Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s tortured attempts to launch a successful Stateside endeavor continued this week with a new five-part docuseries about polo on Netflix. It’s called Polo, and while you might think a sport involving horses, fancy hats, and fan-cammable athletes would do well with viewers, Polo is already getting horrific reviews. Seems like this one is bound for the same fate as Markle’s beleaguered jam company.
Personally, I haven’t felt compelled to watch Polo, but according to critics, it is “tedious,” “mostly boring,” and “destined to fall through the submenus into obscurity at the speed of light.” Yikes. “It’s clattering and niche,” one ticked-off guy at The Guardian wrote, “and feels like a spoof documentary designed to play on screens in the background of episodes of Succession.” Though the couple co-produced the show, it seems to have been more of Harry’s pet project — he’s a longtime polo player and apparently “had a vision” — but neither he nor his wife appear much in the series at all, eliciting even more criticism.
I hope her cooking show goes better?
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