Meghan Markle's new show is charming! I wish she'd make a cookbook of all the things she makes. Also wish I had a tub so I could try making my own bath salts. The show is light and sweet. It's pretty shallow, but it hits those same chill vibes as GBBO. I like having 40 min of calm. - ThreadSky

bookjockeyalex.bsky.social • 17 days ago

Meghan Markle's new show is charming! I wish she'd make a cookbook of all the things she makes. Also wish I had a tub so I could try making my own bath salts. The show is light and sweet. It's pretty shallow, but it hits those same chill vibes as GBBO. I like having 40 min of calm.

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paveldmitrievich.bsky.social•17 days ago

I just like the vibe that Meghan and Harry have, Their kids are going to have a normal childhood and real friends.

zerocrossing.bsky.social•17 days ago

You should binge All Creatures Great and Small. It’s like a hug from an old British lady.

marspidermonkey.bsky.social•17 days ago

I have mixed opinions. I enjoyed it and am totally the sort of person who wants to make flowery shortbread cookies and flower sprinkles, but there’s also some parts that came off a little trad-wifey. And very beige.

marspidermonkey.bsky.social•17 days ago

I think the episode where she has chefs teaching her out to make things (especially the Roy Choi one), we’re the strongest.

bookjockeyalex.bsky.social•17 days ago

I don't get the trad wife vibe from it, or at least not in the way trad wife has turned into conservatism. I just see someone who has the time and money to make more things from scratch. And I don't get the sense that she does this all the time and thinks people should.

msxtina.bsky.social•17 days ago

Heck no on the trad wife shit. I think she just wants to make memories for kids. It's so very obvious how much she adores them and just wants them to have a happy, safe childhood. I couldn't stand Mindy, though.

bookjockeyalex.bsky.social•17 days ago

I don't know why people are mad that she's doing it in a staged house instead of her personal home or that she's acting. She's literally an actress and no one wants a whole television crew in their home for months on end, not with small children around. (I do know why - racism.)

marketdoctor.bsky.social•17 days ago

Also sexism (Gadget Man is very up front that it's not the host's house), but probably mostly racism, and a little bit clueless about how small children are/can be.

wendyrmonkey.bsky.social•17 days ago

Imagine when they learn that the GBBO bakers don’t actually live in the tent

bookjockeyalex.bsky.social•17 days ago

huge if true

rosemaryandrock.bsky.social•17 days ago

I think honestly people really want to see inside her house as a prurient thing/to mock them/to fantasize, depending on how they feel about her, and they're butthurt that they don't get to.

msxtina.bsky.social•17 days ago

She doesn't want them in her home because of safety. I love the show.

thatbitchyasian.bsky.social•17 days ago

I wish she spoke up about Palestine but I will say that I could not get through watching that pasta dish from episode one be made, without drooling and craving pasta.

rebeccaroanhorse.bsky.social•17 days ago

Right? Not my normal watch but I found it soothing. Sure it's a bit ridiculous but it's not more so that Martha or any other show in that genre. Ppl just want to hate on her. She's fun!

bookjockeyalex.bsky.social•17 days ago

it's a specific kind of television and is leaning into that. It's not the deepest thing in the world, but who cares.

rebeccaroanhorse.bsky.social•17 days ago

Agreed!

bigsurduluoz.bsky.social•17 days ago

Yeah, I realized the right wingers made a target of her once they discovered her 2015 UN speech on gender equality. Like all prominent women with a voice, she's now deemed unlikable and fake. I found the show to be charming and peaceful and super California, so fuck them.

bookjockeyalex.bsky.social•17 days ago

Oh yeah, it's a whole CA vibe, specifically Santa Barbara/Montecito. And it's not like she's exempt from criticism, but the valid critiques are all drowned out by the virulent misogynoir that it's impossible to have a real conversation.

bklynel.bsky.social•17 days ago

Sometimes, you just need an hour of non-challenging entertainment.

alpha-aurora.bsky.social•17 days ago

I bet she does too😉

bookjockeyalex.bsky.social•17 days ago

I don't know what this is supposed to mean

disabilitystor1.bsky.social•17 days ago

YES. Watching the vicious reviews has been something to behold.

bookjockeyalex.bsky.social•17 days ago

The misogynoir is front and center

disabilitystor1.bsky.social•17 days ago

Its just an excuse to hate on her, tbh. And I have zero interest in defending anyone who would marry a royal, but good god the venom she gets for simply existing

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