Admittedly, it's Full of Nonsense, Over-the-Top Hospitality and Self-Help Jargon. However, I Honestly Cherish Meghan's Christmas Special.

No considering the time of year, it's always open season for criticism on the Meghan Markle's TV show, With Love, Meghan. Reviewers, from seasoned journalists to online pundits, have hardly ever agreed so completely as when gleefully ripping the lifestyle show's initial installments to pieces. The common opinion held that a greater royal outrage had never been witnessed than the now-infamous pretzel re-packaging incident.

Currently, like a merry renegade master, she makes a comeback with a new offering with a "Festive Special" (also known as a Christmas special). However on this occasion, the dynamic has changed. The standard components we've come to expect – vague self-help platitudes, overzealous entertaining – are still present, but within the context of a yuletide episode, the purpose becomes clear. The elements have slid into place; it's a ideal seasonal storm.

At this stage, Meghan resembles the oddball family member at Christmas celebrations everywhere – offering random tips, and contributing 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 oddly reassuring. And she looks pleased; she's not doing any harm.

She understands her each tiny facial movement, utterance and gaze will be dissected and judged, but manages to seem carefree and too blessed to be stressed.

Maybe this is the initial instance in history where that well-worn saying – "Ignore them, they're just jealous" – might be true. Because, in all honesty, each element in Meghan's Holiday Celebration honestly feels delightful. Yes, it's all cringily ultra-extra, nonsense and flamboyant – but is that not just what Christmas is all about? And the words she speaks might be laughable, but the walk she's walking seems authentically beautifully curated.

Anything she attempts, she executes with flair. Her culinary efforts looks scrumptious, the wreath she makes is gorgeous, her gifts are practically too exquisite to open. Nothing is average or visually unappealing – including the way she fastens her kitchen garment is creative and fashionable. She doesn't bung a dish in the oven, it "goes for a spin", and she folds wrapping paper like an craft master. She also seems to be completely savoring herself the entire time. How could any skeptical viewer not be won over, filled with festive joy and left with a powerful yearning for crafted festive snaps or a vegetable display where broccoli is positioned in the likeness of a Christmas ring?

Meghan had a career in acting for a living, naturally, but even so, after the intensity of examination she has faced since she became involved with Prince Harry, a theoretical combination of Meryl Streep and Judi Dench would find it hard to appear this genuinely. Her decision to alter or even soften her persona, despite it being so persistently, widely parodied, is strangely reassuring. In our unpredictable world, here is something we can rely on: Meghan will be like this, whatever happens. We will consistently know what to expect with her.

If you're still not buying what she's selling, a reminder that will certainly come as a relief: you don't have to. We don't have mandatory conscription these days, and were it to return, it would be unlikely to include viewing With Love, Meghan: Holiday Celebration. If, on the other hand, you decide to tune in and are overcome with longing about her idyllic Christmas, you can take solace either. Whether you're a royal or a everyday person, no kid completely grasps the time and energy their mother does in December. So you can find comfort by picturing her children's faces when they reveal a handwritten message that says, 'I love you because you are brave,' from a homemade Advent calendar, instead of a sweet treat.