Indeed, it's Full of Absurdity, Over-the-Top Hospitality and Psychobabble. Yet I Truly Adore Meghan's Holiday Special.

No considering the season, it's perpetually hunting season for criticism on the Duchess of Sussex's Netflix series, With Love, Meghan. Critics, both professional and armchair, have rarely been so united as when eagerly tearing the series' first and second seasons to shreds. The common opinion held that a more egregious regal scandal had hardly ever taken place than the now-infamous pretzel-bagging incident.

Currently, as a festive rebel, she makes a comeback for another round with a "Holiday Celebration" (aka a yuletide episode). Yet now, things have shifted. The usual elements audiences anticipate – vague self-help platitudes, intense hospitality – are still present, but framed of a yuletide episode, it all clicks into place. The pieces have fallen into place; it's a ideal seasonal storm.

Now, Meghan has become the oddball family member at most festive family gatherings – offering random tips, and delivering 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 strangely comforting. And she appears pleased; she's inflicting the slightest hurt.

She knows her every micro expression, syllable and gaze will be analyzed and judged, but nonetheless looks carefree and too blessed to be stressed.

Maybe this is the only time in history where that old chestnut – "Pay no mind, it's only envy" – might be true. The reason is, in all honesty, all aspects in Meghan's Holiday Celebration honestly feels charming. Yes, it's all painfully excessive, silliness and flamboyant – but isn't that precisely what the holiday season is for? And the advice she gives might be absurd, but the example she sets genuinely looks shop-bought.

Whatever she attempts, she pulls off with panache. Her culinary efforts looks delicious, the holiday arrangement she creates is gorgeous, her presents are practically too exquisite to unwrap. Not a single thing is ordinary or ugly – including the way she fastens her apron is creative and fashionable. She doesn't throw a dish in the microwave, it "goes for a spin", and she folds wrapping paper like an craft master. She also seems to be thoroughly enjoying herself throughout. How could any cynical observer not be convinced, filled with holiday spirit and left with a powerful yearning for personalized Christmas crackers or a crudites platter where greens is arranged in the shape of a Christmas ring?

Meghan had a career in acting for a living, of course, but even so, after the degree of examination she has weathered from the moment she met Prince Harry, even a hypothetical offspring of two legendary actresses would struggle to act this authentically. Her unwillingness to alter or even tone down her shtick, despite it being so relentlessly, internationally ridiculed, is strangely reassuring. In our volatile world, here is one thing we can depend on: Meghan will remain herself, whatever happens. We will consistently know our position with her.

If you're not yet convinced by her message, a reminder that will surely come as a relief: you don't have to. The UK has abolished mandatory conscription anymore, and were it to return, it would be improbable to include viewing With Love, Meghan: Holiday Celebration. If, however, you choose to watch and are consumed by jealousy about her idyllic Christmas, you can take solace either. Be you a duchess or a everyday person, no kid completely grasps the dedication and labor their parent does in December. So you can find comfort by envisioning the young royals' faces when they unfold a handwritten message that says, 'I love you because you are brave,' from a handcrafted holiday countdown, in place of a chocolate.