Wrapping: Knocked out in a minute, surely, with perfunctory green bauble, twinkling snowflakes and Glee in big red lettering. Inside is a centrefold of stockings for all your Glee favourites from American TV phenomenon of 2010.

Content: Includes songs from the Christmas episode, apparently. Far too jolly Last Christmas, impossibly merry Jingle Bells; oh, and Canadian chanteuse kd lang adding sang froid to You’re A Mean One, Mr Grinch.

Style: Polished, happy, shiny pop, spanning gospel, Britney R&B, soulful balladry, carols, festive pop favourites and show tunes, sung routinely.

’Tis the reason to be jolly: Amber ‘Mercedes’ Riley’s big gospel number, Angels We Have Heard On High, resisting the Mariah and Whitney vibrato.

Scrooge moan: Cynicism of an unstoppable brand that has milked every opportunity over five albums, Madonna EP, Journey mini-album and two DVDs already this year.

White Christmas? No, only on the artwork.

Blue Christmas? Don’t be ridiculous. Glee means joy, joy, joy unalloyed.

Stocking or shocking? Gleefully received by countless children on Christmas Day, but cast out for the car boot sale down the line.