Writing a negative review.
Most model reviews you’ll read are overwhelmingly positive but surely the most enteraining reviews are those that rip to shreds
Almost universally panned by TV critics, the duchess formally know as Meghan Markle shines her light into our living rooms in her new netflix series.
Is it so bad that it’s actually good ?
Here’s the netflix trailer of With love, Meghan
That’s
Most reviews require a recomendation, so perhaps
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vdro1p53LYQ
Reviews:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/0/with-love-meghan-netflix-review-duchess-duke-sussex/
“smug, syrupy’ and narcissistic”
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/mar/07/one-star-toe-curler-with-love-meghan-to-return-for-second-series-on-netflix#:~:text=It%20received%20a%20%E2%80%9Ctoe%2Dcurling,more%20joy%20to%20be%20shared%E2%80%9D.
“Netflix’s ‘With Love, Meghan’ is surreally dull” – The spectator
Netflix’s ‘With Love, Meghan’ is surreally dull
“smug, syrupy and endlessly spoofable” the Times
“Kiss the netflix deal goodbye”
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/mar/04/with-love-meghan-netfix-deal-harry-royals
“queasy and exhausting”
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/reviews/with-love-meghan-review-netflix-duchess-of-sussex-b2709191.html
“Pioneers new frontiers in unrelatability”
https://www.vulture.com/article/with-love-meghan-review-netflix.html
Sky news
Negative
Your task.
Sky News Australia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GH_IFv1YXaM
TASK
Write the worst review possible for a car
https://www.jalopnik.com/the-ten-most-scathing-car-reviews-ever-1748978256/
Reading and Use of English part 2 Open Cloze
2005 Subaru B9 Tribeca- Robert Farago, The Truth About Cars
_____1_____ any prompting whatsoever, my 11-year-old daughter took _____2_____ look at the new Subaru B9 Tribeca and said ‘ew’. And there you have it. Scooby’s first-ever SUV is an irredeemably gruesome beast _____3_____ design should have been aborted a femtosecond after conception. While Subaru would like to convince us that “ugly ass” and “dynamic styling” are synonymous, even a pre-teen knows that repulsive is not, and _____4_____ will be, the new cool. In the race for SUV buyers’ affections, the horrific B9 sets _____5_____ a mile behind the starting line.
Chrysler Sebring Convertible – Jeremy Clarkson, The Sunday Times
Many people imagine when they rent a convertible in America that they’ll be thumping _____6_____ Highway 1 under a blazing sky in a throbbing Corvette or an evocative Mustang. Yum yum, they think. Freedom. Sunshine. A V8 bass line. Engineer boots, leather jackets and tight blue jeans. The American dream.
Sadly, _____7_____, most tourists end up with a Chrysler Sebring convertible, which is _____8_____ certainly the worst car in the entire world.
Answers:
1. Without
2. one
3. whose
4. never
5. off
6. down
7. however
8: almost
Vocab
Abysmal: Dreadful, appalling
Anemic: Feeble, pale, colorless
Alarming: Distressing, disquieting, worrying
Astringent: Biting, caustic, acerbic
Bad: Wicked, harmful, injurious
Barren: Stark, austere, deserted
Battered: Damaged, beat-up, weather-beaten
Biting: Sharp, stinging
Bland: Insipid, tasteless, lackluster
Brassy: Flashy, gaudy, showy
Breakable: Fragile, brittle, flimsy
Bulky: Unwieldy, cumbersome
Calamitous: Catastrophic, cataclysmic
Caustic: Corrosive, burning
Cheap: Inferior, substandard
Chilly: Frosty, icy
Choppy: Rough, irregular
Convoluted: Drawn-out, long-winded
Corny: Clichéd, trite, hackneyed
Corrosive: Caustic, eroding
Damaged: Impaired, spoiled, marred
Damp: Clammy, soggy
Dangerous: Treacherous, risky
Declining: Waning, abating
Drastic: Extreme, sweeping
Dreadful: Horrible, awful
Droopy: Limp, flaccid
Empty: Vacant, hollow
Encrusted: Caked, enveloped
Faded: Waned, washed out
Faint: Dim, indistinct
Faulty: Broken, damaged
Flavorless: Bland, boring
Fleeting: Transitory, momentary
Flimsy: Insubstantial, rickety
Foggy: Murky, muddled
Forbidding: Grim, stern, bleak
Freakish: Inexplicable, weird
Frozen: Immobile, petrified
Fruitless: Futile, useless
Garish: Gaudy, tasteless
Generic: Basic, common
Heavy: Substantial, hefty
Helpless: Vulnerable, dependent
Hideous: Repugnant, gruesome
Hoarse: Gravelly, throaty
Hollow: Vacant, worthless, empty
Horrendous: Unspeakable, appalling, terrible
Horrible: Appalling, atrocious, horrid
Horrific: Sickening, ghastly, gruesome
Hushed: Muted, silent, soft
Idiotic: Reckless, foolhardy, senseless
Illegible: Indecipherable, scrawled
Illogical: Contradictory, unreasoned
Lame: Weak, unconvincing, feeble
Laughable: Ludicrous, absurd
Lowly: Modest, simple
Malignant: Wicked, malicious
Moody: Sullen, morose
Muddled: Untidy, cluttered
Nasty: Foul, vile
Obscene: Explicit, crude
Odd: Peculiar, eccentric
Oppressive: Stifling, close
Predictable: Unsurprising, obvious
Repugnant: Repulsive, abhorrent
Squalid: Filthy, fetid, foul
Tacky: Cheap, nasty, tasteless
Tasteless: Inelegant, garish, insensitive
Toxic: Lethal, noxious
Wretched: Shameful, abject
Phrases
It’s such vomit inducing pastiche that….
The fear of an imminent death somehow loses its sting after watching…
I’d rather scoop my own eyeballs out with a sharpened spoon than sit through another episode of…