There has been a lot of sniggering about how Megan Markle’s Netflix series has flopped spectacularly, and it is well-deserved. Netflix has a long track record of buying into the hype surrounding celebrities and getting burned on expensive projects. Markle is widely disliked so any expectation that she would bring that many eyeballs was always a forlorn hope.
But Michelle Obama is supposed to be in a different class. Not fake British royalty, but genuine American royalty. Many Democrats held onto the hope that Obama would sweep in to save the day by jumping into the presidential race and decisively defeat Trump. She is trusted. She is loved. She is…boring.
So, so boring.
Obama has joined her brother, Craig Robinson, a former basketball player, to present a podcast called IMO, or In My Opinion. It was widely hyped, and people expected it to rise up the…