A CHRISTMAS TURKEY

Netflix's 'With Love, Meghan: Holiday Celebration' is not fun, enjoyable or even aspirational, writes Hannah Ewens.

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Did you know that you're supposed to wrap Christmas lights around your tree twice? Once further in and then again on the outside? I suppose I didn't, but it makes logical sense. I've never thought to make my own Christmas plates, or considered writing little love notes to my family in refillable felt Advent calendars either, but Meghan Markle has mused on many aspects of Christmas for her predictably insipid festive special.

Now, I like Christmas, and I don't have one of these weird royalist vendettas against the Duchess of Sussex - I think she seems like a lovely, sweet woman! So in theory, I should enjoy With Love, Meghan: Holiday Celebration for what it means to provide: a massage for the brain. Sadly, this most Markle-y of Netflix content tests the limits of my holiday cheer.

Before any guests arrive for her Christmas party, she preps by writing “’Tis the seasoning” on her kitchen chalkboard, and smushes some chocolate, biscuits and sugar together in a sloppy bowl to make “Reindeer Chow”(?) When she brings in her first visitor, the New York restaurateur Will Guidara, the energy shifts. Is this sexual tension between them? Or just the feeling of Netflix having put a gun to his head?