Admittedly, it's Packed with Absurdity, Over-the-Top Hospitality and Self-Help Jargon. But I Do Adore Meghan's Holiday Special.

No considering the season, it's constantly hunting season for commentary on the Meghan Markle's Netflix series, With Love, Meghan. Critics, both professional and armchair, have rarely been so united as when gleefully ripping the series' initial installments to shreds. The common opinion was that a greater royal outrage had seldom occurred than the notorious snack re-labeling incident.

Currently, as a festive rebel, she has returned for another round with a "Festive Special" (aka a Christmas special). Yet now, it's different. The usual elements viewers are accustomed to – psychobabble word salads, extreme hosting – are still present, but framed of a holiday show, it all clicks into place. The elements have slid perfectly; it's a ideal seasonal storm.

At this stage, Meghan resembles the quirky relative at the typical holiday get-together – dispensing unasked-for guidance, 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 a bit of a character, but her aura is known and strangely comforting. And she seems content; she's not doing the slightest hurt.

She knows her each tiny facial movement, utterance and look will be picked apart and judged, but manages to seem relaxed and remarkably at ease.

It could be this is the first occasion in history where that well-worn saying – "Ignore them, they're just jealous" – may well be true. Because, you know what?, each element in Meghan's Holiday Celebration truly is lovely. Granted, it's all cringily ultra-extra, foolishness and extravagant – but doesn't that represent exactly what Christmas is about? And the words she speaks might be absurd, but the example she sets genuinely looks beautifully curated.

Anything she turns her beautifully manicured, diamond-adorned hand to, she executes with flair. Her culinary efforts looks delicious, the wreath she creates is stunning, her gifts are almost too pretty to tear into. Not a single thing is average or ugly – including the way she ties her apron is artful and chic. She doesn't throw a meal in the microwave, it "goes for a spin", and she wraps gift paper like an origami guru. She also seems to be genuinely relishing herself from start to finish. How could any skeptical viewer not be convinced, bursting with holiday spirit and left with a deep longing for crafted festive snaps or a crudites platter where greens is arranged in the form of a festive circle?

Meghan was once an actress for a living, obviously, but nonetheless, after the intensity of attention she has endured since she started dating Prince Harry, even a hypothetical offspring of acting royalty would find it hard to appear this genuinely. Her decision to modify or even moderate her persona, despite it being so persistently, globally mocked, is weirdly comforting. In our volatile world, here is one thing we can count on: Meghan will be like this, come what may. We will always know our position with her.

If you're still not buying what she's selling, a reminder that will certainly come as a comfort: you don't have to. We don't have national service these days, and should it be reinstated, it would be doubtful to include streaming With Love, Meghan: Holiday Celebration. If, conversely, you choose to watch and are overcome with envy about her picture-perfect Christmas, there is hope either. Be you a royal or a everyday person, hardly any child fully understands the time and energy their parent puts in in December. So you can console yourself by envisioning the young royals' faces when they open a beautifully scripted letter that says, 'I love you because you are brave,' from a DIY festive calendar, instead of a chocolate.