Meghan Markle has doubled down on promoting her Netflix show despite some scathing reviews after its release on Tuesday.
The Duchess of Sussex is currently in New York and shared a video of the trailer for ‘With Love, Meghan’ playing in Times Square.
Meghan also tagged Times Square, New York City as the location on her Instagram story.
It comes as the earlier reviews of the series have not been positive for the duchess.
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UK publications including The Independent and The Guardian, gave it one out of five stars.
The Telegraph gave the series a marginally better, but still overall disappointing, two out of five stars.
The lifestyle series has received a mere 11 per cent rating on review site Rotten Tomatoes from more than 250 ratings.
On IMDb, the show fares little better with a 2.6 out of 10 from over 1,000 reviews.
Hollywood bible magazine Variety delivered a particularly scathing review of the Duchess of Sussex’s series.
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The delayed series currently sits at number six on Netflix’s top 10 chart despite facing little competition from major releases on the platform this week.
Hollywood bible magazine Variety delivered a particularly scathing review of the Duchess of Sussex’s series.
The publication described it as “a Montecito ego trip not worth taking” in a no-holds-barred critique.
Critics have been unsparing in their assessment of the lifestyle show since its premiere.
Variety’s review continued: “The show plays out like a forced march, one in which Meghan’s guests must, as the price of getting to share an afternoon in a made-for-TV kitchen with her, praise her first.”
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Meghan did not directly address the bad reviews the series received on its launch day.
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The magazine added: “With Love, Meghan is made with a great deal of love in the sense that the greatest love of all is the one that a person has for herself.”
Meghan did not directly address the bad reviews the series received on its launch day.
Instead on Tuesday, the Duchess of Sussex has issued a rallying call to her more than two million Instagram followers.
Meghan wrote on Instagram: “Today is the day! A few BTS snaps + food pictures I took on set for ‘With Love, Meghan’. Come join the party on @Netflix.”