Admittedly, it's Packed with Absurdity, Over-the-Top Hospitality and Psychobabble. However, I Honestly Adore Meghan's Festive Episode.

No considering the time of year, it's constantly open season for commentary on the Duchess of Sussex's Netflix series, With Love, Meghan. Commentators, expert and amateur alike, have rarely been so united as when gleefully ripping the program's first and second seasons apart. The common opinion was that a more egregious regal scandal had seldom occurred than the now-infamous snack re-labeling incident.

Presently, as a festive rebel, she makes a comeback for another round with a "Christmas Special" (aka a Christmas special). But this time, things have shifted. The usual elements we've come to expect – vague self-help platitudes, extreme hosting – remain, but set of a holiday show, the purpose becomes clear. The puzzle has come together; it's a ideal seasonal storm.

Now, Meghan has become the eccentric aunt at the typical holiday get-together – providing unsolicited, unnecessary advice, 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 an interesting figure, but her presence is familiar and strangely comforting. And she looks content; she's causing any harm.

She is aware her each tiny facial movement, utterance and gaze will be picked apart and scrutinized, but nonetheless looks unburdened and remarkably at ease.

It could be this is the only time in history where that well-worn saying – "Ignore them, they're just jealous" – may well be true. The reason is, in all honesty, all aspects in Meghan's Holiday Celebration is charming. Admittedly, it's all painfully excessive, silliness and flamboyant – but doesn't that represent just what the holiday season is about? And the advice she gives might be absurd, but the walk she's walking genuinely looks shop-bought.

Anything she sets her mind to, she pulls off with style. Her cooking looks scrumptious, the festive decoration she makes is stunning, her gifts are nearly too beautiful to unwrap. Nothing is mediocre or visually unappealing – even the way she ties her kitchen garment is stylish and elegant. She doesn't toss a dish in the oven, it "has a moment", and she creases gift paper like an craft master. She also seems to be completely savoring herself from start to finish. How could any skeptical viewer not be charmed, overcome by festive joy and left with a deep longing for handmade crackers or a vegetable display where broccoli is arranged in the form of a festive circle?

Meghan was once an actress for a living, of course, but despite that, after the intensity of examination she has weathered ever since she met Prince Harry, even a hypothetical offspring of acting royalty would struggle to act this naturally. Her unwillingness to alter or even moderate her shtick, even though it being so relentlessly, widely parodied, is weirdly comforting. In our volatile world, here is one thing we can depend on: Meghan will remain herself, whatever happens. We will always know where we are with her.

If you're remaining skeptical of her brand, a reminder that will surely come as a reassurance: you aren't required to. There isn't national service these days, and were it to return, it would be improbable to include streaming With Love, Meghan: Holiday Celebration. If, on the other hand, you willingly check it out and are gripped with jealousy about her flawless Christmas, all is not lost either. If you are a duchess or a everyday person, few children completely grasps the time and energy their parent puts in in the holiday season. So you can take heart by imagining Archie and Lilibet's faces when they reveal a beautifully scripted letter that says, 'I love you because you are brave,' from a homemade Advent calendar, instead of a chocolate.