Meghan Markle’s Netflix Cooking Show Gets Roasted By Critics: ‘Pointless’ and ‘Joyless.’ Meghan Markle’s Inner Circle Felt ‘Personally Offended’ Over Not Receiving Her Jam. The Duchess Drops Dig At Palace In New Show
Naughty But Nice with Rob Shuter
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🗓️ 5 March 2025
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Meghan Markle’s brand-new Netflix series is getting torched by critics, with some calling it an “exercise in narcissism.” The Duchess of Sussex, 43, revealed that some of her closest friends were “personally offended” after not receiving a jar of her exclusive homemade preserves last year. Royal watchers couldn't help but wonder—was the former actress hinting at the stifling nature of her royal past?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, hello, loy, loy, loy, loy, loy, loy, loy, welcome to me naughty but nice. I'm your host, drop shooter, and it is Wednesday, which means I do you friend. Donnie Meacham joins us. Hey Donnie are you there? |
| 0:24.3 | Hello, blah, la la la la. Hello. I got to practice being what uptight today. I got a |
| 0:30.4 | practice being, you know, a little high brow today since it's our girl, Megan Markle. |
| 0:35.0 | Megan. |
| 0:36.2 | Megan, sweetie. Yesterday she released her entire series. I think it's our girl, Megan Markle. Megan, sweetie. |
| 0:41.0 | Yesterday she released her entire series. |
| 0:42.7 | I think it's eight of episodes in all. |
| 0:46.9 | I watched all of them, and we're going to get into it today. |
| 0:49.4 | What time is it, my friends, it is tea time. So first of all, let's talk about Megan's critical response. |
| 0:53.6 | So the critics have now seen this. |
| 0:56.0 | Netflix did not send out screeners, which is very telling the screener is an advanced copy. |
| 1:02.1 | And often the press get them early and they can write their reviews, put in barger them to drop the day the show drops. |
| 1:08.7 | That didn't happen. |
| 1:09.6 | So I think this sort of made critics a little bit prickly. |
| 1:12.6 | Am I allowed to say that? |
| 1:14.1 | That they had to watch all eight episodes in a day. |
| 1:17.2 | And it's a lot. |
| 1:18.1 | It's a lot to watch. |
| 1:19.7 | I did it. |
| 1:20.8 | One critic is saying it's pointless. |
| 1:23.5 | Another saying it's joyless. |
| 1:25.3 | And maybe the harshest is saying it is an exercise in narcissism let me explain |
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