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Harry & Meghan
Harry & Meghan is an American documentary series streaming on Netflix, starring Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex. The series has six parts and covers the couple's relationship from their early courtship to their decision to step back as working members of the British royal family and their subsequent activities. It also includes interviews with family, friends, historians, and journalists.
The series was released in two volumes: three, one-hour episodes on December 8, 2022; and three more, one week later on December 15. It received mixed reviews from critics. According to BARB, it was the most-watched premiere for a Netflix show in 2022 in the United Kingdom. It holds the record for the biggest debut for a Netflix documentary with a total 81.6 million hours watched on its first four days of release, amounting to more than 28.7 million households.
In September 2020, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex signed a private commercial deal with Netflix "to develop scripted and unscripted series, film, documentaries, and children programming for the streaming service". Garrett Bradley was initially attached to the project as director, but reportedly left due to differences of opinion with the couple. Lana Wilson was also considered by Netflix as another possible director though she was never formally attached to the project. All interviews featured in the docuseries were completed by August 2022.
In an interview published in October 2022, Meghan announced that she and Harry were working on a docuseries focused on their life, directed by Liz Garbus. Garbus had been recruited for the project in 2021 by Chanel Pysnik, head of unscripted for Archewell Productions. Garbus had previously worked with Meghan on the development of a children's show. As of October 2022, Netflix had not confirmed the release of any documentaries by Harry and Meghan, and the release date for the docuseries was reportedly pushed back following the negative reaction to the fifth season of Netflix's The Crown. Meghan said of the docuseries that it was "... nice to be able to trust someone with our story" and described Garbus as a "seasoned director whose work I've long admired". Meghan conceded that allowing Garbus to direct meant that the series "may not be the way we would have told it. But that's not why we're telling it. We're trusting our story to someone else, and that means it will go through their lens". In response to the question of whether they reached out to the British press to get their side of the story, Garbus said the idea was "a nonstarter" as they were trying to keep the project "under wraps".
On December 1, 2022, the title of the docuseries was announced as Harry & Meghan. Despite initial assumptions that the docuseries had been partially filmed at the couple's Montecito home, it was later reported that the couple sat down for their interviews at 888 Lilac Drive, another mansion in Montecito.
The series has received the highest UK viewing ratings for any Netflix show in 2022. According to BARB, its first episode recorded 2.4 million views during its first day on Netflix. This figure not only marks the biggest one-day audience for any Netflix show since BARB began monitoring the streaming service in October 2022, but it is also over double the viewership of The Crown's first episode of its fifth season (1.1 million). The second episode had 1.5 million streams, while the third installment managed 800,000. The docuseries holds the record for the biggest debut for a Netflix documentary with a total 81.6 million hours watched on its first four days of availability, amounting to more than 28 million households. It was watched for 97.7 million hours between December 12–18, during which its second volume became available. The show amassed 1.27 billion minutes of viewing time in the United States during its premiere week, followed by 1.69 billion minutes for the week of December 12–18. It ranked fourth on Nielsen's weekly streaming rankings during its first week before rising to the second position in the following week. In January 2023, the series was announced as Netflix's second-highest ranked documentary ever.
The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 45% approval rating with an average rating of 5.7/10, based on 31 critic reviews. The website's critics consensus reads, "While Harry & Meghan is one of the most intimate glimpses yet into the famous couple, this overlong docuseries offers more overexposure than genuine illumination." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 56 out of 100 based on 12 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".
Zach Schonfeld, writing in The Guardian about the way controversial documentaries about celebrities were increasingly being suppressed in favour of dull, sanitised, authorised versions, said "Netflix's Harry & Meghan, a six-hour exercise in brand management, made with their own production company, may represent the nadir. As Edelman put it, viewers are 'being served slop'."
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Harry & Meghan
Harry & Meghan is an American documentary series streaming on Netflix, starring Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex. The series has six parts and covers the couple's relationship from their early courtship to their decision to step back as working members of the British royal family and their subsequent activities. It also includes interviews with family, friends, historians, and journalists.
The series was released in two volumes: three, one-hour episodes on December 8, 2022; and three more, one week later on December 15. It received mixed reviews from critics. According to BARB, it was the most-watched premiere for a Netflix show in 2022 in the United Kingdom. It holds the record for the biggest debut for a Netflix documentary with a total 81.6 million hours watched on its first four days of release, amounting to more than 28.7 million households.
In September 2020, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex signed a private commercial deal with Netflix "to develop scripted and unscripted series, film, documentaries, and children programming for the streaming service". Garrett Bradley was initially attached to the project as director, but reportedly left due to differences of opinion with the couple. Lana Wilson was also considered by Netflix as another possible director though she was never formally attached to the project. All interviews featured in the docuseries were completed by August 2022.
In an interview published in October 2022, Meghan announced that she and Harry were working on a docuseries focused on their life, directed by Liz Garbus. Garbus had been recruited for the project in 2021 by Chanel Pysnik, head of unscripted for Archewell Productions. Garbus had previously worked with Meghan on the development of a children's show. As of October 2022, Netflix had not confirmed the release of any documentaries by Harry and Meghan, and the release date for the docuseries was reportedly pushed back following the negative reaction to the fifth season of Netflix's The Crown. Meghan said of the docuseries that it was "... nice to be able to trust someone with our story" and described Garbus as a "seasoned director whose work I've long admired". Meghan conceded that allowing Garbus to direct meant that the series "may not be the way we would have told it. But that's not why we're telling it. We're trusting our story to someone else, and that means it will go through their lens". In response to the question of whether they reached out to the British press to get their side of the story, Garbus said the idea was "a nonstarter" as they were trying to keep the project "under wraps".
On December 1, 2022, the title of the docuseries was announced as Harry & Meghan. Despite initial assumptions that the docuseries had been partially filmed at the couple's Montecito home, it was later reported that the couple sat down for their interviews at 888 Lilac Drive, another mansion in Montecito.
The series has received the highest UK viewing ratings for any Netflix show in 2022. According to BARB, its first episode recorded 2.4 million views during its first day on Netflix. This figure not only marks the biggest one-day audience for any Netflix show since BARB began monitoring the streaming service in October 2022, but it is also over double the viewership of The Crown's first episode of its fifth season (1.1 million). The second episode had 1.5 million streams, while the third installment managed 800,000. The docuseries holds the record for the biggest debut for a Netflix documentary with a total 81.6 million hours watched on its first four days of availability, amounting to more than 28 million households. It was watched for 97.7 million hours between December 12–18, during which its second volume became available. The show amassed 1.27 billion minutes of viewing time in the United States during its premiere week, followed by 1.69 billion minutes for the week of December 12–18. It ranked fourth on Nielsen's weekly streaming rankings during its first week before rising to the second position in the following week. In January 2023, the series was announced as Netflix's second-highest ranked documentary ever.
The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 45% approval rating with an average rating of 5.7/10, based on 31 critic reviews. The website's critics consensus reads, "While Harry & Meghan is one of the most intimate glimpses yet into the famous couple, this overlong docuseries offers more overexposure than genuine illumination." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 56 out of 100 based on 12 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".
Zach Schonfeld, writing in The Guardian about the way controversial documentaries about celebrities were increasingly being suppressed in favour of dull, sanitised, authorised versions, said "Netflix's Harry & Meghan, a six-hour exercise in brand management, made with their own production company, may represent the nadir. As Edelman put it, viewers are 'being served slop'."