Tornado Alley (PROG)

[janice shell]

Imagine a machine gun used as a whipper.

Well, you can whip people with a pistol, so I should think a machine gun would be even more efficient. But ask Liam Neeson if you think he'd have a different opinion.

Is Meghan's cooking show actually poor, or is it some puerile
reaction by some influencers and others allegiance to them.

It got bad reviews, but has been renewed, probably because people like to write pissy reviews:

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/with_love_meghan/s01

Read some of the reviews...

An excerpt from one:

...Well, if you’ve never had that urge, I’ve got some disappointing news: With Love, Meghan may not be the programme for you. Wait, no, actually, it might yet. But not for pleasurable reasons. Only for car crash-TV reasons. It’s like the lifestyle-TV equivalent of one of those rare public appearances by Mark Zuckerberg where he pretends he is not a robot. The harder Meghan tries to persuade us that she is warm, approachable, likeable, normal, homely, the more you’re inclined to suspect the opposite.

In the first episode, the very good friend Meghan has coming to stay at her fake house is no such thing. He’s essentially a cherished pet-cum-minion – the personal make-up artist she has known since even before Suits – whose sole purpose is to go ‘Wow!’, ‘Amazing!’, ‘This is, like, the most incredible home-made jam ever’, while Meghan goes through the motions of pretending to be a domestic goddess...

You almost feel sorry for her. At least you would if you weren’t thinking about all the hapless production team members whose lives were no doubt made a living hell during the making of Operation Make Meghan Seem Nice. It’s as if a rich, connected, bird-eating spider had commissioned itself an eight-part series in which it was to be portrayed throughout as a gambolling, newborn lamb: the challenge was always going to be tricky.

https://archive.is/20250313003737/https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/im-warming-to-meghan-markle-only-joking/#selection-1697.361-1717.431