Yes, it's Full of Gibberish, Extreme Hosting and Psychobabble. But I Do Cherish Meghan's Holiday Special.

No concerned with the season, it's constantly fair game for criticism on the Meghan Markle's televisual offering, With Love, Meghan. Reviewers, expert and amateur alike, have hardly ever agreed so completely as when eagerly tearing the program's initial installments to pieces. The prevailing view seemed to be a bigger monarchy-related faux pas had hardly ever taken place than the now-infamous snack re-labeling incident.

Presently, like a merry renegade master, she is back once again with a "Holiday Celebration" (aka a yuletide episode). However on this occasion, it's different. The usual elements viewers are accustomed to – meaningless jargon salads, extreme hosting – are still present, but within the context of a Christmas special, it all clicks into place. The elements have slid together; it's a perfect snow storm.

Now, Meghan has become the oddball family member at the typical holiday get-together – providing unsolicited, unnecessary advice, 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 quite a personality, but her company is customary and strangely comforting. And she appears pleased; she's inflicting any harm.

She knows her all subtle gestures, utterance and glance will be dissected and criticised, but still appears relaxed and too blessed to be stressed.

Maybe this is the initial instance in history where that old chestnut – "Don't listen, it's pure jealousy" – might be true. The reason is, you know what?, each element in Meghan's Holiday Celebration honestly feels delightful. Yes, it's all painfully excessive, foolishness and extravagant – but doesn't that represent precisely what the holiday season is about? And the words she speaks might be absurd, but the example she sets seems authentically shop-bought.

Whatever she attempts, she accomplishes with flair. Her cooking looks delicious, the festive decoration she creates is breathtaking, her presents are practically too exquisite to unwrap. Nothing is mediocre or visually unappealing – including the way she secures her kitchen garment is stylish and elegant. She doesn't bung a meal in the oven, it "goes for a spin", and she creases gift paper like an paper-folding expert. She also seems to be thoroughly enjoying herself from start to finish. How could any cynical observer not be charmed, filled with festive joy and left with a deep longing for personalized Christmas crackers or a vegetable display where broccoli is positioned in the likeness of a wreath?

Meghan had a career in acting for a living, naturally, but even so, after the level of examination she has weathered from the moment she started dating Prince Harry, the love child of Meryl Streep and Judi Dench would struggle to act this authentically. Her unwillingness to change or even soften her persona, regardless of it being so relentlessly, internationally ridiculed, 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 forever know what to expect with her.

If you're not yet convinced by what she's selling, a reminder that will surely come as a reassurance: you aren't required to. There isn't national service these days, and were it to return, it would be doubtful to include viewing With Love, Meghan: Holiday Celebration. If, conversely, you willingly check it out and are overcome with longing about her flawless Christmas, there is hope either. Be you a duchess or a office worker, no kid truly appreciates the dedication and labor their mother expends in the holiday season. So you can console yourself by envisioning Archie and Lilibet's faces when they reveal a handwritten message that says, 'I love you because you are brave,' from a homemade Advent calendar, in place of a sweet treat.