‘With Love, Meghan’ Is a Montecito Ego Trip Not Worth Taking: TV Review
variety.comDaniel D'Addario Chief TV Critic In the first episode of Netflix’s new series “With Love, Meghan,” the series’ host is visited by a friend from a past life.
Make-up artist Daniel Martin has known Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, “for the before, during and after, shall we say,” she tells the camera.
In other words, he’s been around since she was simply the television actress Meghan Markle (a name, she later tells guest Mindy Kaling, she no longer uses), before the media circus that attended her wedding to Prince Harry and their subsequent break from the royal family, up to the present day in her life in glam exile in Montecito.
A friend of such long standing deserves to be celebrated, and so, over the course of a whirlwind episode, Meghan prepares “teabags” of bath salts; arranges flowers; harvests honey; makes a pasta dish, crudité, and beeswax candles; frosts a cake; and brews “this elixir that I think will be so healing” for Martin’s allergies.
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