Kiss the Netflix deal goodbye! With Love, Meghan is so pointless it might be the Sussexes’ last TV show
After Harry’s dud polo docuseries, the couple need to get back to giving people the dramatic monarchy revelations they crave – not a Duchess joylessly filling kids’ party bags with seeds
Unless it becomes a ratings smash (and that isn’t impossible), With Love, Meghan doesn’t just represent the hard launch of Duchess of Sussex’s new career as a Martha Stewart-style lifestyle inspo guru; it might also be the final thing she makes for Netflix.
The terms of the deal Harry and Meghan signed with the streamer in 2021 were, by all accounts, wildly favourable. Their five-year deal was worth $100m, in the expectation that they would be so brimming with ideas that they would become Obama-style prestige-content producers. Reader, as you already know, this did not happen.
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