Admittedly, it's Packed with Absurdity, Extreme Hosting and Self-Help Jargon. However, I Honestly Adore Meghan's Holiday Special.

No matter the season, it's always open season for criticism on the Duchess of Sussex's TV show, With Love, Meghan. Reviewers, expert and amateur alike, have seldom found such common ground as when enthusiastically shredding the lifestyle show's first and second seasons to shreds. The prevailing view seemed to be a more egregious regal scandal had hardly ever taken place than the now-infamous pretzel re-packaging incident.

Now, like a merry renegade master, she makes a comeback for another round with a "Holiday Celebration" (aka a Christmas special). However on this occasion, the dynamic has changed. The familiar ingredients audiences anticipate – vague self-help platitudes, overzealous entertaining – are still present, but set of a holiday show, the purpose becomes clear. The pieces have fallen together; it's a ideal seasonal storm.

By this point, Meghan has become the oddball family member at the typical holiday get-together – offering random tips, and delivering 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 quite a personality, but her company is customary and strangely comforting. And she seems happy enough; she's causing a bit of damage.

She is aware her every micro expression, word and glance will be picked apart and scrutinized, but manages to seem unburdened and too blessed to be stressed.

It could be this is the first occasion in history where that well-worn saying – "Ignore them, they're just jealous" – might be true. Since, in all honesty, each element in Meghan's Holiday Celebration truly is lovely. Admittedly, it's all cringily ultra-extra, silliness and extravagant – but isn't that precisely what Yuletide is about? And the talk she's talking might be absurd, but the life she leads genuinely looks shop-bought.

Anything she attempts, she executes with style. Her cooking looks tasty, the wreath she crafts is breathtaking, her presents are practically too exquisite to open. Nothing is ordinary or visually unappealing – including the way she ties her apron is stylish and elegant. She doesn't throw a meal in the microwave, it "goes for a spin", and she creases gift paper like an paper-folding expert. She also seems to be thoroughly enjoying herself from start to finish. How could any hate-watcher not be convinced, overcome by festive joy and left with a deep longing for handmade crackers or a vegetable display where broccoli is positioned in the likeness of a festive circle?

Meghan was once an actress for a living, naturally, but even so, after the degree of scrutiny she has weathered from the moment she met Prince Harry, even a hypothetical offspring of acting royalty would struggle to act this naturally. Her decision to alter or even moderate her persona, regardless of it being so relentlessly, widely parodied, is oddly heartening. In our unpredictable world, here is one thing we can rely on: Meghan will be like this, come what may. We will always know our position with her.

If you're still not buying her message, a reminder that will certainly come as a relief: you aren't required to. The UK has abolished national service anymore, and were it to return, it would be improbable to include streaming With Love, Meghan: Holiday Celebration. If, on the other hand, you choose to watch and are consumed by envy about her picture-perfect Christmas, all is not lost either. If you are a duchess or a data administrator, few children truly appreciates the dedication and labor their mum does in December. So you can find comfort by envisioning the young royals' faces when they open a calligraphy note that says, 'I love you because you are brave,' from a DIY festive calendar, rather than a candy.