Yes, it's Brimming with Absurdity, Over-the-Top Hospitality and Self-Help Jargon. However, I Honestly Cherish Meghan's Holiday Special.

No concerned with the time of year, it's constantly hunting season for scrutiny on the Duchess of Sussex's TV show, With Love, Meghan. Critics, both professional and armchair, have hardly ever agreed so completely as when gleefully ripping the series' earlier episodes to pieces. The prevailing view was that a greater royal outrage had seldom occurred than the notorious snack re-labeling incident.

Presently, as a festive rebel, she makes a comeback for another round with a "Christmas Special" (or a Christmas special). But this time, things have shifted. The usual elements audiences anticipate – psychobabble word salads, overzealous entertaining – are still present, but framed of a yuletide episode, the purpose becomes clear. The pieces have fallen into place; it's a perfect snow storm.

By this point, Meghan is like the eccentric aunt at most festive family gatherings – providing unasked-for guidance, and supplying 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 aura is known and unexpectedly soothing. And she looks pleased; she's not doing a bit of damage.

She is aware her all subtle gestures, syllable and look will be dissected and scrutinized, but still appears carefree and serenely untroubled.

Maybe this is the only time in history where that clichéd phrase – "Ignore them, they're just jealous" – might be true. Because, you know what?, each element in Meghan's Holiday Celebration honestly feels delightful. Admittedly, it's all awkwardly over-the-top, silliness and extravagant – but isn't that precisely what Yuletide is all about? And the advice she gives might be ridiculous, but the example she sets genuinely looks shop-bought.

Whatever she attempts, she executes with style. Her culinary efforts looks delicious, the wreath she makes is breathtaking, her presents are practically too exquisite to open. Nothing is ordinary or visually unappealing – including the way she ties her kitchen garment is stylish and elegant. She doesn't bung a meal in the oven, it "takes a twirl", and she folds wrapping paper like an paper-folding expert. She also seems to be genuinely relishing herself throughout. How could any cynical observer not be won over, bursting with seasonal cheer and left with a deep longing for personalized Christmas crackers or a vegetable display where greens is organized in the form of a Christmas ring?

Meghan was once an actress for a living, of course, but even so, after the degree of scrutiny she has faced from the moment she became involved with Prince Harry, a theoretical combination of two legendary actresses would have difficulty behaving this naturally. Her refusal to alter or even tone down her persona, despite it being so relentlessly, internationally ridiculed, is strangely reassuring. In our unpredictable world, here is one thing we can count 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 her message, a point that will undoubtedly come as a reassurance: you aren't required to. We don't have the draft these days, and if there were, it would be unlikely to include viewing With Love, Meghan: Holiday Celebration. If, however, you willingly check it out and are overcome with longing about her picture-perfect Christmas, you can take solace either. Be you a royal or a everyday person, hardly any child truly appreciates the effort and hard work their mother puts in in December. So you can take heart by envisioning Archie and Lilibet's faces when they reveal a calligraphy note that says, 'I love you because you are brave,' from a DIY festive calendar, instead of a candy.