However you choose to label it, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s much-vaunted Netflix series Harry & Meghan is hard to watch and hard to digest.
Branded as a documentary, it is emotional and melodramatic, with lead "characters" who seem totally wrapped up in themselves and their privileged lifestyle.
Bombshells are dropped throughout the episodes, providing both a platform on which the Sussexes can wallow and also giving startling and horrifying insights into the behaviour of other members of the Royal Family, which "H" and "M" - as they apparently refer to each other - have opted out of.
Rather than merely doubling down on their claims about their treatment, they seem to be quadrupling down on them.
At the heart of the Netflix series lies the awful British tabloid newspapers’ obsession with the Duchess of Sussex’s mixed-race heritage.
Tied into all of this is, as Prince Harry says, the "leaking and the planting" which it now appears the Buckingham Palace press office engaged in to further discredit the couple.
The latest bolt from the blue in the television interviews is that Prince Harry was assaulted by his brother, Prince William, now the Prince of Wales, in 2019 during an argument in which William allegedly called Ms Markle "difficult", "rude" and "abrasive".
Despite laying bare the frictions and factions in the Royal Family, and continuing to pile on the layers of acrimony, Prince Harry still says he wants his brother and father, King Charles III, back.
Good luck with that one, Harry.
In their series, the Duchess of Sussex comes across as extrovert with egocentric tendencies. Prince Harry is much the same but exudes a certain naivety about how their words are going to affect the family and the chance of any kind of "normal" future relationship with them.
At one point there is delicious irony when Prince Harry, bemoaning the tabloid press, says: "It’s amazing what people will do when offered a huge amount of money - 50,000, 100,000 - to create a story."
Reportedly, the couple received $US100 million from Netflix for this series and other programmes.
But however self-indulgent, even paranoid, the series might seem, the Sussexes certainly appear to have been treated very badly indeed by members of the Royal Family, their minions, the "establishment", and the British media.
With ongoing disclosures, which must have more than a grain of truth to them, adding to the weight of evidence, a fuller picture of the sordid affair is emerging.
The series refers frequently to racism - and it could almost seem like that is being blamed for issues which are more the result of feathers being ruffled by a young energetic outsider giving the staid, stuttering and constipated royals a much-needed shake-up.
But it is clear the duchess has been dealt with abysmally by the tabloids and driven to within an inch of losing her sanity.
It is clear Prince Harry has feared for her life and the future of their own family, all the time with the paparazzi’s treatment of his mother, Princess Diana, at the back of his mind.
And it is becoming clear that the Palace has done nothing to make their lives easier.
In fact, it is possible it has deliberately made things worse - not only by ignoring their pleas to support them, but also by stirring up the media and passing on falsehoods.
Predictably it is not commenting.
A good point made in the series is that the Royal Family prides itself on holding together the Commonwealth, which is mostly populated by people of colour, yet they can’t seem to cope with a mixed-race member of the family.
This is dynamite.
Many will be thinking, do we really need this beastly bunch at all?
