Maureen Callahan

She's not funny.

You have to be smart to be funny.

A sense of humor, I think, is a key sign of intelligence.

But I think she's always also thinking ahead to how she's going to sound and how she's going to look and what people are going to think about her.

And it's that level of just constant perseveration about herself and her image that keeps her from being at all personable, at all relatable, at all somebody you would want to watch.

And so for this reason, Netflix was in a real bind.

And again, it's their own fault.

I do not feel sorry for them.

i i do not feel sorry for any corporation that pumped this into our cultural bloodstream you know take that loss and learn your lesson she's not even a person you could put talented people around and really build something like let's say just for the sake of argument she was somebody who listened and could take constructive criticism and direction and had a little humility she lacks any of the just raw material that you need to create someone people want to watch

I'm trying to think of like an episode of an instance where she thought she was like making fun of herself.

What an incredible metaphor or allegory, really, given what's going on with The Bachelor.

To your points about the Harper's Bazaar piece, you know, it's, first of all, I do think she drugged that dog while shooting with Love, Megan in that kitchen.

Because I don't know a dog who, I've yet to meet a dog who is not food motivated, okay?

And that dog was like just dozing there.

in his dog bed in a kitchen where there was a lot of cooking and a lot of activity and new people coming in.

And dogs want to run to a new person and sniff and see if they're a threat, protect their owner, unless this dog doesn't give a shit about his owner because, you know, she's awful.

But that Harper's Bazaar piece, excuse me, where she says, oh, yeah, I make mistakes.

It's the same one where she drove in a motorcade in a luxury SUV vehicle to a bunch of underprivileged girls at the La Brea Tar Pits in L.A.,

did like a cameo and then left and then had the journalist meet her at, again, a borrowed townhouse in New York City and have the footman who opened the door bellow, Megan, Duchess of Sussex, when it seemed there was nobody else in the house but Megan.

Netflix, that's the kind of footage you need.