Days after With Love, Meghan season 1 dropped on Netflix amid a blaze of headlines selling some seriously scathing reviews, season 2 has been announced.

Is it a surprise that Meghan Markle - sorry, Sussex - has been given another shot by the streaming giant despite such critical derision for her latest project with them?

Not really. Netflix, home of the oft-slated but voraciously consumed Emily in Paris, knows the value of hate viewing, and the power of shows being part of social media conversation.

Is Meghan, With Love's most magical ingredient hate viewing?

Meghan, With Love season 1 ticks both of those boxes. Even if the majority of that social media conversation is comprised of mocking memes.

It's two fingers up to the TV critics, whose reviews may well be entertaining to read, but whose views now seemingly yield little power in the world of modern TV commissioning.

But what did the professional telly watchers have to say about Meghan, With Love season 1?

With Love, Meghan reviews for season 1

Let's start (relatively) gently with Variety where reviewer Daniel D'Addario describes it as "a Montecito ego trip not worth taking".

He continues: "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."

Perhaps not that gentle at all, on reflection.

Chitra Ramaswamy's review in The Guardian is headlined "toe-curlingly unloveable TV". And it doesn't get any kinder from there. In fact, her pay-off paragraph delivers an even harder jab: "It’s the lack of humour, irony, self-awareness and apprehension of the reality of this deeply unequal and apocalyptic world that makes With Love, Meghan so unlovable in the end."

Katie Rosseinsky of The Independent summed it up as queasy and exhausting. Of the eight-episode series, she noted: "After a few episodes, I need a lie down."

Netflix served '283 minutes of torture'

Lottie O'Neill at Royal Insider describes it as 283 minutes of torture, adding: "I’d be happy if I didn’t hear this word elevated for another 12 months. It’s the Duchess’ favourite word, as she couldn’t help but throw it in every other sentence.

"What wasn’t elevated in With Love, Meghan was her lack of awareness of what the average day looks like for the standard person."

The Times' critic Carol Midgley writes: "If you thought... that you would rather fry your eyeballs than sit through it, I have news for you. It is so much worse than that."

Recipe tip right there for With Love, Meghan season 2 - garnished with edible flowers, of course.

Meghan, With Love, season 1 is available to stream on Netflix.