What’s cooking over at Netflix? Another hate-watch.

Not Our Jam

Of all the problems plaguing the new Netflix series With Love, Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex’s fixation on jam is only the beginning

By Stuart Heritage

Photo illustration by Chop Choppish Shop

Realistically, you are not going to watch With Love, Meghan. You are busy, life is short, and you don’t want your final thought on earth to be one of regret that you once spent several hours watching Meghan Markle make a daisy chain. Luckily for you, I have no such qualms about dying miserable, so I watched With Love, Meghan in its entirety, purely so I can tell you everything that happens on it. You’re welcome.

Episode 1

Meghan Markle is getting ready for her friend Daniel to visit her house. Except she states up front that the place they’re filming in isn’t her house and, at least from her description, Daniel sounds like her employee. She makes him a jar of homemade bath salts and prepares him a tray of crudités. Daniel arrives and is blown away by the food. “Every time I come to your house I always gain 10 pounds,” he says, delicately nibbling a single pea from a pod, in a house that’s not her house.