Indeed, it's Full of Absurdity, Over-the-Top Hospitality and Self-Help Jargon. Yet I Truly Love Meghan's Holiday Special.

No matter the time of year, it's perpetually fair game for criticism on the Duchess of Sussex's TV show, With Love, Meghan. Critics, from seasoned journalists to online pundits, have hardly ever agreed so completely as when eagerly tearing the lifestyle show's first and second seasons to pieces. The common opinion was that a greater royal outrage had seldom occurred than the now-infamous pretzel-bagging incident.

Now, like a merry renegade master, she has returned once again with a "Holiday Celebration" (or a holiday episode). But this time, it's different. The familiar ingredients we've come to expect – psychobabble word salads, intense hospitality – persist, but framed of a Christmas special, it all clicks into place. The pieces have fallen into place; it's a ideal seasonal storm.

Now, Meghan resembles the oddball family member at most festive family gatherings – dispensing unasked-for guidance, 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 company is customary and strangely comforting. And she looks happy enough; she's not doing any harm.

She understands her each tiny facial movement, word and gaze will be dissected and judged, but nonetheless looks carefree and too blessed to be stressed.

It could be this is the initial instance in history where that old chestnut – "Don't listen, it's pure jealousy" – could actually be true. Since, you know what?, each element in Meghan's Holiday Celebration honestly feels lovely. Admittedly, it's all cringily ultra-extra, nonsense and flamboyant – but doesn't that represent precisely what Christmas is for? And the words she speaks might be ridiculous, but the example she sets genuinely looks shop-bought.

Anything she sets her mind to, she accomplishes with style. Her culinary efforts looks scrumptious, the festive decoration she makes is stunning, her gifts are nearly too beautiful to tear into. Not a single thing is ordinary or visually unappealing – even the way she ties her apron is creative and fashionable. She doesn't throw a meal in the microwave, it "goes for a spin", and she creases wrapping paper like an craft master. She also seems to be completely savoring herself from start to finish. How could any hate-watcher not be convinced, filled with festive joy and left with a intense desire for handmade crackers or a vegetable display where broccoli is organized in the shape of a Christmas ring?

Meghan had a career in acting for a living, of course, but nonetheless, after the intensity of attention she has endured from the moment she became involved with Prince Harry, a theoretical combination of acting royalty would find it hard to appear this genuinely. Her refusal to alter or even soften her shtick, even though it being so relentlessly, globally mocked, is strangely reassuring. In our unpredictable world, here is something we can count on: Meghan will remain herself, no matter what. We will always know where we are with her.

If you're still not buying her brand, a point that will undoubtedly come as a comfort: you are not obligated to. The UK has abolished mandatory conscription these days, and should it be reinstated, it would be unlikely to include streaming With Love, Meghan: Holiday Celebration. If, however, you willingly check it out and are consumed by longing about her idyllic Christmas, there is hope either. If you are a duchess or a everyday person, few children truly appreciates the effort and hard work their mother puts in in December. So you can console yourself by envisioning Archie and Lilibet's faces when they unfold a beautifully scripted letter that says, 'I love you because you are brave,' from a homemade Advent calendar, rather than a chocolate.