Yes, it's Packed with Absurdity, Extreme Hosting and Self-Help Jargon. However, I Honestly Love Meghan's Festive Episode.

No concerned with the season, it's perpetually fair game for commentary on the Meghan Markle's Netflix series, With Love, Meghan. Commentators, from seasoned journalists to online pundits, have seldom found such common ground as when gleefully ripping the program's first and second seasons apart. The general consensus seemed to be a greater royal outrage had seldom occurred than the notorious snack re-labeling incident.

Now, as a festive rebel, she makes a comeback for another round with a "Festive Special" (also known as a holiday episode). Yet now, things have shifted. The standard components audiences anticipate – psychobabble word salads, overzealous entertaining – persist, but framed of a Christmas special, the purpose becomes clear. The elements have slid perfectly; it's a flawless festive blizzard.

At this stage, Meghan has become the quirky relative at most festive family gatherings – dispensing unasked-for guidance, and supplying the periodic peculiar declaration. ("I love spinach!" … "A tradition has to have a beginning." … "A tree is part of my memory and love of the holiday season.") She's a bit of a character, but her aura is known and strangely comforting. And she appears pleased; she's causing any harm.

She is aware her every micro expression, word and look will be analyzed and criticised, but still appears relaxed and remarkably at ease.

Maybe this is the only time in history where that old chestnut – "Ignore them, they're just jealous" – might be true. Since, you know what?, each element in Meghan's Holiday Celebration is charming. Admittedly, it's all cringily ultra-extra, silliness and extravagant – but doesn't that represent just what Yuletide is all about? And the advice she gives might be ridiculous, but the life she leads genuinely looks shop-bought.

Whatever she attempts, she pulls off with style. Her recipes looks scrumptious, the holiday arrangement she crafts is breathtaking, her gifts are nearly too beautiful to tear into. Nothing is ordinary or ugly – even the way she ties her kitchen garment is artful and chic. She doesn't bung a meal in the oven, it "goes for a spin", and she wraps gift paper like an craft master. She also seems to be thoroughly enjoying herself the entire time. How could any cynical observer not be charmed, overcome by seasonal cheer and left with a intense desire for crafted festive snaps or a crudites platter where broccoli is arranged in the form of a Christmas ring?

Meghan had a career in acting for a living, naturally, but nonetheless, after the degree of examination she has endured from the moment she started dating Prince Harry, even a hypothetical offspring of acting royalty would find it hard to appear this authentically. Her unwillingness to alter or even soften her persona, despite it being so relentlessly, internationally ridiculed, is oddly heartening. In our uncertain world, here is one thing we can count on: Meghan will be like this, whatever happens. We will always know what to expect with her.

If you're not yet convinced by what she's selling, a thought that will certainly come as a comfort: you don't have to. There isn't national service anymore, and should it be reinstated, it would be doubtful to include viewing With Love, Meghan: Holiday Celebration. If, on the other hand, you willingly check it out and are consumed by longing about her idyllic Christmas, all is not lost either. Whether you're a royal or a everyday person, few children completely grasps the time and energy their mum puts in in the holiday season. So you can find comfort by imagining her children's faces when they unfold a calligraphy note that says, 'I love you because you are brave,' from a homemade Advent calendar, rather than a sweet treat.