Admittedly, it's Packed with Absurdity, Extreme Hosting and Psychobabble. However, I Honestly Love Meghan's Holiday Special.
No concerned with the season, it's perpetually hunting season for commentary on the Meghan Markle's Netflix series, With Love, Meghan. Critics, both professional and armchair, have rarely been so united as when enthusiastically shredding the lifestyle show's initial installments to shreds. The general consensus held that a greater royal outrage had never been witnessed than the now-infamous pretzel re-packaging incident.
Currently, as a festive rebel, she makes a comeback with a new offering with a "Holiday Celebration" (also known as a yuletide episode). However on this occasion, it's different. The standard components audiences anticipate – vague self-help platitudes, extreme hosting – remain, but framed of a yuletide episode, it all clicks into place. The puzzle has come together; it's a flawless festive blizzard.
At this stage, Meghan has become the eccentric aunt at Christmas celebrations everywhere – offering unsolicited, unnecessary advice, and delivering 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 company is customary and unexpectedly soothing. And she appears happy enough; she's inflicting a bit of damage.
She knows her each tiny facial movement, utterance and look will be analyzed and scrutinized, but manages to seem relaxed and remarkably at ease.
It could be this is the first occasion in history where that well-worn saying – "Don't listen, it's pure jealousy" – might be true. The reason is, you know what?, all aspects in Meghan's Holiday Celebration truly is delightful. Granted, it's all cringily ultra-extra, foolishness and extravagant – but is that not exactly what Christmas is all about? And the words she speaks might be absurd, but the life she leads seems authentically shop-bought.
Anything she attempts, she accomplishes with flair. Her recipes looks tasty, the festive decoration she makes is gorgeous, her presents are practically too exquisite to unwrap. Nothing is mediocre or visually unappealing – even the way she fastens her kitchen garment is stylish and elegant. She doesn't bung a dish in the microwave, it "takes a twirl", and she wraps gift paper like an paper-folding expert. She also seems to be completely savoring herself the entire time. How could any skeptical viewer not be convinced, filled with festive joy and left with a powerful yearning for crafted festive snaps or a crudites platter where greens is arranged in the likeness of a Christmas ring?
Meghan was once an actress for a living, naturally, but nonetheless, after the degree of examination she has weathered from the moment she became involved with Prince Harry, even a hypothetical offspring of two legendary actresses would have difficulty behaving this genuinely. Her unwillingness to change or even moderate her persona, regardless of it being so constantly, globally mocked, is weirdly comforting. In our uncertain world, here is something we can depend on: Meghan will remain herself, whatever happens. We will always know what to expect with her.
If you're still not buying her brand, a reminder that will undoubtedly come as a reassurance: you aren't required to. We don't have national service in this country, and should it be reinstated, it would be unlikely to include watching With Love, Meghan: Holiday Celebration. If, conversely, you choose to watch and are overcome with jealousy about her picture-perfect Christmas, all is not lost either. Whether you're a royal or a office worker, hardly any child truly appreciates the dedication and labor their parent puts in in December. So you can find comfort by imagining her children's faces when they open a beautifully scripted letter that says, 'I love you because you are brave,' from a homemade Advent calendar, in place of a candy.
