Yes, it's Brimming with Gibberish, Over-the-Top Hospitality and Psychobabble. However, I Honestly Cherish Meghan's Holiday Special.

No matter the season, it's perpetually hunting season for scrutiny on the Duchess of Sussex's televisual offering, With Love, Meghan. Critics, expert and amateur alike, have hardly ever agreed so completely as when eagerly tearing the program's initial installments to shreds. The common opinion seemed to be a more egregious regal scandal had hardly ever taken place than the notorious pretzel re-packaging incident.

Presently, as a festive rebel, she is back once again with a "Festive Special" (or a yuletide episode). However on this occasion, the dynamic has changed. The familiar ingredients we've come to expect – psychobabble word salads, intense hospitality – persist, but set of a Christmas special, suddenly it all makes sense. The puzzle has come perfectly; it's a ideal seasonal storm.

By this point, Meghan has become the oddball family member at the typical holiday get-together – providing unsolicited, unnecessary advice, and supplying the occasional strange exclamation. ("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 looks pleased; she's causing a bit of damage.

She is aware her every micro expression, utterance and gaze will be analyzed and scrutinized, but nonetheless looks carefree and remarkably at ease.

Perhaps this is the first occasion in history where that old chestnut – "Don't listen, it's pure jealousy" – may well be true. The reason is, let's face it, all aspects in Meghan's Holiday Celebration is charming. Yes, it's all cringily ultra-extra, nonsense and flamboyant – but doesn't that represent just what Christmas is all about? And the talk she's talking might be ridiculous, but the example she sets genuinely looks beautifully curated.

Whatever she sets her mind to, she pulls off with panache. Her cooking looks tasty, the festive decoration she crafts is gorgeous, her gifts are nearly too beautiful to open. Not a single thing is average or aesthetically displeasing – even the way she ties her apron is stylish and elegant. She doesn't throw a meal in the microwave, it "takes a twirl", and she creases wrapping paper like an craft master. She also seems to be genuinely relishing herself throughout. How could any cynical observer not be convinced, bursting with seasonal cheer and left with a powerful yearning for crafted festive snaps or a crudites platter where greens is organized in the likeness of a Christmas ring?

Meghan was once an actress for a living, obviously, but even so, after the degree of attention she has faced from the moment she met Prince Harry, even a hypothetical offspring of Meryl Streep and Judi Dench would find it hard to appear this genuinely. Her unwillingness to alter or even soften her shtick, even though it being so relentlessly, widely parodied, is weirdly comforting. In our unpredictable world, here is something we can count on: Meghan will stay true to form, whatever happens. We will always know our position with her.

If you're remaining skeptical of her brand, a point that will surely come as a reassurance: you aren't required to. There isn't mandatory conscription anymore, and if there were, it would be improbable to include viewing With Love, Meghan: Holiday Celebration. If, on the other hand, you choose to watch and are consumed by envy about her idyllic Christmas, there is hope either. Whether you're a royal or a office worker, few children truly appreciates the time and energy their mum expends in the holiday season. So you can console yourself by envisioning Archie and Lilibet's faces when they unfold a handwritten message that says, 'I love you because you are brave,' from a handcrafted holiday countdown, instead of a chocolate.