Monday, December 19, 2022

Something someone else wrote about Harry and Meghan which I haven't seen


I read this and, for a minute, I really wanted to see it:

Netflix’s Harry and Meghan has been billed as a documentary, but it is clear that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have never watched that form of the genre.  Hardly surprising: Prince Harry is unworldly and semi-literate and Meghan can hardly count herself as a cerebral giant. Indulgent, narcissistic and manipulative, the Prince and his Hollywood companion have done a spectacular job of undermining any reserves of sympathy they might have had in their freezing out from the Windsor universe.

Much has and will be made of the various personal details the Netflix production is promoting.  The dominant theme is blame and blamelessness, enriched by a layering of score-settling.  Unaware by the implications of her own conduct, Meghan herself observes that, “Most people need to find someone to blame.”

The couple are, naturally, clean, washed, pristine; the laundry of everybody else, from the media to the ghastly relatives, is not.  “I believe my wife suffered a miscarriage because of what the (Daily) Mail did.  I watched the whole thing,” states a forlorn Harry.

Read the whole thing here.

After watching some of the former rich kids in the 7 Up series and reading attacks on Prince Charles, I realized that I approved of self-pity in the British upper crust. The poor devils get no sympathy from anyone else.

But this thing just sounds like Reality TV, about rich people who don't deserve to be rich.

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