Meghan Markle received a major blow from viewers who appear to have delivered a brutal verdict about the second season of her Netflix show, weeks before it was even released. Netflix dropped the latest teaser on Tuesday ahead of its release on August 26, showing the Duchess of Sussex talking about cooking and hosting tips along a new guest line-up featuring some of her closest Hollywood friends.
Celebrities in With Love, Meghan season two include US model and TV personality Chrissy Teigen and Queer Eye star Tan France, as well as podcaster Jay Shetty and his cookbook author wife Radhi Devlukia. Also included are chefs Samin Nosrat, Clare Smyth, Christina Tosi, Jose Andres, and David Chang, and Meghan’s close friends, make-up entrepreneur Jamie Kern Lima, pilates instructor Heather Dorak, and makeup artist Daniel Martin.
But viewers have already given a brutal verdict for Meghan’s latest offering, two weeks before it’s even aired.
On Netflix’s official YouTube channel, where the streamer also uploaded the new teaser trailer, viewers can give a video a thumbs up or a thumbs down, which usually indicates how well a video is perceived.
The latest trailer’s figures show a disheartening outcome for the Duchess, as her teaser has gathered a whooping 11,000 thumbs down and a measly 1,6000 thumbs up in just 14 hours since being uploaded.
With Love, Meghan’s trailer, which is set to the soundtrack of Bobby Day’s upbeat Rockin’ Robin, showed Meghan cooking, baking and crafting with her celebrity friends and saying: “I love the idea of just spending time together … and finding new ways to show people you care.”
She added while being shown wrapping a gift: “There are easy ways to show up, lovingly.”
It comes as the Duke of Duchess of Sussex announced on Monday a “multi-year, first-look deal for film and television projects,” in contrast to their reported £74 million contract five years ago.
Season one of With Love, Meghan was savaged by critics.
One review in The Guardian described it as a “gormless lifestyle filler” and “so pointless it might be the Sussexes’ last TV show”. The series has a 3.2 rating out of 10 on imdb.com.
Netflix said at the time that the second season had already finished filming.
