Meghan Markle’s show “is the most deranged f****** thing I have ever seen,” RuPaul’s Drag Race star Katya Zamolodchikova said.

With Love, Meghan made the Netflix global Top 10, but received numerous scathing reviews in Britain and America, with a Rotten Tomatoes critics score of 36 percent.

Katya added her own take to the mix on X, writing: “This With Love, Meghan show on Netflix is the most deranged f****** thing I have ever seen.”

Why It Matters

Meghan’s new Netflix show was seen as a make-or-break moment for her when it dropped on March 4, but it met with excoriating reviews by American critics.

Zamolodchikova’s assessment is the latest example of a voice from outside the pro-Monarchy British press to take a strong stance against the show.

And that is likely the most concerning thing for the duchess about the launch—it appears to have found her new critics rather than new fans.

What to Know

Meghan’s cooking show was always expected to receive bad reviews in the British press, but it also bombed with outlets including Time, Vanity Fair, Variety and The Economist.

Social media influencers mocked her, including for re-packaging Trader Joe’s Peanut Butter Pretzels in a sandwich bag, which she then labeled.

One viral post on X read: “I’m so glad has a new show on Netflix where I can watch her take pretzels out of a labeled bag and put them into a new bag…then label it. The people’s Martha Stewart!”

Regalrumination.com asked social listening platform Hootsuite to conduct an analysis of the conversation about the show in the three days around its release.

The company established that the balance between positive and negative comments swung hostile overnight U.K. time and while America was awake, appearing to underscore the perception that U.S. audiences were driving the backlash.

What People Are Saying

Variety‘s review: “With Love, Meghan is made with a great deal of love,” it said, “in the sense that the greatest love of all is the one that a person has for herself.”

New York Magazine’s Vulture wrote: “With Love, Meghan is an utterly deranged bizarro world voyage into the center of nothing, a fantastical monument to the captivating power of watching one woman decorate a cake with her makeup artist while communicating solely through throw-pillow adages about joy and hospitality.”

Time‘s review: “Harry and Meghan appear to possess no qualities in enthralling excess. The irony of their endless self-portraiture—her single-season Spotify podcast Archetypes, the couple’s surface-level interactions with the non-Oprah media, the eponymous 2022 Netflix docuseries that also felt like a commercial for their relatability, and now With Love—is that the more they say about themselves, the less real they seem.”

What Happens Next

Meghan has a new podcast coming out, which she is due to release on April 8.

Williams Brown is chief royal correspondent for Regalrumination.com, based in London. You can find him on X, formerly , at and read his stories on Regalrumination.com’s .

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