Admittedly, it's Full of Gibberish, Extreme Hosting and Psychobabble. However, I Honestly Love Meghan's Festive Episode.
No concerned with the season, it's always hunting season for scrutiny on the Duchess of Sussex's Netflix series, With Love, Meghan. Reviewers, expert and amateur alike, have rarely been so united as when eagerly tearing the series' initial installments to pieces. The general consensus was that a bigger monarchy-related faux pas had seldom occurred than the notorious pretzel re-packaging incident.
Presently, as a festive rebel, she has returned once again with a "Christmas Special" (aka a Christmas special). But this time, the dynamic has changed. The familiar ingredients we've come to expect – meaningless jargon salads, overzealous entertaining – remain, but framed of a Christmas special, it all clicks into place. The puzzle has come into place; it's a perfect snow storm.
Now, Meghan resembles the quirky relative at the typical holiday get-together – offering unsolicited, unnecessary advice, and contributing the occasional strange exclamation. ("I love spinach!" … "A tradition has to have a beginning." … "A tree is part of my memory and love of the holiday season.") She's an interesting figure, but her aura is known and strangely comforting. And she looks content; she's inflicting the slightest hurt.
She understands her all subtle gestures, syllable and look will be dissected and judged, but still appears unburdened and serenely untroubled.
Perhaps this is the first occasion in history where that clichéd phrase – "Pay no mind, it's only envy" – might be true. Since, you know what?, everything in Meghan's Holiday Celebration is delightful. Granted, it's all painfully excessive, silliness and extravagant – but isn't that exactly what the holiday season is about? And the words she speaks might be absurd, but the life she leads genuinely looks impeccably styled.
Anything she attempts, she executes with panache. Her culinary efforts looks tasty, the holiday arrangement she creates is gorgeous, her presents are almost too pretty to unwrap. Nothing is ordinary or visually unappealing – even the way she ties her kitchen garment is creative and fashionable. She doesn't toss a dish in the microwave, it "goes for a spin", and she creases gift paper like an origami guru. She also seems to be genuinely relishing herself from start to finish. How could any skeptical viewer not be charmed, filled with festive joy and left with a powerful yearning for personalized Christmas crackers or a vegetable display where greens is organized in the form of a Christmas ring?
Meghan had a career in acting for a living, obviously, but despite that, after the level of scrutiny she has endured from the moment she started dating Prince Harry, a theoretical combination of two legendary actresses would have difficulty behaving this genuinely. Her refusal to alter or even moderate her shtick, even though it being so relentlessly, globally mocked, is weirdly comforting. In our uncertain world, here is one thing we can count on: Meghan will be like this, come what may. We will forever know where we are with her.
If you're not yet convinced by her brand, a thought that will undoubtedly come as a relief: you aren't required to. There isn't the draft in this country, and if there were, it would be doubtful to include streaming With Love, Meghan: Holiday Celebration. If, however, you willingly check it out and are consumed by jealousy about her picture-perfect Christmas, you can take solace either. If you are a royal or a everyday person, no kid fully understands the dedication and labor their mother expends in December. So you can console yourself by picturing the young royals' faces when they open a handwritten message that says, 'I love you because you are brave,' from a DIY festive calendar, rather than a chocolate.
