Yes, it's Brimming with Nonsense, Extreme Hosting and Self-Help Jargon. But I Do Love Meghan's Festive Episode.

No matter the season, it's constantly open season for commentary on the Meghan Markle's Netflix series, With Love, Meghan. Reviewers, expert and amateur alike, have hardly ever agreed so completely as when eagerly tearing the series' first and second seasons to pieces. The prevailing view was that a more egregious regal scandal had hardly ever taken place than the notorious pretzel re-packaging incident.

Currently, like a merry renegade master, she is back for another round with a "Holiday Celebration" (aka a yuletide episode). But this time, the dynamic has changed. The standard components audiences anticipate – vague self-help platitudes, overzealous entertaining – persist, but framed of a holiday show, suddenly it all makes sense. The puzzle has come into place; it's a flawless festive blizzard.

Now, Meghan is like the quirky relative at the typical holiday get-together – providing unsolicited, unnecessary advice, and delivering 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 an interesting figure, but her aura is known and strangely comforting. And she looks happy enough; she's causing a bit of damage.

She understands her all subtle gestures, utterance and gaze will be analyzed and criticised, but manages to seem unburdened and serenely untroubled.

Maybe this is the only time in history where that old chestnut – "Ignore them, they're just jealous" – may well be true. Because, let's face it, everything in Meghan's Holiday Celebration honestly feels lovely. Admittedly, it's all cringily ultra-extra, foolishness and over the top – but is that not just what Yuletide is for? And the talk she's talking might be laughable, but the life she leads appears to be beautifully curated.

Anything she turns her beautifully manicured, diamond-adorned hand to, she pulls off with flair. Her culinary efforts looks tasty, the festive decoration she makes is stunning, her presents are practically too exquisite to open. Not a single thing is ordinary or aesthetically displeasing – even the way she fastens her apron is stylish and elegant. She doesn't bung a dish in the oven, it "takes a twirl", and she wraps gift paper like an craft master. She also seems to be thoroughly enjoying herself from start to finish. How could any hate-watcher not be convinced, filled with holiday spirit and left with a powerful yearning for handmade crackers or a vegetable display where broccoli is arranged in the likeness of a festive circle?

Meghan had a career in acting for a living, of course, but even so, after the intensity of examination she has faced from the moment she met Prince Harry, a theoretical combination of two legendary actresses would have difficulty behaving this authentically. Her refusal to modify or even soften her shtick, even though it being so relentlessly, globally mocked, is strangely reassuring. In our unpredictable world, here is something we can count on: Meghan will remain herself, whatever happens. We will consistently know where we are with her.

If you're still not buying her message, a point that will undoubtedly come as a comfort: you aren't required to. The UK has abolished national service in this country, and were it to return, it would be unlikely to include streaming With Love, Meghan: Holiday Celebration. If, conversely, you willingly check it out and are gripped with jealousy about her idyllic Christmas, all is not lost either. Be you a duchess or a office worker, no kid fully understands the effort and hard work their mother expends in the holiday season. So you can find comfort by imagining Archie and Lilibet's faces when they unfold a handwritten message that says, 'I love you because you are brave,' from a DIY festive calendar, in place of a chocolate.