The second season of Meghan Markle’s Netflix show, “With Love, Meghan,” is just as brutal to watch as Season 1, according to critics.
A new eight-part installment of the Duchess of Sussex’s lifestyle series dropped on the streaming platform in the early hours of Tuesday morning, and features guest appearances from Markle’s celeb pals, including Chrissy Teigen, Tan France, Jay Shetty and more.
The show follows a similar format to the first season, which sees the former actress share tips and tricks for hosting at home and getting in tune with at-home hobbies.
But just hours after hitting the streamer, the series was mercilessly mocked by several critics who slammed the show as “tone deaf” and “self-indulgent.”
In its two-star review of the second season, The Telegraph labeled Markle’s latest episodes “needy,” and said they were only “marginally less mad” than the first season.
“It’s more of the same,” writes the Telegraph’s Anita Singh. “But this time there is an urgent question to be asked: has she got Harry locked in the pantry?”
“Because while these eight episodes are stuffed with mentions of Harry, the man himself is nowhere to be seen, which looks increasingly weird in a show based on the couple’s Californian home life.”
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The outlet’s scathing review also notes that “too many” of Markle’s on-screen conversations “seem calculated.”
“‘What does this say about me?’ ‘Am I dropping in just enough detail about Archie and Lili to satisfy the audience?’” Singh adds.
“The closing credits play out to the lyrics ‘don’t let it be the last time.’ Please, let it be the last time,” the review concludes.
Elsewhere, The Times of London said that the latest installment of Markle’s show is “a series in search of a meaning, fronted by a woman in need of some cash.”
“Seven more episodes to go. Save yourselves. Don’t do it. I sinned in a past life, so I’ll get back to you,” writes the Times of London’s Hilary Rose, who urges readers to “start therapy now.”
In his own account of the second season, The Sun‘s Royal Editor, Matt Wilkinson, called the series “self-indulgent.”
“Markle’s second series of her self-indulgent Netflix show ‘With love, Meghan’ has hit TV screens — with more nauseating clips of her gushing over simple foods,” he writes.
The Guardian, meanwhile, said Markle’s new episodes were “so painfully contrived.”
In her two-star review of the second season, Lucy Mangan writes, “It’s so boring, so contrived, so effortfully whimsical that, do you know what? In the end, it does become almost fascinating.”
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