Yes, it's Full of Gibberish, Extreme Hosting and Psychobabble. Yet I Truly Adore Meghan's Holiday Special.

No considering the time of year, it's perpetually open season for scrutiny on the Duchess of Sussex's televisual offering, With Love, Meghan. Reviewers, both professional and armchair, have rarely been so united as when enthusiastically shredding the series' first and second seasons to shreds. The general consensus seemed to be a more egregious regal scandal had seldom occurred than the now-infamous pretzel-bagging incident.

Presently, in the spirit of a holiday maverick, she is back once again with a "Festive Special" (also known as a holiday episode). However on this occasion, things have shifted. The standard components viewers are accustomed to – vague self-help platitudes, intense hospitality – remain, but framed of a Christmas special, the purpose becomes clear. The pieces have fallen together; it's a perfect snow storm.

Now, Meghan resembles the quirky relative at the typical holiday get-together – dispensing random tips, 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 oddly reassuring. And she seems pleased; she's causing a bit of damage.

She understands her every micro expression, syllable and look will be analyzed and criticised, but nonetheless looks relaxed and remarkably at ease.

Perhaps this is the only time in history where that clichéd phrase – "Don't listen, it's pure jealousy" – may well be true. Because, in all honesty, everything in Meghan's Holiday Celebration is lovely. Yes, it's all painfully excessive, nonsense and extravagant – but is that not just what Yuletide is for? And the advice she gives might be laughable, but the example she sets seems authentically beautifully curated.

Anything she sets her mind to, she accomplishes with panache. Her culinary efforts looks delicious, the holiday arrangement she crafts is gorgeous, her gifts are nearly too beautiful to open. Not a single thing is average or visually unappealing – including the way she secures her apron is creative and fashionable. She doesn't throw a dish in the oven, it "goes for a spin", and she creases wrapping paper like an craft master. She also seems to be genuinely relishing herself the entire time. How could any hate-watcher not be charmed, filled with festive joy and left with a powerful yearning for handmade crackers or a vegetable display where greens is positioned in the form of a Christmas ring?

Meghan was once an actress for a living, of course, but nonetheless, after the degree of attention she has endured ever since she became involved with Prince Harry, even a hypothetical offspring of acting royalty would find it hard to appear this naturally. Her unwillingness to modify or even moderate her routine, even though it being so persistently, internationally ridiculed, is strangely reassuring. In our volatile world, here is something we can rely on: Meghan will stay true to form, come what may. We will forever know our position with her.

If you're not yet convinced by her brand, a point that will certainly come as a comfort: you aren't required to. We don't have national service these days, and if there were, it would be unlikely to include streaming With Love, Meghan: Holiday Celebration. If, conversely, you willingly check it out and are overcome with jealousy about her picture-perfect Christmas, there is hope either. Whether you're a duchess or a everyday person, no kid fully understands the effort and hard work their parent expends in the holiday season. So you can take heart by imagining Archie and Lilibet's faces when they unfold a beautifully scripted letter that says, 'I love you because you are brave,' from a handcrafted holiday countdown, instead of a chocolate.