Yes, it's Full of Absurdity, Extreme Hosting and Self-Help Jargon. Yet I Truly Love Meghan's Festive Episode.

No considering the season, it's perpetually fair game for scrutiny on the Duchess of Sussex's TV show, With Love, Meghan. Commentators, expert and amateur alike, have seldom found such common ground as when gleefully ripping the lifestyle show's first and second seasons to shreds. The common opinion seemed to be a more egregious regal scandal had never been witnessed than the notorious pretzel-bagging incident.

Now, like a merry renegade master, she makes a comeback with a new offering with a "Christmas Special" (or a yuletide episode). But this time, things have shifted. The familiar ingredients viewers are accustomed to – meaningless jargon salads, overzealous entertaining – persist, but within the context of a holiday show, suddenly it all makes sense. The elements have slid into place; it's a ideal seasonal storm.

By this point, Meghan is like the oddball family member at most festive family gatherings – dispensing unsolicited, unnecessary advice, and delivering 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 a bit of a character, but her company is customary and strangely comforting. And she appears happy enough; she's inflicting the slightest hurt.

She knows her each tiny facial movement, utterance and look will be analyzed and criticised, but still appears unburdened and remarkably at ease.

Maybe this is the only time in history where that clichéd phrase – "Pay no mind, it's only envy" – could actually be true. Because, let's face it, each element in Meghan's Holiday Celebration truly is charming. Yes, it's all cringily ultra-extra, foolishness and flamboyant – but is that not precisely what Yuletide is for? And the words she speaks might be absurd, but the life she leads appears to be shop-bought.

Whatever she sets her mind to, she pulls off with style. Her cooking looks delicious, the festive decoration she crafts is breathtaking, her presents are nearly too beautiful to open. Nothing is ordinary or visually unappealing – including the way she fastens her apron is stylish and elegant. She doesn't bung a meal in the microwave, it "has a moment", and she wraps wrapping paper like an origami guru. She also seems to be completely savoring herself from start to finish. How could any hate-watcher not be convinced, bursting with holiday spirit and left with a deep longing for crafted festive snaps or a crudites platter where broccoli is positioned in the shape of a festive circle?

Meghan was once an actress for a living, of course, but even so, after the intensity of attention she has faced ever since she became involved with Prince Harry, a theoretical combination of acting royalty would find it hard to appear this naturally. Her unwillingness to change or even tone down her persona, even though it being so persistently, globally mocked, is strangely reassuring. In our volatile world, here is something we can depend on: Meghan will remain herself, whatever happens. We will always know what to expect with her.

If you're remaining skeptical of her message, a thought that will undoubtedly come as a reassurance: you aren't required to. We don't have national service anymore, and if there were, it would be unlikely to include watching With Love, Meghan: Holiday Celebration. If, conversely, you decide to tune in and are overcome with envy about her idyllic Christmas, there is hope either. Be you a royal or a office worker, no kid completely grasps the dedication and labor their parent expends in December. So you can find comfort by picturing the young royals' faces when they reveal a beautifully scripted letter that says, 'I love you because you are brave,' from a DIY festive calendar, instead of a candy.