‘Harry & Meghan’ review: In the final episodes, it’s all about image management

With the final three episodes of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s Netflix docuseries, the couple doesn’t ruminate about distancing themselves from the royal family so much as explain — in further depth than has already been reported — what they were thinking and feeling at the time.

After the table setting of the first half, “Harry & Meghan” from director Liz Garbus becomes more of an extended sit-down interview in the second half. The couple describes the growing hostility to their presence in the U.K., so they proposed stepping back from full-time royal duties. Key members of Harry’s family finally agreed to sit down in early January 2020 — a meeting that notably excluded Meghan. “It was terrifying to have my brother scream and shout at me and my father say things that simply weren’t true — and my grandmother, you know, quietly sit there and take it all in.”

This is the most direct Harry has come, here or anywhere else, to naming names and specific actions. This is also the limit to his disclosures. At six hours in total, “Harry & Meghan” may be long, but it is far from thorough.