Does Meghan and Harry's Netflix documentary live up to its no-holds-barred expectations? Well, within the first five minutes we've seen a make-up-less Meghan, hair wrapped in a towel, crying into her phone camera - so I'm going to say yes.
"What are we doing?" the couple wonder more than once, as they reflect on their actions in this slightly hysterical fever dream of self-aggrandisement. They say they want to be able to tell their story, a story they feel they weren't allowed to tell before, but now seem to tell professionally for a living. There are no major revelations here, nothing so incendiary that it will cancel King Charles's coronation next year; in fact, certain quotes are becoming a bit pat. The first three episodes cover their early courtship up to the eve of their wedding, and are a mix of melodramatically soundtracked, soft-focused photo montages, doe-eyed soppiness and hollow self-mythologising. But with another instalment released next week, focusing on the wedding and the couple's subsequent spectacular exit, there may still be bombshells on the way. A disclaimer tells us that all interviews were completed by August 2022, before the death of the Queen - but perhaps a mention will have been crowbarred in, last minute?
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