Admittedly, it's Packed with Nonsense, Over-the-Top Hospitality and Self-Help Jargon. However, I Honestly Cherish Meghan's Holiday Special.

No considering the time of year, it's perpetually open season for scrutiny on the Meghan Markle's Netflix series, With Love, Meghan. Commentators, both professional and armchair, have hardly ever agreed so completely as when enthusiastically shredding the lifestyle show's initial installments to pieces. The prevailing view held that a bigger monarchy-related faux pas had seldom occurred than the now-infamous pretzel re-packaging incident.

Now, in the spirit of a holiday maverick, she has returned for another round with a "Christmas Special" (aka a Christmas special). However on this occasion, things have shifted. The standard components viewers are accustomed to – psychobabble word salads, intense hospitality – persist, but framed of a yuletide episode, suddenly it all makes sense. The pieces have fallen together; it's a flawless festive blizzard.

At this stage, Meghan has become the quirky relative at the typical holiday get-together – providing unsolicited, unnecessary advice, and contributing 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 a bit of a character, but her presence is familiar and oddly reassuring. And she seems happy enough; she's inflicting any harm.

She understands her all subtle gestures, word and gaze will be picked apart and judged, but still appears relaxed and remarkably at ease.

Maybe this is the first occasion in history where that old chestnut – "Ignore them, they're just jealous" – could actually be true. Because, in all honesty, everything in Meghan's Holiday Celebration is lovely. Yes, it's all cringily ultra-extra, nonsense and over the top – but isn't that precisely what the holiday season is about? And the talk she's talking might be ridiculous, but the walk she's walking seems authentically beautifully curated.

Anything she sets her mind to, she executes with panache. Her recipes looks tasty, the holiday arrangement she crafts is stunning, her gifts are almost too pretty to unwrap. Not a single thing is ordinary or visually unappealing – including the way she ties her apron is creative and fashionable. She doesn't throw a meal in the oven, it "has a moment", and she creases wrapping paper like an origami guru. She also seems to be genuinely relishing herself the entire time. How could any skeptical viewer not be charmed, bursting with seasonal cheer and left with a deep longing for crafted festive snaps or a vegetable display where broccoli is arranged in the shape of a wreath?

Meghan used to pretend for a living, obviously, but even so, after the degree of examination she has faced ever since she met Prince Harry, a theoretical combination of acting royalty would struggle to act this naturally. Her refusal to alter or even moderate her shtick, regardless of it being so persistently, internationally ridiculed, is oddly heartening. In our volatile world, here is one thing we can count on: Meghan will stay true to form, whatever happens. We will forever know what to expect with her.

If you're remaining skeptical of what she's selling, a thought that will undoubtedly come as a comfort: you don't have to. There isn't national service in this country, and were it to return, it would be unlikely to include viewing With Love, Meghan: Holiday Celebration. If, on the other hand, you choose to watch and are gripped with envy about her picture-perfect Christmas, you can take solace either. If you are a duchess or a data administrator, hardly any child fully understands the effort and hard work their mum does in the holiday season. So you can take heart by imagining Archie and Lilibet's faces when they open a beautifully scripted letter that says, 'I love you because you are brave,' from a handcrafted holiday countdown, in place of a chocolate.