Admittedly, it's Brimming with Absurdity, Over-the-Top Hospitality and Psychobabble. However, I Honestly Adore Meghan's Holiday Special.

No matter the time of year, it's always fair game for scrutiny on the Duchess of Sussex's televisual offering, With Love, Meghan. Reviewers, expert and amateur alike, have seldom found such common ground as when eagerly tearing the lifestyle show's first and second seasons apart. The prevailing view held that a more egregious regal scandal had hardly ever taken place than the much-discussed pretzel re-packaging incident.

Currently, in the spirit of a holiday maverick, she makes a comeback with a new offering with a "Holiday Celebration" (also known as a Christmas special). However on this occasion, the dynamic has changed. The familiar ingredients viewers are accustomed to – psychobabble word salads, extreme hosting – persist, but framed of a Christmas special, it all clicks into place. The puzzle has come into place; it's a perfect snow storm.

By this point, Meghan has become the oddball family member at most festive family gatherings – providing unasked-for guidance, 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 an interesting figure, but her aura is known and oddly reassuring. And she looks pleased; she's inflicting the slightest hurt.

She knows her each tiny facial movement, utterance and look will be picked apart and judged, but manages to seem unburdened and remarkably at ease.

Perhaps this is the initial instance in history where that well-worn saying – "Pay no mind, it's only envy" – might be true. The reason is, in all honesty, everything in Meghan's Holiday Celebration honestly feels lovely. Yes, it's all cringily ultra-extra, nonsense and extravagant – but is that not just what Christmas is about? And the words she speaks might be absurd, but the example she sets seems authentically beautifully curated.

Whatever she turns her beautifully manicured, diamond-adorned hand to, she executes with style. Her cooking looks scrumptious, the festive decoration she creates is breathtaking, her gifts are nearly too beautiful to open. Not a single thing is mediocre or aesthetically displeasing – even the way she secures her apron is artful and chic. She doesn't bung a meal in the oven, it "takes a twirl", and she folds wrapping paper like an craft master. She also seems to be thoroughly enjoying herself throughout. How could any hate-watcher not be convinced, overcome by seasonal cheer and left with a intense desire for crafted festive snaps or a vegetable display where broccoli is organized in the likeness of a wreath?

Meghan had a career in acting for a living, naturally, but nonetheless, after the degree of attention she has faced since she started dating Prince Harry, even a hypothetical offspring of acting royalty would have difficulty behaving this naturally. Her decision to alter or even moderate her shtick, even though it being so constantly, widely parodied, is strangely reassuring. In our uncertain world, here is one thing we can rely on: Meghan will remain herself, whatever happens. We will forever know our position with her.

If you're still not buying what she's selling, a reminder that will undoubtedly come as a relief: you aren't required to. There isn't national service these days, and if there were, it would be improbable to include watching With Love, Meghan: Holiday Celebration. If, on the other hand, you willingly check it out and are overcome with jealousy about her idyllic Christmas, there is hope either. If you are a duchess or a everyday person, few children completely grasps the dedication and labor their mother does in the holiday season. So you can console yourself by imagining Archie and Lilibet's faces when they reveal a handwritten message that says, 'I love you because you are brave,' from a DIY festive calendar, instead of a sweet treat.