Netflix’s Worst Holiday Special? We Suffer Through “With Love, Meghan”

This video is part of These Two Idiots, a series where my wife Ruth and I watch movies and specials together, record our immediate reactions, and then I edit the best moments into a fast, joke-heavy review. It’s loose, honest, and very much built around the idea that watching something bad together can actually be fun, especially when the thing you’re watching seems completely unaware of how bad it is.

This particular episode focuses on With Love, Meghan: Holiday Celebration, a Netflix holiday special that somehow manages to combine enormous wealth, endless resources, and absolutely no self-awareness. It’s a cooking show where the host doesn’t appear to know how to cook, a lifestyle special that feels aggressively staged, and a holiday celebration that’s completely divorced from how actual humans live.

So Why Isn’t It on YouTube?

Despite being a clear example of fair use: short clips, heavily edited, used exclusively for commentary, criticism, and review, the video was blocked and my appeal was rejected. In all my years of making satirical reviews, this is the first time that’s happened.

What We Didn’t Even Talk About

What makes the copyright strike especially ridiculous is how restrained the video actually is.

We didn’t spend time diagnosing Meghan Markle as a narcissist, even though the entire special feels engineered to place her at the exact center of every moment. We didn’t dig into the endless, well-documented drama surrounding her public image. We didn’t re-litigate her break with the royal family or speculate about motives or grudges.

We focused on the thing in front of us: the holiday special itself. What it shows. How it presents her. How bizarrely disconnected it feels from reality.

We also didn’t harp on the fact that she was excommunicated from the royal family and can no longer call herself a princess, even though she still insists on using the title “Duchess,” despite not living in, governing, or seemingly having any connection to the place attached to that title.

And honestly? I’m never calling her that.

Meghan, we live in America. You chose to move to America. We don’t recognize kings here, let alone a duchess of a place you don’t even live. You’re not royalty. You’re Meg from Montecito. That’s it. That’s the title.

None of that even made it into the video.

The review sticks to what’s on screen: an aggressively staged holiday special, hosted by someone with infinite resources and absolutely nothing meaningful to say. If that level of criticism is enough to trigger a copyright takedown, it says far more about the fragility of the brand than it does about the video.

The Problem With Fame You Can’t Control

The core of the video isn’t just “this cooking show is bad.” It’s about how out of touch Meghan Markle comes across and how that disconnect seems inseparable from how criticism of her work is handled.

This is someone who clearly wants the benefits of fame: attention, prestige, relevance, cultural importance. But when that attention turns negative: when people joke, criticize, or simply don’t buy what’s being sold, the response isn’t reflection or growth. It’s control.

Using wealth, influence, and systems like automated copyright enforcement to suppress criticism doesn’t make the criticism go away. It just confirms the criticism.

To me, Meghan’s public persona feels intensely curated and deeply artificial. Everything is polished, staged, and focus-grouped. The only thing she can’t hide is how little self-awareness she has and how self-important she thinks she is. The irony is that authenticity is the one thing audiences actually want, and it’s the one thing she refuses to offer.

That’s why the video hit a nerve.