Yes, it's Packed with Absurdity, Extreme Hosting and Self-Help Jargon. However, I Honestly Love Meghan's Holiday Special.
No matter the season, it's constantly hunting season for scrutiny on the Meghan Markle's televisual offering, With Love, Meghan. Reviewers, both professional and armchair, have hardly ever agreed so completely as when enthusiastically shredding the program's first and second seasons to pieces. The common opinion was that a more egregious regal scandal had hardly ever taken place than the much-discussed pretzel re-packaging incident.
Currently, as a festive rebel, she makes a comeback for another round with a "Festive Special" (or a yuletide episode). However on this occasion, things have shifted. The familiar ingredients viewers are accustomed to – meaningless jargon salads, intense hospitality – remain, but within the context of a yuletide episode, it all clicks into place. The elements have slid into place; it's a perfect snow storm.
At this stage, Meghan resembles the eccentric aunt at most festive family gatherings – offering unsolicited, unnecessary advice, and delivering 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 company is customary and unexpectedly soothing. And she seems happy enough; she's inflicting the slightest hurt.
She knows her each tiny facial movement, syllable and look will be analyzed and scrutinized, but manages to seem unburdened and remarkably at ease.
Perhaps this is the first occasion in history where that clichéd phrase – "Pay no mind, it's only envy" – may well be true. The reason is, in all honesty, each element in Meghan's Holiday Celebration is lovely. Admittedly, it's all cringily ultra-extra, nonsense and extravagant – but isn't that precisely what Christmas is all about? And the words she speaks might be absurd, but the walk she's walking appears to be impeccably styled.
Anything she attempts, she accomplishes with style. Her recipes looks delicious, the festive decoration she crafts is breathtaking, her gifts are nearly too beautiful to unwrap. Not a single thing is ordinary or aesthetically displeasing – even the way she ties her kitchen garment is stylish and elegant. She doesn't bung a meal in the oven, it "has a moment", and she wraps gift paper like an origami guru. She also seems to be thoroughly enjoying herself from start to finish. How could any skeptical viewer not be charmed, bursting with holiday spirit and left with a intense desire for crafted festive snaps or a crudites platter where broccoli is positioned in the form of a Christmas ring?
Meghan had a career in acting for a living, of course, but even so, after the intensity of scrutiny she has endured from the moment she started dating Prince Harry, a theoretical combination of acting royalty would struggle to act this naturally. Her unwillingness to alter or even moderate her routine, regardless of it being so constantly, internationally ridiculed, is strangely reassuring. In our uncertain world, here is something we can rely on: Meghan will remain herself, come what may. We will always know our position with her.
If you're still not buying her message, a reminder that will certainly come as a relief: you don't have to. The UK has abolished mandatory conscription anymore, and if there were, it would be doubtful to include streaming With Love, Meghan: Holiday Celebration. If, conversely, you choose to watch and are gripped with longing about her flawless Christmas, there is hope either. Whether you're a duchess or a everyday person, hardly any child truly appreciates the time and energy their parent expends in December. So you can find comfort by imagining her children's faces when they open a handwritten message that says, 'I love you because you are brave,' from a DIY festive calendar, instead of a chocolate.
