The penalties of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s modern-day Netflix pass may want to be big - and see them totally outcast by way of the Queen.
Oh irony, you are a merciless mistress. Thursday in Sydney broke with crisp sunlight and blue skies, precisely the identical climate as 4 years ago to the day when Harry and Meghan, Duke and Duchess of Sussex wed in Windsor.
What more fantastic day then for the world to find out that the Sussexes, ostensibly now freed from the tweedy demands of working royaldom, have been taking pictures an “‘at-home’ docuseries” for Netflix which has “Hollywood insiders … abuzz about the show.”
According to Page Six, now not only has a TV crew been following the couple for Harry’s Heart of Invictus, a documentary about the wearing championship for wounded former and energetic carrier personnel, however they have also been doing so for an “‘at-home with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex-style’ docuseries.”
“The cameras have been allowed at the back of the scenes at their home in Montecito, Calif., and joined the Sussexes on their day out to NYC final September,” claimed the report.
“I think it’s truthful to say that Netflix is getting its pound of flesh,” a quite placed Hollywood insider advised Page Six.
But c’mon, let’s call a spade a spade here. No amount of intricate nomenclature can actually disguise the truth that what the duke and duchess are working on sounds, primarily based on this report, exactly like a reality TV show.
While Netflix and Team Sussex have but to comment on this report, if Page Six is on the money, this would have to constitute one of the quickest falls in British royal records considering that Lady Jane Grey managed to remaining solely nine days as Queen of England. (Her stint used to be so brief they didn’t even manage to get a coronation in.)
Dignity, I infrequently knew thee.
In only four years, the Sussexes have long past from being world darlings, resoundingly adored with desk drawers full of enterprising plans for charity projects, to reducing themselves to proto-Kardashians.
In the phrases of an Archewell intern, there is a lot to unpack here.
Firstly, this is simply a bit sad. What this move lays bare is simply how determined they would seem to be for money and to prop up their celebrity.
Harry and Meghan may spend hours writing press releases about how they are going to help trade the world but said alternate has so some distance yet to materialise. What they have managed instead, primarily based on this Page Six report, to get executed is shoot untold hours of behind-the-scenes footage. (Oh goodie, who else can’t wait to tune in to watch the Duke of Montecito practise his downward canine or see how tons vegan latte spon-con they can cram in?)
Just to get especially clichéd, moves talk louder than words, and no quantity of shoehorning their titles into a media launch can compensate for the lack of tangible action. Self-aggrandising declarations can solely ever get them so far.
When the couple announced their pronounced $140 million deal with the streaming giant back in 2020, they promised “impactful content material that unlocks action.” Either a) this was a truly faulty furphy and they have now realised the solely way to maintain Netflix candy is to let a digicam crew in their front door or b) this was the graph all along.
Secondly, there is no coming lower back from this. They would possibly be getting paid millions, which would no doubt come as a comfort now that they have to pay for their very own warm and cold strolling bodyguards, but it does irrevocably take their brand from globetrotting philanthropist territory to Kardashian-esque depths.
While their bank bills might revel in a fine boon, their carefully cultivated picture and credibility will really take a hit.
The trouble with going down this route is that once they do this, they will be continually tarred with the fact TV brush.
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