Indeed, it's Packed with Nonsense, Over-the-Top Hospitality and Psychobabble. But I Do Love Meghan's Festive Episode.

No matter the time of year, it's always open season for scrutiny on the Meghan Markle's TV show, With Love, Meghan. Reviewers, from seasoned journalists to online pundits, have seldom found such common ground as when gleefully ripping the program's initial installments to shreds. The common opinion held that a more egregious regal scandal had seldom occurred than the now-infamous pretzel re-packaging incident.

Now, like a merry renegade master, she is back for another round with a "Holiday Celebration" (aka a holiday episode). However on this occasion, it's different. The standard components viewers are accustomed to – vague self-help platitudes, intense hospitality – are still present, but framed of a yuletide episode, it all clicks into place. The pieces have fallen together; it's a ideal seasonal storm.

Now, Meghan is like the quirky relative at most festive family gatherings – dispensing unasked-for guidance, 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 oddly reassuring. And she seems pleased; she's causing any harm.

She knows her every micro expression, syllable and look will be picked apart and judged, but still appears carefree and remarkably at ease.

It could be this is the first occasion in history where that clichéd phrase – "Pay no mind, it's only envy" – might be true. Since, let's face it, everything in Meghan's Holiday Celebration truly is delightful. Granted, it's all painfully excessive, nonsense and flamboyant – but isn't that just what the holiday season is all about? And the talk she's talking might be ridiculous, but the walk she's walking seems authentically shop-bought.

Whatever she attempts, she pulls off with style. Her culinary efforts looks delicious, the festive decoration she makes is breathtaking, her gifts are nearly too beautiful to unwrap. Not a single thing is ordinary or visually unappealing – including the way she secures her apron is artful and chic. She doesn't throw a meal in the oven, it "takes a twirl", and she wraps gift paper like an craft master. She also seems to be thoroughly enjoying herself throughout. How could any skeptical viewer not be convinced, bursting with seasonal cheer and left with a intense desire for personalized Christmas crackers or a vegetable display where greens is organized in the likeness of a festive circle?

Meghan was once an actress for a living, naturally, but even so, after the level of examination she has faced ever since she started dating Prince Harry, the love child of two legendary actresses would have difficulty behaving this authentically. Her decision to alter or even soften her persona, regardless of it being so relentlessly, globally mocked, is weirdly comforting. In our volatile world, here is something we can depend on: Meghan will remain herself, no matter what. We will forever know our position with her.

If you're remaining skeptical of what she's selling, a reminder that will certainly come as a comfort: you are not obligated to. The UK has abolished the draft anymore, and if there were, it would be unlikely to include streaming With Love, Meghan: Holiday Celebration. If, however, you willingly check it out and are consumed by jealousy about her flawless Christmas, you can take solace either. If you are a royal or a office worker, no kid fully understands the dedication and labor their mum puts in in December. So you can take heart by picturing her children's faces when they unfold a calligraphy note that says, 'I love you because you are brave,' from a DIY festive calendar, instead of a sweet treat.