Yes, it's Brimming with Gibberish, Extreme Hosting and Self-Help Jargon. Yet I Truly Love Meghan's Holiday Special.

No considering the time of year, it's constantly hunting season for commentary on the Meghan Markle's Netflix series, With Love, Meghan. Critics, expert and amateur alike, have hardly ever agreed so completely as when eagerly tearing the lifestyle show's first and second seasons apart. The common opinion held that a greater royal outrage had seldom occurred than the now-infamous pretzel re-packaging incident.

Presently, like a merry renegade master, she is back with a new offering with a "Festive Special" (or a Christmas special). However on this occasion, the dynamic has changed. The familiar ingredients viewers are accustomed to – psychobabble word salads, overzealous entertaining – are still present, but framed of a holiday show, it all clicks into place. The elements have slid together; it's a flawless festive blizzard.

At this stage, Meghan is like the eccentric aunt at the typical holiday get-together – offering unsolicited, unnecessary advice, 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 quite a personality, but her presence is familiar and strangely comforting. And she appears happy enough; she's not doing the slightest hurt.

She understands her every micro expression, utterance and look will be analyzed and criticised, but still appears relaxed and too blessed to be stressed.

Perhaps this is the first occasion in history where that old chestnut – "Ignore them, they're just jealous" – may well be true. The reason is, let's face it, each element in Meghan's Holiday Celebration honestly feels lovely. Yes, it's all cringily ultra-extra, nonsense and flamboyant – but is that not exactly what Yuletide is for? And the words she speaks might be absurd, but the life she leads appears to be shop-bought.

Anything she sets her mind to, she pulls off with panache. Her culinary efforts looks tasty, the wreath she creates is stunning, her presents are nearly too beautiful to open. Not a single thing is average or ugly – including the way she ties her kitchen garment is creative and fashionable. She doesn't toss a meal in the microwave, it "goes for a spin", and she folds gift paper like an origami guru. She also seems to be completely savoring herself the entire time. How could any hate-watcher not be convinced, overcome by seasonal cheer and left with a powerful yearning for handmade crackers or a vegetable display where greens is positioned in the form of a festive circle?

Meghan used to pretend for a living, of course, but despite that, after the intensity of scrutiny she has endured ever since she met Prince Harry, the love child of acting royalty would find it hard to appear this genuinely. Her unwillingness to modify or even tone down her persona, regardless of 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 always know what to expect with her.

If you're not yet convinced by her message, a point that will undoubtedly come as a relief: you aren't required to. We don't have the draft anymore, and if there were, it would be unlikely to include viewing With Love, Meghan: Holiday Celebration. If, on the other hand, you willingly check it out and are gripped with envy about her flawless Christmas, you can take solace either. Be you a duchess or a data administrator, hardly any child fully understands the effort and hard work their mum does in the holiday season. So you can take heart by picturing the young royals' faces when they unfold a handwritten message that says, 'I love you because you are brave,' from a handcrafted holiday countdown, rather than a candy.

Robert Rodriguez
Robert Rodriguez

A seasoned casino strategist with over a decade of experience in gaming analysis and player psychology.