Admittedly, it's Packed with Absurdity, Extreme Hosting and Self-Help Jargon. Yet I Truly Adore Meghan's Festive Episode.

No considering the season, it's constantly open season for criticism on the Meghan Markle's Netflix series, With Love, Meghan. Reviewers, both professional and armchair, have seldom found such common ground as when eagerly tearing the series' first and second seasons apart. The prevailing view was that a bigger monarchy-related faux pas had never been witnessed than the notorious snack re-labeling incident.

Presently, like a merry renegade master, she makes a comeback with a new offering with a "Holiday Celebration" (or a yuletide episode). Yet now, things have shifted. The standard components we've come to expect – meaningless jargon salads, intense hospitality – remain, but set of a Christmas special, suddenly it all makes sense. The elements have slid into place; it's a perfect snow storm.

By this point, Meghan is like the eccentric aunt at most festive family gatherings – providing unsolicited, unnecessary advice, and delivering 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 presence is familiar and oddly reassuring. And she looks pleased; she's causing a bit of damage.

She knows her every micro expression, word and glance will be picked apart and judged, but nonetheless looks relaxed and too blessed to be stressed.

Maybe this is the first occasion in history where that clichéd phrase – "Pay no mind, it's only envy" – may well be true. The reason is, you know what?, all aspects in Meghan's Holiday Celebration truly is lovely. Yes, it's all painfully excessive, silliness and over the top – but doesn't that represent exactly what Christmas is about? And the talk she's talking might be laughable, but the life she leads seems authentically impeccably styled.

Whatever she turns her beautifully manicured, diamond-adorned hand to, she executes with style. Her culinary efforts looks scrumptious, the holiday arrangement she creates is stunning, her gifts are practically too exquisite to tear into. Nothing is ordinary or visually unappealing – including the way she secures her kitchen garment is stylish and elegant. She doesn't throw a meal in the microwave, it "takes a twirl", and she folds wrapping paper like an paper-folding expert. She also seems to be completely savoring herself throughout. How could any hate-watcher not be convinced, overcome by holiday spirit and left with a intense desire for crafted festive snaps or a crudites platter where broccoli is arranged in the likeness of a festive circle?

Meghan was once an actress for a living, obviously, but even so, after the degree of scrutiny she has faced from the moment she started dating Prince Harry, even a hypothetical offspring of acting royalty would find it hard to appear this authentically. Her refusal to modify or even tone down her routine, even though it being so persistently, widely parodied, is strangely reassuring. In our volatile world, here is one thing we can rely on: Meghan will stay true to form, come what may. We will always know what to expect with her.

If you're remaining skeptical of what she's selling, a thought that will undoubtedly come as a relief: you are not obligated to. We don't have mandatory conscription anymore, and were it to return, it would be doubtful to include streaming With Love, Meghan: Holiday Celebration. If, on the other hand, you willingly check it out and are consumed by jealousy about her idyllic Christmas, there is hope either. Be you a royal or a office worker, hardly any child truly appreciates the dedication and labor their mum puts in in December. So you can take heart by envisioning the young royals' faces when they open a calligraphy note that says, 'I love you because you are brave,' from a DIY festive calendar, in place of a candy.