Markle needs sparkle

Meghan Markle's show is a snoozefest, and her guests deserve better. It's time to swap the dull crafts for some actual fun

- SEEMA GOSWAMI

My first thought when I caught the first season of With Love, Meghan on Netflix was, “How on earth did this bilge make it to the airwaves?” And my last thought as I gritted my teeth to make my way to the end of the second season was – yes, you guessed it! – “how did this drivel merit a second season?”

Well, there's an easy explanation for that. Apparently, all the episodes were shot in one go and then divvied up into two lots so that Meghan Markle and Netflix could announce that “Yay, the show has been commissioned for a second season!” But honestly, if you ask me (and the many, many reviewers across the world who have panned the show), Netflix would have been better off making a program on watching paint dry. It would have been more compelling viewing than watching Meghan flail around in a rented mansion, entertaining 'friends' (some of whom she had never met before), which, in her book, translates into making them do arts and crafts to earn their supper.