Indeed, it's Full of Nonsense, Over-the-Top Hospitality and Psychobabble. However, I Honestly Adore Meghan's Christmas Special.

No matter the time of year, it's perpetually hunting season for commentary on the Meghan Markle's Netflix series, With Love, Meghan. Reviewers, expert and amateur alike, have rarely been so united as when enthusiastically shredding the series' earlier episodes apart. The prevailing view seemed to be a more egregious regal scandal had never been witnessed than the notorious pretzel-bagging incident.

Presently, like a merry renegade master, she is back with a new offering with a "Holiday Celebration" (aka a Christmas special). However on this occasion, the dynamic has changed. The familiar ingredients audiences anticipate – vague self-help platitudes, extreme hosting – are still present, but within the context of a holiday show, it all clicks into place. The elements have slid together; it's a perfect snow storm.

By this point, Meghan is like the quirky relative at the typical holiday get-together – dispensing unsolicited, unnecessary advice, and delivering the occasional strange exclamation. ("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 quite a personality, but her company is customary and unexpectedly soothing. And she appears pleased; she's inflicting any harm.

She understands her each tiny facial movement, syllable and look will be analyzed and scrutinized, but still appears relaxed and serenely untroubled.

Perhaps this is the only time in history where that clichéd phrase – "Ignore them, they're just jealous" – might be true. Because, you know what?, all aspects in Meghan's Holiday Celebration is charming. Granted, it's all painfully excessive, foolishness and over the top – but doesn't that represent just what Christmas is all about? And the words she speaks might be laughable, but the example she sets genuinely looks beautifully curated.

Whatever she turns her beautifully manicured, diamond-adorned hand to, she pulls off with flair. Her cooking looks tasty, the wreath she creates is stunning, her presents are practically too exquisite to unwrap. Not a single thing is ordinary or aesthetically displeasing – even the way she secures her apron is artful and chic. She doesn't throw a meal in the oven, it "takes a twirl", and she wraps gift paper like an origami guru. She also seems to be genuinely relishing herself throughout. How could any cynical observer not be won over, overcome by holiday spirit and left with a powerful yearning for handmade crackers or a crudites platter where greens is arranged in the form of a wreath?

Meghan had a career in acting for a living, obviously, but even so, after the intensity of examination she has weathered from the moment she became involved with Prince Harry, the love child of acting royalty would find it hard to appear this authentically. Her unwillingness to change or even moderate her persona, regardless of it being so relentlessly, widely parodied, is weirdly comforting. In our unpredictable world, here is one thing we can count on: Meghan will remain herself, come what may. We will consistently know our position with her.

If you're still not buying what she's selling, a point that will surely come as a comfort: you are not obligated to. We don't have the draft in this country, and if there were, it would be improbable to include watching With Love, Meghan: Holiday Celebration. If, on the other hand, you choose to watch and are gripped with longing about her idyllic Christmas, you can take solace either. If you are a royal or a office worker, hardly any child completely grasps the dedication and labor their parent expends in December. So you can console yourself by picturing the young royals' faces when they unfold a handwritten message that says, 'I love you because you are brave,' from a handcrafted holiday countdown, in place of a candy.