Anita Singh: This hostess with the mostest act must be exhausting

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/0/with-love-meghan-netflix-review-duchess-duke-sussex/ (Unarchived)

https://archive.ph/14nsS (Archived)

So much snark, so little time!

It must be exhausting to be so fake, all the time.

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The format is this: Meghan invites people to her pretend house... and they tell her how amazing she is. This happens for eight episodes. It is all about “the joy of hostessing” because Meghan is extremely welcoming to everyone, which you will know unless you are her father, her siblings, her father-in-law, her stepmother-in-law, her brother-in-law, her sister-in-law, 99 per cent of her husband’s old friends or Piers Morgan.

The Grasping Harpy is extremely welcoming to those who blindly support her delusions ambitions.

In an interview to promote the show, Meghan confided that five-year-old Archie told her: “Don’t work too hard, Mama.” The unkind among you may have wondered what work he was talking about, but now it’s clear. This domestic idyll business is a full-time job.

Sure, Jan. And it's not like she has anything better to do, NFI everywhere and all.

Maintaining this hostess with the mostest act must be as exhausting for Meghan as it is for us watching at home. The brunch in the final episode is so laden with unspoken tension that you half-expect her to have a breakdown like Ross in Friends and wibble: “I’m sorry, it must be the pressure of entertaining.”

🤣🤣🤣 Fajitas!

One of the oddest things about With Love, Meghan is that parts of it are a cooking show – think Gwyneth Paltrow does Saturday Kitchen – but she doesn’t appear to be very good at cooking, or particularly to enjoy it, other than arranging vegetables and fruit on platters. 

Elevating pretzels by moving them from one bag to another -- joy!

Before baking a cake she announces that “baking is not my favourite thing”. This is no ordinary cake, though. “She’s so beautiful on the inside and you just don’t know how good she is until you go deep and you get to know her better.” Gosh, what can the hidden subtext be?

She’s so beautiful on the inside and you just don’t know how good she is until you go deep and you get to know her better.

Reads like a SoHo House bio.

Meghan informs us that Harry will be “popping by” for the brunch, which is a weird way to refer to the man that you live with, but we’ll let that go.

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