Yes, it's Brimming with Nonsense, Over-the-Top Hospitality and Self-Help Jargon. However, I Honestly Cherish Meghan's Festive Episode.

No concerned with the season, it's constantly open season for criticism on the Duchess of Sussex's Netflix series, With Love, Meghan. Critics, both professional and armchair, have seldom found such common ground as when eagerly tearing the lifestyle show's earlier episodes apart. The common opinion held that a greater royal outrage had seldom occurred than the now-infamous pretzel re-packaging incident.

Now, in the spirit of a holiday maverick, she makes a comeback with a new offering with a "Festive Special" (or a yuletide episode). However on this occasion, it's different. The usual elements viewers are accustomed to – vague self-help platitudes, intense hospitality – persist, but within the context of a holiday show, suddenly it all makes sense. The puzzle has come into place; it's a ideal seasonal storm.

At this stage, Meghan is like the eccentric aunt at the typical holiday get-together – offering unsolicited, unnecessary advice, and supplying 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 a bit of a character, but her presence is familiar and oddly reassuring. And she looks pleased; she's not doing any harm.

She understands her every micro expression, word and glance will be dissected and judged, but still appears carefree and serenely untroubled.

Perhaps this is the first occasion in history where that well-worn saying – "Pay no mind, it's only envy" – might be true. The reason is, you know what?, all aspects in Meghan's Holiday Celebration truly is lovely. Admittedly, it's all cringily ultra-extra, foolishness and flamboyant – but isn't that precisely what Christmas is all about? And the words she speaks might be ridiculous, but the example she sets seems authentically shop-bought.

Anything she sets her mind to, she accomplishes with panache. Her culinary efforts looks tasty, the wreath she creates is breathtaking, her presents are nearly too beautiful to tear into. Not a single thing is average or ugly – including the way she ties her apron is stylish and elegant. She doesn't bung a meal in the microwave, it "goes for a spin", and she folds wrapping paper like an craft master. She also seems to be genuinely relishing herself throughout. How could any skeptical viewer not be won over, bursting with holiday spirit and left with a deep longing for handmade crackers or a vegetable display where broccoli is positioned in the shape of a wreath?

Meghan used to pretend for a living, of course, but despite that, after the degree of examination she has weathered since she started dating Prince Harry, even a hypothetical offspring of acting royalty would have difficulty behaving this authentically. Her unwillingness to alter or even tone down her routine, despite it being so constantly, globally mocked, is oddly heartening. In our unpredictable world, here is something we can rely on: Meghan will be like this, no matter what. We will forever know where we are with her.

If you're still not buying her message, a point that will certainly come as a reassurance: you aren't required to. There isn't the draft in this country, and if there were, it would be doubtful to include streaming With Love, Meghan: Holiday Celebration. If, conversely, you willingly check it out and are gripped with jealousy about her picture-perfect Christmas, you can take solace either. If you are a duchess or a everyday person, hardly any child fully understands the time and energy their mother does in the holiday season. So you can console yourself by envisioning Archie and Lilibet's faces when they reveal a handwritten message that says, 'I love you because you are brave,' from a homemade Advent calendar, in place of a sweet treat.