Meghan Markle misses out on major Netflix milestone as true show ratings revealed

Meghan Markle’s Netflix show has failed to break into the top 10 shows on the streaming platform after suffering dismal ratings for the second series - despite the first season appearing in the top 10 list after its release in March.

The second instalment of With Love, Meghan was released last week, and just hours after its premiere, was widely panned by critics who shared their scathing two-star reviews.

Now, Netflix has confirmed that the second season of the show failed to bring in a significant number of viewers around the world, with the programme not featuring in the top 10 in the UK, America, or any other country.

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Eight new episodes of With Love, Meghan dropped on Netflix on August 26 and had six days to rack up viewers before the streaming giant released its most-popular list for the week.

The programme was buried by the likes of season two of Wednesday, the new series Untamed, and a documentary about US reality show The Biggest Loser, which all brought in millions of viewers.

While Netflix doesn’t release weekly viewing data for shows outside of its top 10, for With Love, Meghan to have missed the list, it had to have been watched by a half-million fewer viewers than its first season in its first week.

When the programme first premiered back in March 2025, it racked up 2.6 million viewers in the first week, but only saw 5.3 million views before Netflix released their semi-annual What We Watched report, which ranked the show #383 out of all their new releases.

The huge drop in popularity of Meghan’s show comes after a source told Parade that the future of the show could be in jeopardy after failing to pull in an audience and is “not doing well” for Netflix.

“People who worked on the show don’t think it will be picked up for another season,” an insider told Parade. “It’s not doing well or what the network would have hoped it would do.” The source added: “It’s not the success they wanted it to be.”

The uncertain future of the show comes after season two of the programme was savagely panned by critics, with major publications calling it everything from “needy” to “‘narcissistic”.

Despite the line-up of celebrity figures featuring on the show, critics have shared their scathing reviews of the second series, with The Telegraph giving the lifestyle a two-star rating, panning the season as “marginally less mad but more needy” than its first instalment.

The review went on to call Meghan a “Montecito Marie Antoinette”, and called the series as a whole “boring and at times, pretty insufferable”.

The sentiment was echoed by The Guardian, who dismissed the show as a “gormless lifestyle filler”. The publication also gave the second series a mere two stars, as the review went on to say how Meghan’s show is “so painfully contrived that it’s genuinely fascinating,” before questioning whether “Meghan’s impulse to sprinkle flowers over everything is a choice or a compulsion”.