Admittedly, it's Brimming with Gibberish, Over-the-Top Hospitality and Psychobabble. However, I Honestly Love Meghan's Christmas Special.

No matter the season, it's perpetually fair game for criticism on the Duchess of Sussex's Netflix series, With Love, Meghan. Commentators, expert and amateur alike, have rarely been so united as when enthusiastically shredding the lifestyle show's first and second seasons to pieces. The common opinion seemed to be a greater royal outrage had seldom occurred than the notorious pretzel-bagging incident.

Now, as a festive rebel, she makes a comeback with a new offering with a "Christmas Special" (also known as a yuletide episode). Yet now, the dynamic has changed. The familiar ingredients viewers are accustomed to – vague self-help platitudes, overzealous entertaining – remain, but set of a Christmas special, the purpose becomes clear. The puzzle has come perfectly; it's a perfect snow storm.

Now, Meghan resembles the oddball family member at the typical holiday get-together – providing random tips, and delivering the occasional strange exclamation. ("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 oddly reassuring. And she seems content; she's inflicting a bit of damage.

She knows her each tiny facial movement, utterance and glance will be dissected and scrutinized, but still appears unburdened and too blessed to be stressed.

Maybe this is the only time in history where that well-worn saying – "Don't listen, it's pure jealousy" – may well be true. The reason is, in all honesty, all aspects in Meghan's Holiday Celebration truly is charming. Granted, it's all cringily ultra-extra, silliness and over the top – but isn't that precisely what Yuletide is about? And the advice she gives might be laughable, but the life she leads seems authentically shop-bought.

Whatever she sets her mind to, she pulls off with panache. Her cooking looks scrumptious, the holiday arrangement she creates is stunning, her gifts are nearly too beautiful to tear into. Not a single thing is ordinary or ugly – even the way she secures her apron is stylish and elegant. She doesn't throw a dish in the microwave, it "goes for a spin", and she folds gift paper like an paper-folding expert. She also seems to be genuinely relishing herself the entire time. How could any cynical observer not be charmed, overcome by festive joy and left with a intense desire for crafted festive snaps or a vegetable display where greens is organized in the likeness of a wreath?

Meghan was once an actress for a living, naturally, but even so, after the degree of attention she has weathered since she became involved with Prince Harry, the love child of Meryl Streep and Judi Dench would find it hard to appear this genuinely. Her unwillingness to change or even soften her shtick, even though it being so relentlessly, widely parodied, is oddly heartening. In our uncertain world, here is one thing we can depend on: Meghan will stay true to form, come what may. We will always know what to expect with her.

If you're still not buying what she's selling, a thought that will surely come as a reassurance: you aren't required to. There isn't mandatory conscription these days, and if there were, it would be improbable to include viewing With Love, Meghan: Holiday Celebration. If, conversely, you decide to tune in and are overcome with longing about her picture-perfect Christmas, you can take solace either. Be you a duchess or a office worker, few children fully understands the dedication and labor their mum does in the holiday season. So you can console yourself by picturing the young royals' faces when they reveal a handwritten message that says, 'I love you because you are brave,' from a handcrafted holiday countdown, in place of a sweet treat.