Harry & Meghan

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Season 1
  • Network: Netflix
  • Series Premiere Date: Dec 8, 2022
Season #: 1.5, 1
Metascore
56

Mixed or average reviews - based on 12 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 12
  3. Negative: 1 out of 12
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Critic Reviews

  1. The Guardian
    Reviewed by: Lucy Mangan
    Dec 9, 2022
    60
    In the end – what are we left with? Exactly the same story we always knew, told in the way we would expect to hear it from the people who are telling it.
  2. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Angie Han
    Dec 9, 2022
    50
    It is unsurprising that the portrait ends up a flattering one, sympathetic to their trials and scrupulously respectful of their perspectives. What it does not turn out to be is essential.
  3. IndieWire
    Reviewed by: Ben Travers
    Dec 9, 2022
    42
    It’s a diary entry. Diary entries can be helpful when they provide untold insights into their subjects, but “Harry & Meghan” is merely a long, redundant recap of two very public lives. And absent any challenging questions from outside the couple’s tidy little love bubble, it’s a dull one at that.
  5. Slate
    Reviewed by: Nadira Goffe
    Dec 19, 2022
    40
    There’s little new juicy drama and few shocking reveals. ... What the series does offer, instead, are some underdeveloped attempts at historical racial analysis. ... But the sociohistorical analysis, judged on its own merits, feels lacking.
  6. The Times
    Reviewed by: Carol Midgley
    Dec 9, 2022
    40
    There was nothing “bombshell” or even very new here. It was beautifully shot but it was repetitive, whingy and boring.
  7. Variety
    Reviewed by: Daniel D'Addario
    Dec 9, 2022
    40
    As with the most recent, painfully dull season of “The Crown,” there seems a sort of narrative stuckness, an inability or lack of desire to find the next thing to say that we haven’t yet heard.

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User Score
2.6

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 40 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 40
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 40
  3. Negative: 29 out of 40
  1. base_d
    Dec 11, 2022
    0
    a documentary about 2 people wanting their privacy but filming a documentary. Ummmmm,ok.
  2. DukeJon
    Dec 10, 2022
    0
    Self-obsessed, disingenuous and completely lacking in self awareness, the two privileged millionaire grifters take the Netflix dollar bySelf-obsessed, disingenuous and completely lacking in self awareness, the two privileged millionaire grifters take the Netflix dollar by attacking the press and British monarchy with this completely one-sided "documentary". You know what you're in for when the very first frame, telling you the palace had declined to comment, is a lie. Truth is they were never offered the chance to respond. 3 hours of self-pity and not one single admission on their part that they did anything wrong. Three years after they left they are still banging on about how hard done by they are. Harry is stupid (and thoroughly emasculated), Meghan is a textbook narcissist and as a couple they are dull and sanctimonious. Harry's creepy obsession with his dead mother is off-putting to say the least; a middle aged man who at heart remains the little boy walking behind his mother's coffin. If the British royal family is so racist, why are they clinging on to their titles? It's because without them, nobody would be interested in them.… Full Review »
  3. Matriarc1
    Dec 10, 2022
    8
    Although the episodes so far look like they could use some trimming, the content - especially from Harry has been compelling. I knew littleAlthough the episodes so far look like they could use some trimming, the content - especially from Harry has been compelling. I knew little about Meghan going in but she seems likable and straight forward. Her mother is charming but seems to be holding back. The niece showing up was a surprise.
    Everything seems to circle round to Diana and the way she was hounded, harassed and made miserable by the tabloids. Harry seems to be intent on not letting his family suffer in a like manner. They haven't said (so far) who made the remarks about Archie's skin color Obviously, the trashy tabloids that Harry (rightfully) castigates, have done quite a number on this couple and this is their way of putting the truth out.    … Full Review »
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