‘With Love, Meghan’ is A Show About Vessels

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Meghan Markle in Netflix’s With Love, Meghan. Photo: Netflix.

I got motion sickness from the agenda of a single episode of With Love, Meghan. In the new Netflix series, ex-royal Meghan Markle is joined by friends for various domestic pursuits. She’s a cheerier Martha Stewart, I guess, or a more chic HGTV host.

If you don’t like Meghan Markle making bath salts, maybe you’ll like her making beeswax candles! If you don’t like her making beeswax candles, surely you’ll like her arranging “good morning and good night moments” (a bud vase) for a houseguest? And if none of that appeals to you, she’ll also take a cob of dried corn, put it in a brown paper sack, pop it in the microwave for two minutes to make popcorn that she’ll finish with truffle oil and salt. With Love, Meghan’s pilot, “Hello, Honey,” is 38 minutes that feels like running circuits; you’re back at the starting line of a new…