What Meghan Markle’s ratings disaster means for her future

Meghan Markle’s Netflix cooking show plunged 633 places in the Netflix charts, pushing her out of the top 1,000 shows watched in the second half of 2025 and posing major questions about her future as a TV producer.

With Love, Meghan season one was derided by critics and was only the 389th most-watched show on Netflix in the first half of the year.

If that ranking seems tough, though, spare a thought for where Meghan stands after season two and her holiday special, released ahead of Christmas, neither of which made the top 1,000 in the second half of the year.

Why It Matters

The Duchess of Sussex threw herself into a complete rebrand in 2025 as she pivoted into being a lifestyle influencer through With Love, Meghan, and her related online shop As Ever. These were complemented by a podcast about business, called Confessions of a Female Founder.

However, the reviews were brutal across both U.S. and British publications, sounding a major warning sign that her re-invention may have been stalling.

Page Six reported this week that With Love is not set to be renewed for a third season, though it may come back for further holiday specials.

With Love, Meghan‘s Netflix Rankings

With Love season one, released in March 2025, was viewed 5.3 million times, putting it in 389th place in the first half of 2025, putting it just behind Peaky Blinders season two, released 11 years earlier in 2014.

Season two of With Love was then released in August last year and was viewed 2 million times, plunging it into 1,224th, one place behind Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir season two, part two.

With Love, Meghan: Holiday Celebration was viewed 2.4 million times and came in position 1,022, one place behind stand-up comedian Leanne Morgan’s 2023 show I’m Every Woman.

Meghan’s 2025 rebrand was supposed to move her past the backlash that engulfed Harry and Meghan at the start of 2023 when their first Netflix series, Harry & Meghan, coupled with the prince’s book Spare, led to allegations the couple were repeatedly attacking the royals for profit.

However, reviewers appeared unpersuaded even when the first season dropped. The Guardian described season two as “so boring, so contrived, so effortfully whimsical that, do you know what? In the end, it does become almost fascinating.”

Variety‘s review of season one carried the headline, “With Love, Meghan Is a Montecito Ego Trip Not Worth Taking,” while the copy read: “With Love, Meghan is made with a great deal of love in the sense that the greatest love of all is the one that a person has for herself.”

And Vulture‘s review read: “With Love, Meghan is an utterly deranged bizarro world voyage into the center of nothing, a fantastical monument to the captivating power of watching one woman decorate a cake with her makeup artist while communicating solely through throw-pillow adages about joy and hospitality.”

What It Means for Meghan

With the data now backing up the critics, Meghan and Harry’s future as TV producers hangs in the balance. They have projects on the go still, with a TV adaptation of Carley Fortune’s romance novel Meet Me at the Lake in the pipeline.

The project was announced in 2023, and there has been little concrete news to demonstrate progress; however, the jury will likely remain out for quite some time.

Elsewhere, Meghan is expected to make her first post-royal return to acting in a walk-on part, Close Personal Friends, a comedy about a famous couple who make friends with a normal couple, which stars Lily Collins, Brie Larson, Jack Quaid, and Henry Golding.

So if things go well, Meghan could still try to return to the career she left behind—with a possible new series of Suits, also a hypothetical possibility. If those avenues were to close, though, it could in the long term mean an end to Harry and Meghan’s much vaunted careers as TV producers.

Another big question is whether her As Ever lifestyle business takes off, with a significant debate still surrounding the performance of the company so far.

A website glitch recently accidentally revealed her stock totals, and if she can sell the inventory she had at the time in full, it would make her a cool $21.8 million. Of course, her biggest critics have been noisily speculating that she won’t.

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