Markle’s new show, With Love, Meghan, drips with saccharine inanities

Meghan Markle simpers and gushes and doesn’t keep quiet in her new Netflix show, With Love, Meghan. You have been warned, this is truly dreadful.

Meghan Markle’s Netflix series With Love, Meghan dropped on the streamer today. Picture: Netflix

With Love, Meghan has dropped on Netflix and, as predicted, the show is, well, inane.

With saccharine music, a twee blurry white border framing the screen, Meghan provides ­incredibly helpful hints such as re-packaging things in plastic bags with twine and a label to put on a guest’s bedside.

Then in a wow moment, ­Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex surprises viewers with … putting some fresh flowers in the guest room. Helpfully, she tells us these are “bedside blooms”.

If viewers can survive through to the eighth and last episode – part of the $US100m Netflix deal the Sussexes signed after abandoning the royal family – Meghan delivers a gentle swipe at her temporary life in the United Kingdom where, a member of the royals, she couldn’t commercialise her “creativity” and had to shut down her lifestyle blog, The Tig.

To a gathering of guests including Prince Harry and her mother Doria Ragland, Meghan raises a glass while babbling about a “new chapter I am so excited that I’m able to share”, before adding, “and here we go, there’s a business, all of that is part of that creativity that I’ve missed so much, so thank you for loving me so much and celebrating with me.”

The series opens with a bumble bee and Meghan disclosing that she has been keeping bees “for year now, but I am so scared”. She then looks to the camera and notes, originally, “they are busy, busy bees”.

Meghan, a self-described working mother, with Prince Harry. Picture: Netflix

As a self-described working mother, Meghan gives other working parents tips on how to make a cake in the four hours of waiting for beeswax candles to set, all the while wearing pristine white clothes without an apron.

And with the honey from the bees you, too, can make a three-layered honey cake, she tells her guest, a make-up artist whom her kids, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet call Uncle Daniel.

Daniel gushes in the vanish­ingly rare moments Meghan pauses to take a breath. We even learned from Meghan how tough life really was: “All those years I had to do make-up all by myself.”

Meghan Markle shows how to make a rainbow of fruit. Picture: Netflix

Daniel, it has to be said, must be good with a make-up brush ­because he cuts himself with a knife, and questions whether to put cheese on the top of a pasta dish. But, hey presto, Meghan shows him how to pipe some homemade jam from a plastic bag onto one of the layers of the cake. Sorted.

Netflix must be worried. The streaming giant is a premium product, charging premium prices to deliver original shows with big budgets. But With Love, Meghan is a standard daytime filler, the sort of program shoehorned into dead-time to satisfy local content rules.

You have been warned, this is truly dreadful.