A whole political and cultural era is passing, and who better than the Duchess of Sussex as a symbol of all we have left behind <\/p>\n
Are peonies a life philosophy? Are \u201clife philosophies\u201d even philosophy? I have to hold on to the idea that they aren\u2019t, even in the face of a decade or so of Instagram blitzkrieg, most currently in the form of Duchess Meghan\u2019s eight-part new TV show, which dropped on Netflix first thing this morning. With Love, Meghan seems to have migrated fully formed from Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s social media platform on to Ted Sarandos\u2019s streaming service, powered by the hashtags that bypass the need for joined-up sentences, let alone thinking. Or as Her Grace explains: \u201cEveryone\u2019s invited to create wonder in every moment.\u201d This is an offer not even promised by most major religions.<\/p>\n
The mildest way to describe this show is as a ghastly artefact of a particular cultural era that recently met its apocalypse. But more on that later. To anyone who says, \u201cIt\u2019s just meant to be fun\u201d: bullshit. Netflix reportedly paid $100m (\u00a378m) to Prince Harry and the manic pixie dream duchess for an overall deal, so for the streamer it\u2019s meant to make back at least a small amount of the big amount of money they\u2019ve lost, when audiences failed to connect with the Sussex-authored documentaries about global justice activists and polo. For Meghan, it\u2019s supposed to assist her transformation into domestic guru. If you don\u2019t mind arching an eyebrow at the lifestyle lunacies of fellow Montecito resident Gwyneth Paltrow<\/a>, then at least have some consistency and give yourself a pass on this one. This show is sensationally absurd and trite, and if you watch it, you know it.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A whole political and cultural era is passing, and who better than the Duchess of Sussex as a symbol of all we have left behind Are peonies a life philosophy? Are \u201clife philosophies\u201d even philosophy? I have to hold on to the idea that they aren\u2019t, even in the face of a decade or so … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}