Dirty, sweaty boys. Riding.’ One can only imagine this was the pitch when Harry and Meghan rocked up at Netflix HQ for one last stab at a commercial hit.
Well, it did the trick! Netflix has released a trailer for the couple’s much-anticipated five-part series about the wholly unrelatable sport of polo, which will ‘heir’ on December 10.
Execs were doubtless assured there would be no scratchy tweed, no chilly salmon rivers, no battered Land Rovers and no wonky teeth.
There wouldn’t even be any interviews on sofas about past slights, no homey herding of rescued hens, no wheeling out of a tot or beagle a la the couple’s one-and-only hit since striking a deal with the streaming giant.
‘Oh, no,’ Meghan will (almost certainly) have simpered to nervous producers. ‘The chickens would be trampled if we took them to watch polo. This is much more high octane. Haz, do polo ponies really run on gas?’
Nope, there is nothing remotely dignified about this latest docuseries if the trailer for Polo is…
