show plays out like a forced march, one in which Meghan’s guests must, as the price of getting to share an afternoon in a made-for-TV kitchen with her, praise her first.
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It’s the lack of humour, irony, self-awareness and apprehension of the reality of this deeply unequal and apocalyptic world that makes With Love, Meghan so unlovable in the end.
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The show simultaneously strains for aspiration and relatability in a way that never gels.