Yes, it's Full of Absurdity, Extreme Hosting and Psychobabble. Yet I Truly Love Meghan's Festive Episode.

No matter the time of year, it's perpetually fair game for criticism on the Duchess of Sussex's televisual offering, With Love, Meghan. Reviewers, from seasoned journalists to online pundits, have rarely been so united as when enthusiastically shredding the series' first and second seasons apart. The general consensus seemed to be a more egregious regal scandal had never been witnessed than the much-discussed pretzel re-packaging incident.

Now, like a merry renegade master, she has returned for another round with a "Holiday Celebration" (also known as a yuletide episode). Yet now, it's different. The familiar ingredients audiences anticipate – vague self-help platitudes, overzealous entertaining – persist, but framed of a holiday show, it all clicks into place. The puzzle has come perfectly; it's a flawless festive blizzard.

At this stage, Meghan is like the quirky relative at the typical holiday get-together – providing random tips, 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 a bit of a character, but her company is customary and strangely comforting. And she seems pleased; she's causing the slightest hurt.

She is aware her all subtle gestures, word and look will be analyzed and criticised, but still appears carefree 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" – could actually be true. The reason is, in all honesty, each element in Meghan's Holiday Celebration honestly feels delightful. Yes, it's all painfully excessive, silliness and extravagant – but doesn't that represent just what Yuletide is about? And the talk she's talking might be absurd, but the life she leads seems authentically shop-bought.

Whatever she sets her mind to, she pulls off with flair. Her recipes looks scrumptious, the holiday arrangement she crafts is breathtaking, her gifts are almost too pretty to unwrap. Not a single thing is average or aesthetically displeasing – including the way she secures her apron is creative and fashionable. She doesn't throw a dish in the microwave, it "takes a twirl", and she wraps wrapping paper like an origami guru. She also seems to be thoroughly enjoying herself the entire time. How could any skeptical viewer not be convinced, filled with seasonal cheer and left with a deep longing for personalized Christmas crackers or a vegetable display where greens is positioned in the likeness of a wreath?

Meghan used to pretend for a living, naturally, but despite that, after the degree of examination she has endured from the moment she became involved with Prince Harry, even a hypothetical offspring of acting royalty would find it hard to appear this naturally. Her unwillingness to alter or even tone down her shtick, regardless of it being so constantly, internationally ridiculed, is weirdly comforting. In our volatile world, here is something we can rely on: Meghan will be like this, come what may. We will forever know where we are with her.

If you're still not buying her message, a reminder that will undoubtedly come as a reassurance: you are not obligated to. We don't have mandatory conscription these days, and if there were, it would be unlikely to include viewing With Love, Meghan: Holiday Celebration. If, on the other hand, you choose to watch and are gripped with jealousy about her picture-perfect Christmas, you can take solace either. Whether you're a duchess or a office worker, few children fully understands the dedication and labor their mum puts in in the holiday season. So you can take heart by imagining her children's faces when they open a calligraphy note that says, 'I love you because you are brave,' from a homemade Advent calendar, rather than a sweet treat.