Netflix’s new show With Love, Meghan is Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex‘s attempt to rebrand herself as an aspirational lifestyle guru in the mold of Martha Stewart, Joanna Gaines, or the Pioneer Woman. All of these are wealthy women who have built retail empires with TV shows offering everyday women a double whammy of escapism and homemaking hacks. Unfortunately, With Love, Meghan won’t make you feel like you’re watching the arrival of the millennial Ina Garten, but rather the second coming of Marie Antoinette.

Throughout the eight episodes of With Love, Meghan, we see one of the most famous women in the world play at feeding chickens, harvesting food, and homemaking in a way that quite simply reminded me of stories about the doomed French queen swanning about her bespoke rustic cottage in peasant garb for kicks. Sure, historians debate whether or not Marie Antoinette did that for real, but in With Love, Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex literally tells us to eat cake. Specifically a three-tiered cake frosted with her viral homemade preserves.

With Love, Meghan is beautifully directed by Michael Steed, but lacks any clarity of purpose. The Duchess of Sussex cooks for friends, makes homemade beeswax candles, shows us how to blow up balloons with a $20 pump, gushes over Alice Waters, arranges fruit rainbows, trims flowers, and marvels at the gorgeous views of Montecito. There’s no introduction to the show, voiceover or otherwise. We’re just dropped into Meghan Markle’s fantasy world of aesthetically beautiful objects and farm-to-table cuisine without any context for who or what we’re watching.

I suppose there’s no intro to With Love, Meghan because we should all already know who Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, is. After all, she’s one of the most famous women in the world, thanks to her work on streaming mega-hit Suits as well as her stint as a working member of the British royal family. Tabloids follow her every move, armies of racist bots tarnish her name on social media, and Oprah Winfrey went to her wedding to Prince Harry. She’s famous-famous.

However, the implication that we should all know exactly who she is and what this show is about feels inherently narcissistic. It means that With Love, Meghan isn’t a show designed for the audience, but crafted as an experience for the host. Maybe Markle shares all the ways she takes pains to entertain guests in her house, but there’s not too much energy put in welcoming the average Netflix viewer. Even her “accessible” recipes, like a one pan spaghetti comes with a comment about how her kids don’t even eat “heaps” of pasta.

In the Duchess of Sussex’s defense, the timing of With Love, Meghan‘s launch could not be worse. I say that knowing full well that Netflix already pushed the show back so its premiere didn’t coincide with the deadly Los Angeles wildfires. As I write this, the stock market is in free fall, international tensions are fever high, innocent trans children are under attack by the politicians, the federal government is being broken down and sold for parts, measles is spreading, and the average American can’t afford eggs. A show where a prince’s wife dons an apron to collect eggs from the aesthetically cute chicken coop on her estate feels like the definition of tone deaf.

As a fan of lifestyle television, I’m predisposed to like this kind of stuff, but even I can’t get on board. Markle isn’t actually an expert most of these tasks, so the show is more about her being an amateur than a teacher. Hilariously, in the first episode there are even multiple moments where she admits she doesn’t even like doing the tasks she’s signed up for. If you don’t like honey, why are you employing a beekeeper to hold your hand while you tend to your beehive? You don’t like baking? Then don’t! What are we literally doing here in this rented home that’s not even yours? Oh, right. Watching you.

I think what’s most frustrating to me is I don’t even dislike Markle the way some weirdos do. In fact, I owe her a great deal for what she did on behalf of Meghans everywhere. Until she was engaged to Prince Harry, strangers would always misspell my name. (Sure, I get “Meaghan” more than “Megan” now, but people remember the “h” thanks to her.)

I also honestly thought Meghan Markle was good at being a working royal when she was one. She’s poised, beautiful, and well-spoken. She seems to likes charity work and can wear a tiara well. In fact, I think why she gets so many people’s goat is because she made the gig look easy. What’s not easy, apparently? Hosting a lifestyle show.

Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, is a very pretty woman who seems pleasant enough in her new show. However, the incredible disconnect between the fantasy of With Love, Meghan and the reality we’re living in rather proves the Duchess of Sussex really is a princess, despite the haters.

Only a real royal could be this out of touch.

With Love, Meghan is now streaming on Netflix.