{"id":96327,"date":"2025-08-27T12:50:04","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T12:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/96327\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T12:50:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T12:50:04","slug":"royal-family-live-meghan-markles-boring-and-staged-netflix-series-slammed-by-critics-royal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/96327\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Family LIVE: Meghan Markle&#8217;s &#8216;boring and staged&#8217; Netflix series slammed by critics | Royal | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The second season of <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/meghan-markle\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Meghan Markle<\/a>&#8216;s <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/netflix\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Netflix<\/a> series has received stinging reviews from TV critics. <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/showbiz\/tv-radio\/2100070\/breaking-with-love-meghan-biggest-season-2-bombshells\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Season two of the Duchess of Sussex&#8217;s &#8216;With Love, Meghan&#8217;<\/a> dropped on the streaming giant on Tuesday and sees Meghan share cooking, crafting and hosting tips with an array of friends and experts.<\/p>\n<p>In The Guardian, the eight-episode season was described as &#8220;so boring&#8221; and &#8220;so contrived&#8221;, receiving two stars out of five. It also faced criticism from the <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/royals\/article-15035225\/Critics-reviews-Meghan-Markles-Netflix-season-2-contrived-nano-celebrities.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mail<\/a>&#8216;s Liz Jones who branded it as &#8220;staged, fake and dull&#8221;, although did praise Meghan for being &#8220;genuinely earnest&#8221;. There were also negative reviews in The Times and The Telegraph \u2014 the latter describing the Duchess as a &#8220;Montecito Marie Antoinette&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>THIS IS A LIVE BLOG. SCROLL DOWN FOR THE LATEST.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The second season of Meghan Markle&#8216;s Netflix series has received stinging reviews from TV critics. Season two of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96328,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[46362,96,59,100,392,223,391,56,54,55,21365],"class_list":["post-96327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-duchess-of-sussex","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-meghan-markle","tag-netflix","tag-royal-family","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-with-love-meghan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}