With Love, Meghan: Screen Queen goes in to bat for Meghan Markle’s new show

With Love, Meghan

Wednesday, streaming on Netflix

It’s being called “tone deaf”, “out of touch” and “unrelatable”. Hardly surprising really, because Meghan Markle’s new cooking series, a show being dubbed as a new genre of lifestyle programming, “blending practical how-to’s and candid conversation with friends, new and old” is a show from . . . Meghan Markle.

And we all HATE Meghan Markle! Meghan Markle is literally the worst! Why? Well, we’re not too sure. But something, something “royal betrayal”, something, something “not the done thing”, something, something “got him in her clutches”.

Oh honestly — enough!

If this woman irks you, or you have a problem with her latest TV venture, it’s time to start asking yourself some serious questions.

Because honestly, irritating and smug though she may well be, Meghan Markle has done absolutely nothing to you — she’s just out there, frolicking in her pristine veggie patch, gathering honey from her own personal apiary, cooking up delicious-looking meals for US comedian Mindy Kaling and others, and generally living her best life.

Building herself an empire not too dissimilar to the one her famous husband’s family profited off for all those years, one might even say?

Shoosh — we don’t talk about that.

Even if this is the most colossal bit of naval-gazing, ego-stroking fluff (it may well be — Netflix didn’t offer advance screeners), I am going to watch the hell out of this. I am on a one-woman crusade to game the Netflix algorithm and show Markle some love — because anyone who has had to endure the level of vile hate-mongering she’s withstood these past few years deserves my support.

Hand me my gingham apron — I’m going to war for this woman.

Just let me finish baking her home-grown foccacia first . . .

Severance season 2

Friday, streaming on Apple TV Plus

This show might be the best piece of television I’ve seen in the past decade. I don’t say this lightly — I have, after all, watched an ungodly amount of TV in that time.

But this stands as a beacon — it’s THAT good.

A word of warning though: whatever you do, do not go into the second season of this show unacquainted with the first. In fact, I’d go as far as to say don’t dip back in unless you’ve done a recent rewatch of season one: a LOT has happened in the three years since this show first dropped and a refresher is a must.

This is a spectacularly good return, and rest assured, viewers will get at least some answers. Incredible television.

Miriam Margolyes in New Zealand

Sunday, 7.30pm on ABC

One woman meme machine Miriam Margolyes is back being naughty and making us titter — this time in New Zealand, where she’s temporarily relocated for a movie. Adore this little lady.

Leguizamo Does America

Tuesday, 9.20pm, SBS Viceland

I’ve loved John Leguizamo ever since I saw him in Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo and Juliet. In this series, he’s traversing America, starting off in his home town of New York, to find out how Latinos have shaped America. Worth a look.

Molly-Mae: Behind It All

Friday, streaming on Prime Video

I feel weirdly protective of this British reality TV poppet, so you best believe I’ll be tuning in as she “takes viewers beyond the headlines to uncover the real Molly-Mae”. Will tea be spilt? Probably not. Will this be a PR puff piece? Almost certainly. Regardless — count me in.