The long-awaited premiere of the six-part documentary “Harry and Meghan” took place on the Netflix streaming platform on December 8. On the day of the premiere, the so-called first volume, the first three chapters, was published. On the Internet, they were expected to be listed in detail, mainly highlighting all the shortcomings.
“The Harry & Meghan review is so nauseating that I almost vomited up my breakfast,” wrote columnist Lucy Mangan in the British edition. Guard.
colleagues Independent they were more subdued: Harry and Meghan: candid, self-deprecating, and wildly fascinating.” The most accurate description of the audience’s reaction was the title of the leading American publication on the film industry. Hollywood Reporter: “The movie is too long, but it tells very little.”
The first episode focuses on Harry’s childhood, meeting his future wives in London, spontaneous travels to Botswana, and a relationship that started in a tourist tent. The second part talked about Meghan Markle’s childhood, racist comments about her during the engagement, and all kinds of jokes on social networks about the origin of the future duchess. The third part is the story of British slavery and its central role in the existence of the monarchy, Prince Harry’s happy years in Africa and in the army, the separation of the Meghan Markle family due to behavior on the eve of their wedding. from his father and half-sister.
“But what do we have left in the end? Asks Lucy Mangan in The Guardian. “Exactly the same story we already know, told in the way we expect it to be from the people who tell it.” Meanwhile, the Sussexes’ close friends and mother, Meghan Markle, were among the number of companion narrators.
The fact that Meghan Markle and Prince Harry saw themselves as victims hurt many critics.
The truth is, in the movie, the Duke of Sussex talks about his wife as a woman who must sacrifice everything to be a part of his family, and then leaves life in London for the safety of his wife and two children, Archie and Lilibet. .
“The biggest victims in the world are Meghan Markle and Prince Harry, an incredibly wealthy, surprisingly privileged, highly narcissistic couple. If you don’t believe me, ask them!” – wrote in a column for Sun journalist Piers Morgan, one of the main enemies of the royal couple.
Journalist Finance Times Henry Mance was more disappointed by the blandness of the Sussex documentary, which was supposed to be explosive and private stories about life in the Windsor family.
“Is this ‘Netflix Global Event’ comparable to, say, Princess Diana? [интервью] Panorama, on Newsnight the conversation in which Prince Andrew, or even Harry and Meghan, allegedly talked to Oprah Winfrey about a member of the royal family’s child’s skin color? To put it bluntly, no,” Mans said.
According to him, the Dukes of Sussex decided to play the ingenious marketing ploy of Netflix’s main rule of “don’t tell in an hour if it can be extended to a few hours” and received $1 million for it.
What many critics agree on is that the couple is truly deeply in love with each other. Remembering the Windsors’ first encounter with Meghan, Harry said, “They might be surprised that the redhead got such a beautiful woman.”
The film was accompanied by numerous exclusive photos of the couple from Prince Harry’s parties with his cousins, their family life in California, their immigration to Canada, royal trips and nap time. Not without diaries of Harry’s childhood from the time Princess Diana was discharged after giving birth to study at Eton College.
During the recording of the interview, the Duke of Sussex confessed his love to his mother several times, but did not say a word about his father. Meghan Markle, meanwhile, marveled at how formal everything has become in the royal family. As it turns out, rituals are truly a way of life for Windsors. According to the Suits actress, she first noticed this when she met Prince William and Kate Middleton at her home in England, barefoot and wearing ripped jeans.
“In other words, they [Виндзоры] Journalist John Anderson is tough people in or out of working hours, which of course is not the most pleasant, but the royal brand is unlikely to be beheaded, ”concludes journalist John Anderson WSJ.
Harry talked about what it was like to “walk” at official exits and even at home his grandmother Queen Queen II. This ignorance of Meghan Markle’s core behavioral contexts in the royal family has prompted The Independent journalists to wonder at what points in the film the “couple was naive or insincere”.
To sum up, the documentary “Harry and Meghan” received fierce reviews, as did the final season of “The Crown.” Daniel D’Addario Variation He didn’t miss the opportunity to compare the two Netflix projects: “Like the last, painfully boring season of The Crown, the narrative seems to have stalled due to a lack of desire to find or find another that we haven’t heard of yet.”