Yes, it's Full of Gibberish, Over-the-Top Hospitality and Self-Help Jargon. Yet I Truly Adore Meghan's Festive Episode.

No considering the time of year, it's perpetually fair game for commentary on the Meghan Markle's televisual offering, With Love, Meghan. Reviewers, expert and amateur alike, have seldom found such common ground as when eagerly tearing the series' earlier episodes apart. The common opinion held that a greater royal outrage had seldom occurred than the notorious pretzel-bagging incident.

Presently, in the spirit of a holiday maverick, she has returned once again with a "Christmas Special" (aka a yuletide episode). However on this occasion, things have shifted. The standard components viewers are accustomed to – psychobabble word salads, overzealous entertaining – remain, but within the context of a yuletide episode, the purpose becomes clear. The puzzle has come together; it's a ideal seasonal storm.

At this stage, Meghan resembles the eccentric aunt at most festive family gatherings – offering random tips, 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 an interesting figure, but her presence is familiar and strangely comforting. And she appears happy enough; she's causing a bit of damage.

She knows her each tiny facial movement, syllable and glance will be dissected and criticised, but still appears relaxed and serenely untroubled.

Perhaps this is the first occasion in history where that well-worn saying – "Don't listen, it's pure jealousy" – could actually be true. The reason is, let's face it, everything in Meghan's Holiday Celebration honestly feels delightful. Admittedly, it's all painfully excessive, nonsense and extravagant – but isn't that exactly what Yuletide is about? And the talk she's talking might be absurd, but the life she leads appears to be shop-bought.

Anything she sets her mind to, she accomplishes with panache. Her cooking looks delicious, the festive decoration she makes is breathtaking, her presents are practically too exquisite to tear into. Nothing is ordinary or ugly – even the way she ties her apron is creative and fashionable. She doesn't throw a meal in the oven, it "takes a twirl", and she creases gift paper like an craft master. She also seems to be thoroughly enjoying herself the entire time. How could any hate-watcher not be won over, overcome by seasonal cheer and left with a intense desire for personalized Christmas crackers or a crudites platter where broccoli is positioned in the likeness of a Christmas ring?

Meghan was once an actress for a living, of course, but even so, after the level of examination she has faced ever since she met Prince Harry, a theoretical combination of acting royalty would find it hard to appear this genuinely. Her decision to alter or even tone down her shtick, despite it being so constantly, internationally ridiculed, is strangely reassuring. In our volatile world, here is one thing we can count on: Meghan will be like this, no matter what. We will always know our position with her.

If you're still not buying what she's selling, a point that will surely come as a reassurance: you aren't required to. There isn't national service these days, and if there were, it would be improbable to include streaming With Love, Meghan: Holiday Celebration. If, however, you decide to tune in and are overcome with jealousy about her idyllic Christmas, all is not lost either. Whether you're a duchess or a everyday person, few children fully understands the time and energy their parent expends in the holiday season. So you can take heart by picturing Archie and Lilibet's faces when they open a beautifully scripted letter that says, 'I love you because you are brave,' from a homemade Advent calendar, in place of a chocolate.