Hey Gays! Are you ready for POLO?

I don't understand the fascination with the Nacho guy. He looks like a neanderthal.

I'm probably not the only one who read that as "Hey Gays! Are you ready for POLIO?"

If Facundo Pieres isn't in this thing, then forget it.

That guy is H - O - T.

Harry's a lousy rider

I thought post read “Polio”- got that disgusting RFK jr clouding everything.

I am not

Is he r5? I know nothing about riding horses or polo so I don’t know. How can you tell he’s terrible? Or is it just general Harry dislike?

Cute guys in this show, but I'm really not interested in watching a series about rich people playing a rich people's sport.

Yawn.

This just isn't going to land in the US. Nobody gives a shit.

R1 = Helen Keller.

I actually used to play polo a little bit, but I have no interest in this.

Nacho's voice is almost as off-putting as Harry's voice.

Another dud from the diabolical duo.

I don't think they are thriving, just surviving.

An inhumane and barbaric 'sport' leaving 'the equipment' (the ponies) bloodied and heaving, in some cases ultimately collapsing.

Rodeo and Polo = animal cruelty

Jeez! Another Miss for the Montecito branch of the Mountbatten-Windsors...a series about a sport for the super rich and overly privileged. These two really know how to connect to the Great Unwashed!

Be on the lookout for another Tell-All after this latest venture flops.

This is just Netflix saying, okay we gave these two way too much money and they’re a millstone around our necks. How can we get rid of them? We have to feature Harry somehow and in something that his poisonous wife can’t horn in on.

Harry has so few interests—the Army, Invictus, Africa, polo—and somehow they landed on polo. From the trailer, it looks like, aside from the players, it’s going to be a lot of self-absorbed pretentious idiots. I think people will watch, not because they’re interested in polo but they want to see how the 1% live.

I think they've already tried to do documentaries on Invictus and Africa.

I agree that we'd all better be ready for polio, r2.

God, it looks boring and similar to a Real Housewives show. So much privilege, so much drama over a relatively obscure sport that no one else really cares about, and so many plastic surgery faces.

The wife most certainly horned in on this—she's a co-executive producer

“co-executive producer” heh.

Was there a Netflix doc with Harry in Africa?

No, no it’s “Executive Produced by” which looks ungrammatical but is carefully parsed to mean they are not “Executive Producers”. The meaning will be lost on 99.9% of viewers but is apparently significant. Hoping someone here can clarify.

Yea that zFecundomus sex on a stick!

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I saw “Polo” and thought Ralph Lauren.

Ready for Polo? I am so over Polo.

[quote] No, no it’s “Executive Produced by” which looks ungrammatical but is carefully parsed to mean they are not “Executive Producers”. The meaning will be lost on 99.9% of viewers but is apparently significant. Hoping someone here can clarify.

"Executive Produced by:" Chief of Production at Netflix has dinner party at his home in Northridge. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Mountbatten-Windsor of Montecito, CA, USA are among the guests. The host sidles up to the couple over cocktails before dinner. "So, Harry. Any ideas about a new project? What is it you like to do here in California?" "Polo," the dimwitted prince responds. The host looks puzzled. "Hehe," his wife giggles. "H means the game. Like in "Pretty Woman." "Ah," The host gets it. "Hey, that movie launched Julia Roberts' career." "Yes, H plays it really well," the former actress says, nudging her husband who appears to be staring into space. "Tell him, H...how you've played it since you were younger." "Yes, yes," the dimwitted prince nods in agreement to his wife, "Papa played it. Mummy would watch him play.. .I remember once my brother and I were with her, but we started arguing about staying at Granny's in Aberdeenshire that summer. He had a bigger bedroom than I there. Mummy told us to stop. After the match, Papa had a stern word with us. He told me that I shouldn't complain, because I was the Spare. My brother snickered behind Papa's back. He later threatened me, "Harold," he said, "Watch it! Or else I'll shove your bum into a dog bowl!" The Chef of Production appears to nod in sympathy, but then grins. "Okay, I may have an idea..."

Executive Producers: Chief of Production at Netflix calls an assistant into his office the next day. "Dave, gets those new kids we hired in here. I have a production I want them to manage and coordinate. Those f@cking grifters had a 'Brainstorm'."

Oprah's chilren

Oprah really wanted to get PAID for telling already fucked up people to "give donations" to the people who lost everything from the fire that THESE BILLIONAIRES WHO WENT TO THE SUN VALLEY MEETING FOR BILL GATES RIGHT BEFORE IT HAPPENED started.

Everything they stand for you should never support. They don't care about you. This is faked for media.

R16 Definitely. And with any streaming service, when I get the sense that my fees are underwriting expensive production deals that are producing thinly veneered vanity projects, I will simply unplug.

In the new year, I think viewers are going to look more closely at the carrying costs of streaming media, and back away from services that don’t interest or engage them viscerally. I will do that, and probably stay with SlingTV and Criterion. HBO max and Netflix are sort of on probation with me and most of my friends.

I read the thread title and thought it said polio, since this is the headline I woke up to this morning.

Today's Daily Maul is headline is that the "left-leaning" magazine 'The Cut' has turned on Megs.

This week, The Cut published a piece titled 'Harry and Meghan's Projects Can't Stop Flopping' by pop culture and entertainment writer Danielle Cohen - marking a very different attitude to that of two years ago.

The piece reflects on Harry, 40, and Meghan's latest Netflix series Polo, which follows the efforts of wealthy athletes competing in the US Open, with scant appearances from the Duke and Duchess themselves.

Receiving two stars or less out of five across the board, the five-part show was labelled 'a tedious inside-look at posh polo' by the Telegraph and a 'mostly boring look at a sport that very few people outside of elite circles have any particular interest in' by Decider.

The Mail's Jane Fryer gave it a one star review, and called it 'flat, plodding and really rather boring'.

Writing in The Cut, Cohen admits she hasn't watched Polo, but says it forms part of the couple's 'tortured attempts to launch a successful Stateside endeavour'.

She continues: '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.'

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle seem to be galloping away from any association with their new show about polo, after it was ridiculed by critics as a tin-eared foray into the “world’s stupidest sport.”

Notably, there has been no visible promotion for the show, entitled, imaginatively enough, Polo; no interviews or podcast episodes with Meghan or Harry have dropped, and records suggest there are no premieres or press events scheduled to support its launch earlier this week.

It’s a grim turn of events for the couple, once heralded as Netflix’s golden duo. Their own lack of engagement with promotional efforts for the show, which they executive produced and have a cameo role in, suggests even they know it’s a dud.

Sean McNulty, a producer, writer, and Hollywood veteran who also created and wrote the Hollywood newsletter The Wakeup, told The Daily Beast: “This one hasn’t been on my radar at all this week, which maybe says it all right there.”

McNulty noted the absence of coverage in the Hollywood trade papers and the apparent absence of any scheduled premiere or press activity for the series, saying: “The lack of a proper, visible press campaign for a series from Harry & Meghan raises an eyebrow to say the least.”

He said that Netflix has launched “other much higher profile content this week” such as Carry-On, Jamie Foxx and Sabrina Carpenter specials, which suggested Polo “could very well disappear in to the Netflix ether quite quickly.”

Harry and Meghan do not have official social media accounts but their friends who have often promoted things on their behalf have been eerily quiet too.

Even Nacho Figueras, the player sometimes described as the David Beckham of polo, who is one of the stars of the show, only posted a few tweets and one Instagram story about the show earlier this week before moving on.

More shuffling away from the bad smell was evident in remarks attributed to a source reportedly quoted in Closer Magazine, who said the end result was “pretty much out of their control” because “the bosses wanted the series to appeal to the masses and push this reality TV angle.”

Tony Case, a marketing expert and writer, told The Daily Beast: “The critics have universally slammed the show. Harry and Meghan are box office poison. Of course everyone is running away from it, in every direction, so to as to not pick up the stench of this colossal bomb. From a brand perspective, I’m not really sure anything can be done at this point to reverse consumers’ obvious apathy toward the Sussexes. They set out to conquer America, but nobody here, it turned out, found them or what they’re peddling to be particularly compelling.”

With a spokesperson for the couple declining to comment, it looks suspiciously like Harry and Meghan would rather we all quietly pretend this new show doesn’t exist. Critics, however, do not appear ready to extend that courtesy.

The Daily Telegraph called Polo a “tedious inside look” at the sport and a “dull indulgence,” while the Guardian, declared polo “the stupidest, most obnoxious sport known to humanity.” One reviewer suggested the series felt like something designed to play in the background of Succession episodes.

It is all a far cry from the lofty ambitions Harry and Meghan had when they signed their much-publicized $100 million Netflix deal. Back then, the couple promised “content that informs but also gives hope” through a “truthful and relatable lens.” Fast-forward to today, and they’ve apparently delivered a reality TV-style take on polo that’s been compared to Selling Sunset and The Real Housewives franchise, just without the ratings.

So, not quite the hope-filled masterpiece we were expecting.

The Guardian review was quite funny

[quote]To briefly paraphrase Hans Gruber: when Prince Harry saw the breadth of his Netflix deal, he wept for there were no more family members to slag off.

For a split second I thought the title read POLIO which is rather unfortunate. A paralytic illness making the rounds in the royal family would be worth watching.

r6 already made that joke

FINALLY! Something the average person can relate to.