Admittedly, it's Brimming with Gibberish, Over-the-Top Hospitality and Self-Help Jargon. However, I Honestly Love Meghan's Christmas Special.
No considering the season, it's constantly fair game for scrutiny on the Meghan Markle's Netflix series, With Love, Meghan. Commentators, both professional and armchair, have rarely been so united as when eagerly tearing the series' first and second seasons to shreds. The common opinion was that a greater royal outrage had hardly ever taken place than the notorious pretzel re-packaging incident.
Currently, like a merry renegade master, she makes a comeback with a new offering with a "Christmas Special" (also known as a Christmas special). However on this occasion, the dynamic has changed. The usual elements viewers are accustomed to – vague self-help platitudes, extreme hosting – remain, but framed of a holiday show, suddenly it all makes sense. The puzzle has come together; it's a perfect snow storm.
By this point, Meghan has become the oddball family member at most festive family gatherings – providing random tips, and supplying the odd random outburst. ("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 oddly reassuring. And she seems content; she's inflicting any harm.
She is aware her every micro expression, syllable and glance will be analyzed and judged, but manages to seem carefree and too blessed to be stressed.
Maybe this is the only time in history where that clichéd phrase – "Ignore them, they're just jealous" – might be true. The reason is, let's face it, each element in Meghan's Holiday Celebration is charming. Granted, it's all cringily ultra-extra, nonsense and over the top – but is that not exactly what the holiday season is about? And the advice she gives might be laughable, but the walk she's walking genuinely looks impeccably styled.
Whatever she sets her mind to, she executes with flair. Her recipes looks tasty, the holiday arrangement she makes is stunning, her presents are practically too exquisite to open. Not a single thing is average or aesthetically displeasing – even the way she secures her apron is artful and chic. She doesn't toss a meal in the oven, it "goes for a spin", and she folds gift paper like an paper-folding expert. She also seems to be completely savoring herself throughout. How could any hate-watcher not be charmed, filled with festive joy and left with a powerful yearning for handmade crackers or a vegetable display where broccoli is arranged in the form of a wreath?
Meghan used to pretend for a living, obviously, but despite that, after the intensity of attention she has weathered ever since she met Prince Harry, a theoretical combination of Meryl Streep and Judi Dench would find it hard to appear this naturally. Her decision to modify or even soften her shtick, despite it being so constantly, internationally ridiculed, is weirdly comforting. In our uncertain world, here is something we can rely on: Meghan will remain herself, whatever happens. We will consistently know what to expect with her.
If you're not yet convinced by her brand, a thought that will certainly come as a comfort: you are not obligated to. There isn't the draft these days, and if there were, it would be doubtful to include viewing With Love, Meghan: Holiday Celebration. If, conversely, you willingly check it out and are consumed by envy about her picture-perfect Christmas, you can take solace either. If you are a duchess or a office worker, hardly any child truly appreciates the dedication and labor their mother puts in in the holiday season. So you can find comfort by picturing her children's faces when they open a beautifully scripted letter that says, 'I love you because you are brave,' from a handcrafted holiday countdown, in place of a sweet treat.
