Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have blundered their way to another flop, according to critics as they offered savage reviews of their new Netflix show. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are listed as executive producers on ‘Polo’, which started streaming through the platform on Tuesday.

Harry makes a short cameo in the first episode while he and Meghan are seen briefly in episode five and the lack of star power badly impacts on the show, according to critics. The Daily Mail’s Jane Fryer awarded Polo just one star and said it “seems odd that executive producers Harry and Meghan were so desperate to share this ghastly world with the rest of us”.

She brands Harry’s polo chums as “ridiculous” while the show is described as “flat, plodding and really rather boring”. But she reckons the Duke and the team behind Polo may have missed an opportunity to make something more watchable.

Fryer writes: “Awful though it all is, I wonder whether, in the right hands, it could have been fun, guilty pleasure TV – a sort of brilliant mash-up of Rivals, Selling Sunset and Made in Wrexham, that made us shout the telly in horrified joy.”

The Telegraph’s Ed Power gave the show two stars and said there was “not enough of the Sussexes to make this anything other than a dull indulgence about a rich person’s pursuit”. He added: “This horsey hiccup is another bad neigh day for the Sussexes and their media ambitions.”

And even the Guardian, which you might expect to be more sympathetic to the couple, panned the show with reviewer Stuart Heritage awarding it just two stars. The problem, he argues, is the sport itself and the lack of underdog stories that were present in other Netflix sporting documentaries.

He writes: “…polo is the stupidest, most obnoxious sport known to humanity. It’s the playground of the rich. It’s a sport where fixtures are chosen by popping confetti-filled balloons, like a nightmarish gender reveal party. It requires incredible wealth, usually inherited, which means you could tip a bucket of paint over the entire sport and not hit a single person who even remotely qualified as an underdog.”

He concludes: “…Polo looks destined to fall through the submenus into obscurity at the speed of light. And rightly so. It’s clattering and niche, and feels like a spoof documentary designed to play on screens in the background of episodes of Succession.”

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