Yes, it's Packed with Nonsense, Extreme Hosting and Psychobabble. However, I Honestly Love Meghan's Festive Episode.
No concerned with the season, it's always fair game for criticism on the Meghan Markle's TV show, With Love, Meghan. Critics, both professional and armchair, have rarely been so united as when eagerly tearing the series' first and second seasons apart. The general consensus was that a bigger monarchy-related faux pas had hardly ever taken place than the notorious pretzel-bagging incident.
Now, in the spirit of a holiday maverick, she is back for another round with a "Christmas Special" (also known as a Christmas special). But this time, it's different. The standard components we've come to expect – vague self-help platitudes, overzealous entertaining – remain, but set of a yuletide episode, it all clicks into place. The pieces have fallen together; it's a perfect snow storm.
Now, Meghan resembles the quirky relative at Christmas celebrations everywhere – providing unasked-for guidance, and supplying the periodic peculiar declaration. ("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 a bit of a character, but her aura is known and strangely comforting. And she seems happy enough; she's causing any harm.
She is aware her each tiny facial movement, word and look will be analyzed and scrutinized, but manages to seem carefree and serenely untroubled.
It could be this is the first occasion in history where that well-worn saying – "Don't listen, it's pure jealousy" – could actually be true. Because, in all honesty, each element in Meghan's Holiday Celebration honestly feels lovely. Yes, it's all cringily ultra-extra, nonsense and extravagant – but doesn't that represent just what Christmas is all about? And the talk she's talking might be absurd, but the example she sets appears to be shop-bought.
Anything she attempts, she pulls off with style. Her cooking looks tasty, the holiday arrangement she creates is stunning, her gifts are nearly too beautiful to tear into. Not a single thing is mediocre or aesthetically displeasing – even the way she secures her apron is stylish and elegant. She doesn't toss a meal in the oven, it "has a moment", and she wraps gift paper like an paper-folding expert. She also seems to be genuinely relishing herself throughout. How could any skeptical viewer not be won over, bursting with festive joy and left with a powerful yearning for handmade crackers or a vegetable display where greens is organized in the form of a Christmas ring?
Meghan was once an actress for a living, naturally, but even so, after the intensity of examination she has endured ever since she became involved with Prince Harry, even a hypothetical offspring of two legendary actresses would struggle to act this authentically. Her unwillingness to change or even tone down her routine, despite it being so relentlessly, widely parodied, is oddly heartening. In our uncertain world, here is something we can rely on: Meghan will stay true to form, come what may. We will consistently know where we are with her.
If you're not yet convinced by her message, a reminder that will undoubtedly come as a comfort: you don't have to. There isn't mandatory conscription anymore, and should it be reinstated, it would be unlikely to include watching With Love, Meghan: Holiday Celebration. If, on the other hand, you decide to tune in and are consumed by envy about her flawless Christmas, you can take solace either. Be you a duchess or a everyday person, no kid truly appreciates the time and energy their parent expends in December. So you can console yourself by imagining her children's faces when they unfold a handwritten message that says, 'I love you because you are brave,' from a handcrafted holiday countdown, instead of a sweet treat.
