Yes, it's Brimming with Gibberish, Extreme Hosting and Self-Help Jargon. Yet I Truly Love Meghan's Christmas Special.

No matter the season, it's perpetually open season for scrutiny on the Meghan Markle's Netflix series, With Love, Meghan. Reviewers, expert and amateur alike, have hardly ever agreed so completely as when gleefully ripping the series' initial installments apart. The prevailing view held that a more egregious regal scandal had seldom occurred than the notorious pretzel-bagging incident.

Now, like a merry renegade master, she has returned with a new offering with a "Festive Special" (aka a Christmas special). But this time, the dynamic has changed. The standard components audiences anticipate – psychobabble word salads, intense hospitality – remain, but framed of a Christmas special, the purpose becomes clear. The puzzle has come together; it's a flawless festive blizzard.

Now, Meghan resembles the quirky relative at most festive family gatherings – providing unsolicited, unnecessary advice, and contributing 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 an interesting figure, but her presence is familiar and oddly reassuring. And she looks content; she's inflicting the slightest hurt.

She understands her each tiny facial movement, syllable and gaze will be picked apart and scrutinized, but still appears relaxed and too blessed to be stressed.

Perhaps this is the first occasion in history where that well-worn saying – "Don't listen, it's pure jealousy" – might be true. Because, let's face it, each element in Meghan's Holiday Celebration honestly feels charming. Admittedly, it's all awkwardly over-the-top, foolishness and extravagant – but doesn't that represent just what Christmas is all about? And the words she speaks might be laughable, but the life she leads appears to be shop-bought.

Anything she sets her mind to, she accomplishes with style. Her cooking looks scrumptious, the wreath she makes is breathtaking, her presents are nearly too beautiful to open. Not a single thing is average or ugly – even the way she fastens her apron is creative and fashionable. She doesn't throw a dish in the microwave, it "has a moment", and she creases wrapping paper like an origami guru. She also seems to be thoroughly enjoying herself from start to finish. How could any cynical observer not be won over, overcome by holiday spirit and left with a intense desire for handmade crackers or a crudites platter where greens is organized in the likeness of a wreath?

Meghan used to pretend for a living, of course, but nonetheless, after the level of attention she has weathered ever since she started dating Prince Harry, even a hypothetical offspring of Meryl Streep and Judi Dench would struggle to act this authentically. Her refusal to change or even soften her routine, even though it being so constantly, internationally ridiculed, is oddly heartening. In our volatile world, here is one thing we can count on: Meghan will remain herself, no matter what. We will forever know where we are with her.

If you're not yet convinced by her brand, a point that will undoubtedly come as a relief: you don't have to. We don't have mandatory conscription anymore, and were it to return, it would be unlikely to include streaming With Love, Meghan: Holiday Celebration. If, however, you choose to watch and are overcome with longing about her idyllic Christmas, there is hope either. Whether you're a royal or a data administrator, no kid completely grasps the time and energy their mum expends in the holiday season. So you can console yourself by envisioning the young royals' faces when they open a handwritten message that says, 'I love you because you are brave,' from a homemade Advent calendar, instead of a candy.