Yes, it's Full of Nonsense, Over-the-Top Hospitality and Self-Help Jargon. Yet I Truly Love Meghan's Holiday Special.

No matter the season, it's constantly open season for commentary on the Meghan Markle's Netflix series, With Love, Meghan. Reviewers, from seasoned journalists to online pundits, have seldom found such common ground as when enthusiastically shredding the lifestyle show's first and second seasons apart. The general consensus held that a greater royal outrage had never been witnessed than the now-infamous pretzel re-packaging incident.

Currently, like a merry renegade master, she has returned for another round with a "Holiday Celebration" (also known as a Christmas special). Yet now, it's different. The familiar ingredients audiences anticipate – psychobabble word salads, overzealous entertaining – persist, but framed of a yuletide episode, suddenly it all makes sense. The elements have slid into place; it's a perfect snow storm.

Now, Meghan resembles the oddball family member at Christmas celebrations everywhere – dispensing unasked-for guidance, and supplying the odd random outburst. ("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 strangely comforting. And she looks content; she's not doing a bit of damage.

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

Maybe this is the first occasion in history where that well-worn saying – "Ignore them, they're just jealous" – might be true. Because, in all honesty, everything in Meghan's Holiday Celebration honestly feels lovely. Yes, it's all awkwardly over-the-top, foolishness and over the top – but doesn't that represent exactly what the holiday season is for? And the words she speaks might be absurd, but the life she leads genuinely looks impeccably styled.

Whatever she sets her mind to, she executes with panache. Her cooking looks tasty, the festive decoration she crafts is gorgeous, her gifts are almost too pretty to tear into. Nothing is average or ugly – including the way she fastens her apron is creative and fashionable. She doesn't bung a dish in the oven, it "takes a twirl", and she wraps wrapping paper like an craft master. She also seems to be thoroughly enjoying herself throughout. How could any hate-watcher not be charmed, overcome by festive joy and left with a intense desire for handmade crackers or a vegetable display where greens is arranged in the form of a Christmas ring?

Meghan had a career in acting for a living, naturally, but even so, after the level of attention she has faced since she met Prince Harry, even a hypothetical offspring of two legendary actresses would struggle to act this naturally. Her unwillingness to change or even tone down her persona, despite it being so constantly, widely parodied, is weirdly comforting. In our unpredictable world, here is something we can count on: Meghan will stay true to form, whatever happens. We will always know our position with her.

If you're remaining skeptical of what she's selling, a point that will surely come as a comfort: you are not obligated to. We don't have mandatory conscription these days, and should it be reinstated, it would be unlikely to include viewing With Love, Meghan: Holiday Celebration. If, on the other hand, you decide to tune in and are consumed by jealousy about her picture-perfect Christmas, you can take solace either. Be you a royal or a data administrator, no kid fully understands the time and energy their mum does in December. So you can take heart by picturing the young royals' faces when they reveal a beautifully scripted letter that says, 'I love you because you are brave,' from a homemade Advent calendar, rather than a candy.