# Is "Harry and Meghan" worth my time? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** netflix, documentary-bio\ **Created:** [December 9, 2022, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-harry-and-meghan-worth-my-time/976269 "2022-12-09T18:27:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2022, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-harry-and-meghan-worth-my-time/976269/61 "2022-12-16T20:44:11Z")
Going back to the op: i doubt it’s worth watching. I’m an American and not terribly invested in the British royal family. I enjoyed “the Crown”, because it was good TV. I tried “Harry and Meghan” because Netflix recommended it, and turned it off after about 10 minutes. It starts in the middle of…something, and i guess if you followed them, maybe you’d have some clue what was going on. I didn’t. Lots of attractive photos with blurred backgrounds, if you are into that kind of thing. I feel a little sorry for the two of them. It must suck to grow up in the royal family, and it certainly sucks to lose your mother. And it certainly sucks to have racist in-laws who are “concerned” about the color of their grandchildren. But i don’t care about them nearly enough to watch this show. ---
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2022, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-harry-and-meghan-worth-my-time/976269/62 "2022-12-16T20:48:26Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > It must suck to grow up in the royal family, and it certainly sucks to lose your mother. And it certainly sucks to have racist in-laws who are “concerned” about the color of their grandchildren. Only two of those things are demonstrably true though. The third one is a vague accustation against someone who they know will never answer back. We know pretty much nothing about the incident in question other than what Harry and Meghan have chosen to imply. As is often the case in something like this, the hearsay becomes the fact. ---
**Author:** ![slash2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@slash2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slash2k)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2022, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-harry-and-meghan-worth-my-time/976269/63 "2022-12-16T20:59:25Z")
> [@hajario](#): > > Had he not been his father’s son, he probably would have had a very successful career as a military officer, something that he loved. The tabloids reporting on his whereabouts destroyed that. What the fuck is he supposed to do? He had two deployments in Afghanistan. The first one ended in early 2008 when the tabs reported his whereabouts, but he returned a couple of years later in a new role (Apache helicopter pilot); both [the Brits](https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-19516079) and the Taliban announced he was there in Sept 2012, but [he served his planned deployment](https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/prince-harry-returns-from-afghanistan-deployment-1.1385906) and left Afghanistan in January 2013. He left the military two years later, in June 2015, having spent some time in a staff officer role in London working on the Invictus Games and other projects working with injured personnel and commemorative projects. I’m not sure this military career and timeline supports the notion that tabloid reporting in 2008 “destroyed” a career that lasted nearly a decade past that. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2022, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-harry-and-meghan-worth-my-time/976269/64 "2022-12-19T12:11:52Z")
It’s probably impossible to prepare someone for marrying into the royal family. > [@Mk\_VII](#): > > He is benefiting from being his father’s son, and trading on it - his very modest educational attainments and career achievements would not otherwise merit the amount of attention people pay to what he says and does. That’s true of all the Royals, really. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_was\_in\_Saudi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b77776/32.png) [@Paul\_was\_in\_Saudi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_was_in_Saudi)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2022, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-harry-and-meghan-worth-my-time/976269/65 "2022-12-19T12:48:07Z")
> [@chela](#): > > Meghan who is a white presenting biracial successful actor and spokesperson who depicts herself as some as underprivileged, maligned innocent who carries and nurtures such deep resentment and anger towards her in-laws is cringy As we live in a world where one may choose one’s gender, it seems strange object to someone who does not meet your racial requirements. ---
**Author:** ![SanVito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sanvito/32/2805_2.png) [@SanVito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanVito)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2022, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-harry-and-meghan-worth-my-time/976269/66 "2022-12-19T13:10:27Z")
I’ve finished the series, and can now summarise so you don’t have to > We are the greatest love story ever told > The press are awful human beings > The Firm told us to suck it up > The family are quite formal > William shouted at me once To quote a review from the BBC: > There was no real inside gossip, nobody was named as a racist, the accusations were not catastrophic. These were stones thrown at the palace windows - not a brick put through one. > > Neither Buckingham Palace nor Kensington Palace are responding to the series, which is a gauge that the series contained nothing so awful that they needed to challenge it. It’s a bit of a struggle to understand what the point of it was. Aside from being a cash cow. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2022, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-harry-and-meghan-worth-my-time/976269/67 "2022-12-19T14:36:54Z")
[Moderating] This is completely off-topic and irrelevant. Drop it, now. Everyone else, do not reply to this here. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2022, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-harry-and-meghan-worth-my-time/976269/68 "2022-12-19T15:21:41Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > > [@chela](#): > > > > Meghan who is a white presenting biracial successful actor and spokesperson who depicts herself as some as underprivileged, maligned innocent who carries and nurtures such deep resentment and anger towards her in-laws is cringy to the extreme. > > As a biracial person who has tried to succeed in life but has had to deal with a whole lot of shit in my life, I find this objectional, factually incorrect and offensive. She has been vilified for no reason other than, well, what exactly? I mean, here you are maligning her for. . . again, what exactly? Seriously, is she somehow disqualified from speaking about the public and private abuse she has experienced? ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2022, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-harry-and-meghan-worth-my-time/976269/69 "2022-12-19T15:28:21Z")
> [@chela](#): > > Meghan who is a white presenting biracial successful actor and spokesperson who depicts herself as some as underprivileged, maligned innocent who carries and nurtures such deep resentment and anger towards her in-laws is cringy to the extreme. > [@Biggirl](#): > > As a biracial person who has tried to succeed in life but has had to deal with a whole lot of shit in my life, I find this objectional, factually incorrect and offensive. **She has been vilified for no reason other than, well, what exactly?** (bolding mine) It’s simple - chela is saying that in addition to being a whiner, Meghan is being _uppity_. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2022, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-harry-and-meghan-worth-my-time/976269/70 "2022-12-19T15:39:11Z")
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**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2022, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-harry-and-meghan-worth-my-time/976269/71 "2022-12-19T15:39:35Z")
**Warning** for Chela for derailing thread with strange racist post. I’m spinning most of this mess off to the Pit. You do this often enough that a Modnote will not suffice. * * * * * * Actually, this thread is just a disaster and not about the documentary. @ZonexandScout, should I move this poor thread to the Pit or leave it closed? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-harry-and-meghan-worth-my-time/976269.md?page=3)