Yes, it's Packed with Gibberish, Over-the-Top Hospitality and Self-Help Jargon. Yet I Truly Cherish Meghan's Festive Episode.

No concerned with the season, it's perpetually fair game for scrutiny on the Meghan Markle's Netflix series, With Love, Meghan. Commentators, from seasoned journalists to online pundits, have seldom found such common ground as when eagerly tearing the series' earlier episodes to pieces. The general consensus seemed to be a more egregious regal scandal had never been witnessed than the notorious pretzel re-packaging incident.

Now, in the spirit of a holiday maverick, she has returned for another round with a "Holiday Celebration" (aka a yuletide episode). But this time, it's different. The familiar ingredients we've come to expect – vague self-help platitudes, overzealous entertaining – persist, but within the context of a yuletide episode, the purpose becomes clear. The puzzle has come perfectly; it's a ideal seasonal storm.

By this point, Meghan is like the eccentric aunt at Christmas celebrations everywhere – offering unasked-for guidance, and supplying 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 quite a personality, but her aura is known and strangely comforting. And she seems pleased; she's inflicting the slightest hurt.

She is aware her every micro expression, word and glance will be picked apart and criticised, but manages to seem relaxed and too blessed to be stressed.

Maybe this is the only time in history where that well-worn saying – "Pay no mind, it's only envy" – might be true. Since, let's face it, all aspects in Meghan's Holiday Celebration is charming. Admittedly, it's all cringily ultra-extra, foolishness and over the top – but isn't that just what the holiday season is for? And the talk she's talking might be laughable, but the life she leads seems authentically impeccably styled.

Whatever she attempts, she accomplishes with style. Her cooking looks tasty, the festive decoration she creates is stunning, her gifts are nearly too beautiful to unwrap. Nothing is ordinary or aesthetically displeasing – including the way she secures her apron is artful and chic. She doesn't toss a meal in the microwave, it "goes for a spin", and she wraps gift paper like an craft master. She also seems to be completely savoring herself from start to finish. How could any skeptical viewer not be charmed, overcome by holiday spirit and left with a powerful yearning for crafted festive snaps or a crudites platter where broccoli is arranged in the likeness of a wreath?

Meghan was once an actress for a living, of course, but despite that, after the degree of scrutiny she has endured from the moment she became involved with Prince Harry, a theoretical combination of acting royalty would find it hard to appear this authentically. Her unwillingness to modify or even soften her persona, even though it being so constantly, internationally ridiculed, is oddly heartening. In our uncertain world, here is something we can count on: Meghan will stay true to form, come what may. We will forever know where we are with her.

If you're still not buying what she's selling, a thought that will certainly come as a comfort: you are not obligated to. There isn't national service these days, and should it be reinstated, it would be unlikely to include streaming With Love, Meghan: Holiday Celebration. If, on the other hand, you choose to watch and are overcome with longing about her idyllic Christmas, all is not lost either. Whether you're a royal or a office worker, hardly any child truly appreciates the time and energy their mother does in December. So you can find comfort by envisioning the young royals' faces when they reveal a handwritten message that says, 'I love you because you are brave,' from a DIY festive calendar, instead of a chocolate.