Admittedly, it's Full of Nonsense, Over-the-Top Hospitality and Self-Help Jargon. Yet I Truly Cherish Meghan's Holiday Special.
No considering the season, it's perpetually hunting season for scrutiny on the Meghan Markle's televisual offering, With Love, Meghan. Commentators, expert and amateur alike, have hardly ever agreed so completely as when eagerly tearing the program's first and second seasons to pieces. The prevailing view was that a more egregious regal scandal had hardly ever taken place than the notorious snack re-labeling incident.
Currently, in the spirit of a holiday maverick, she has returned for another round with a "Christmas Special" (also known as a Christmas special). Yet now, things have shifted. The standard components viewers are accustomed to – psychobabble word salads, extreme hosting – persist, but framed of a Christmas special, the purpose becomes clear. The elements have slid into place; it's a ideal seasonal storm.
At this stage, Meghan has become the oddball family member at Christmas celebrations everywhere – providing unasked-for guidance, and contributing the occasional strange exclamation. ("I love spinach!" … "A tradition has to have a beginning." … "A tree is part of my memory and love of the holiday season.") She's quite a personality, but her aura is known and oddly reassuring. And she looks content; she's inflicting any harm.
She is aware her every micro expression, utterance and look will be analyzed and judged, but nonetheless looks unburdened and serenely untroubled.
Maybe this is the first occasion in history where that well-worn saying – "Ignore them, they're just jealous" – may well be true. The reason is, let's face it, everything in Meghan's Holiday Celebration truly is delightful. Admittedly, it's all cringily ultra-extra, foolishness and extravagant – but is that not exactly what the holiday season is for? And the talk she's talking might be ridiculous, but the example she sets seems authentically impeccably styled.
Anything she attempts, she executes with style. Her culinary efforts looks delicious, the wreath she crafts is stunning, her presents are almost too pretty to tear into. Nothing is mediocre or aesthetically displeasing – even the way she secures her apron is artful and chic. She doesn't toss a meal in the oven, it "takes a twirl", and she folds wrapping paper like an paper-folding expert. She also seems to be completely savoring herself the entire time. How could any skeptical viewer not be won over, overcome by seasonal cheer and left with a intense desire for personalized Christmas crackers or a vegetable display where greens is positioned in the shape of a wreath?
Meghan used to pretend for a living, naturally, but nonetheless, after the level of attention she has weathered since she started dating Prince Harry, even a hypothetical offspring of Meryl Streep and Judi Dench would find it hard to appear this authentically. Her unwillingness to change or even tone down her shtick, regardless of it being so constantly, globally mocked, is oddly heartening. In our volatile world, here is something we can depend on: Meghan will be like this, whatever happens. We will consistently know where we are with her.
If you're remaining skeptical of what she's selling, a thought that will undoubtedly come as a comfort: you aren't required to. There isn't mandatory conscription these days, and were it to return, it would be doubtful to include viewing With Love, Meghan: Holiday Celebration. If, however, you choose to watch and are consumed by longing about her flawless Christmas, you can take solace either. Whether you're a royal or a office worker, no kid completely grasps the dedication and labor their mother puts in in December. So you can take heart by imagining her children's faces when they unfold a handwritten message that says, 'I love you because you are brave,' from a DIY festive calendar, in place of a sweet treat.
