A source has claimed the Duchess’ relationship with Netflix could be in trouble after the new season of With Love, Meghan has failed to pull in an audience
The new season of Meghan Markle’s lifestyle show has failed to pull in an audience and is “not doing well” for Netflix, a source has claimed.
The second series of With Love, Meghan, aired on Tuesday and was subject to a spate of negative reviews by major publications just hours after its premiere. The second instalment, which follows on from the equally panned first season, sees Meghan share cooking, crafting, and hosting tips with a range of pals and experts.
But despite her range of celebrity guests, it seems the programme has failed to excite the Netflix audience, with a source revealing the future of the show is now up in the air. It comes after confirmation that Prince Harry will return to the UK on anniversary of Queen Elizabeth’s death.
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“People who worked on the show don’t think it will be picked up for another season,” an insider told Parade. “It’s not doing well or what the network would have hoped it would do.” The source added: “It’s not the success they wanted it to be.”
The claims come after season two of With Love, Meghan was widely panned just hours after its highly-anticipated release on Netflix on Tuesday.
In the second instalment, Meghan is joined by guests such as US model and TV personality Chrissy Teigen and Queer Eye star Tan France, as well as podcaster Jay Shetty and his cookbook author wife Radhi Devlukia. While chefs joining Meghan include Clare Smyth, who runs Core, a three-Michelin star restaurant in London, and Jose Andres, who set up the World Central Kitchen.
Despite the line-up of celebrity figures featuring on the show, critics have shared their scathing reviews of the second series, with The Telegraph giving the lifestyle a two-star rating, panning the season as “marginally less mad but more needy” than its first instalment.
The review went on to call Meghan a “Montecito Marie Antoinette”, and called the series as a whole “boring and at times, pretty insufferable”. The Telegraph’s Anita Singh added that Harry’s absence from the show – despite the programme being based on the couple’s Californian home life – was becoming “increasingly weird”.
The sentiment was echoed by The Guardian, who dismissed the show as a “gormless lifestyle filler”. The publication also gave the second series a mere two stars, as the review went on to say how Meghan’s show is “so painfully contrived that it’s genuinely fascinating,” before questioning whether “Meghan’s impulse to sprinkle flowers over everything is a choice or a compulsion”.
While professional critics seemed to unanimously dislike the second series of With Love, Meghan, some of the Duchess’s loyal fans online have shared their opposite thoughts on the show, with one viewer writing on X: “It was such a joy and laughter. I loved every episode.”
Meghan also defended her show in an appearance on The Circuit podcast with host Emily Chang when she was asked about the divisive reviews of season one of the show, and how the hate comments landed, as she said: “I think I know who I was trying to meet, so if you know your audience and you know your demographic, well they love the show, and my partners love the show and that’s why we have a season two.”
“So I often think of the negative voices, are they saying negative things and then secretly going home and making my single skillet spaghetti? Maybe they are. So from my standpoint, the intention of the show was to show more of myself, to share tips that I love in my life, and to have fun.”
The Mirror contacted Meghan’s representatives for comment, who dismissed the claims.
