Yes, it's Brimming with Nonsense, Extreme Hosting and Self-Help Jargon. Yet I Truly Cherish Meghan's Festive Episode.

No concerned with the season, it's constantly fair game for scrutiny on the Duchess of Sussex's TV show, With Love, Meghan. Commentators, both professional and armchair, have hardly ever agreed so completely as when enthusiastically shredding the lifestyle show's earlier episodes apart. The prevailing view was that a bigger monarchy-related faux pas had seldom occurred than the notorious pretzel re-packaging incident.

Currently, as a festive rebel, she has returned once again with a "Christmas Special" (or a yuletide episode). Yet now, things have shifted. The familiar ingredients audiences anticipate – meaningless jargon salads, overzealous entertaining – are still present, but within the context of a yuletide episode, suddenly it all makes sense. The pieces have fallen perfectly; it's a ideal seasonal storm.

Now, Meghan resembles the eccentric aunt at the typical holiday get-together – providing random tips, and delivering 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 unexpectedly soothing. And she appears happy enough; she's inflicting a bit of damage.

She knows her every micro expression, syllable and look will be dissected and criticised, but still appears 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. The reason is, in all honesty, everything in Meghan's Holiday Celebration is charming. Granted, it's all cringily ultra-extra, silliness and flamboyant – but doesn't that represent exactly what Christmas is for? And the words she speaks might be absurd, but the example she sets appears to be shop-bought.

Anything she sets her mind to, she pulls off with panache. Her culinary efforts looks delicious, the holiday arrangement she crafts is gorgeous, her gifts are practically too exquisite to open. Nothing is ordinary or ugly – including the way she secures her kitchen garment is artful and chic. She doesn't toss a dish in the oven, it "takes a twirl", and she wraps gift paper like an craft master. She also seems to be genuinely relishing herself from start to finish. How could any hate-watcher not be charmed, bursting with festive joy and left with a powerful yearning for handmade crackers or a crudites platter where broccoli is positioned in the likeness of a wreath?

Meghan used to pretend for a living, naturally, but despite that, after the level of scrutiny she has faced from the moment she met Prince Harry, the love child of two legendary actresses would find it hard to appear this naturally. Her decision to modify or even moderate her persona, regardless of it being so relentlessly, globally mocked, is strangely reassuring. In our uncertain world, here is something we can count on: Meghan will stay true to form, whatever happens. We will forever know where we are with her.

If you're not yet convinced by her brand, a reminder that will undoubtedly come as a comfort: you aren't required to. There isn't the draft anymore, and if there were, it would be improbable to include viewing With Love, Meghan: Holiday Celebration. If, conversely, you willingly check it out and are consumed by envy about her flawless Christmas, you can take solace either. Be you a royal or a everyday person, no kid completely grasps the time and energy their parent expends in the holiday season. So you can console yourself by envisioning her children's faces when they open a handwritten message that says, 'I love you because you are brave,' from a handcrafted holiday countdown, in place of a sweet treat.