Admittedly, it's Packed with Absurdity, Extreme Hosting and Self-Help Jargon. But I Do Adore Meghan's Christmas Special.

No matter the time of year, it's perpetually open season for scrutiny on the Duchess of Sussex's televisual offering, With Love, Meghan. Commentators, from seasoned journalists to online pundits, have hardly ever agreed so completely as when eagerly tearing the lifestyle show's initial installments to shreds. The general consensus was that a greater royal outrage had seldom occurred than the notorious pretzel re-packaging incident.

Presently, like a merry renegade master, she makes a comeback for another round with a "Holiday Celebration" (aka a holiday episode). However on this occasion, things have shifted. The familiar ingredients audiences anticipate – psychobabble word salads, intense hospitality – persist, but framed of a yuletide episode, it all clicks into place. The elements have slid together; it's a ideal seasonal storm.

Now, Meghan has become the quirky relative at most festive family gatherings – providing unasked-for guidance, 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 company is customary and oddly reassuring. And she seems happy enough; she's causing the slightest hurt.

She understands her each tiny facial movement, syllable and glance will be analyzed and scrutinized, but manages to seem unburdened and remarkably at ease.

It could be this is the first occasion in history where that old chestnut – "Ignore them, they're just jealous" – might be true. Because, in all honesty, all aspects in Meghan's Holiday Celebration honestly feels charming. Granted, it's all awkwardly over-the-top, foolishness and over the top – but is that not just what Christmas is all about? And the advice she gives might be absurd, but the example she sets seems authentically impeccably styled.

Anything she turns her beautifully manicured, diamond-adorned hand to, she pulls off with flair. Her recipes looks delicious, the festive decoration she creates is breathtaking, her presents are almost too pretty to unwrap. Not a single thing is average or aesthetically displeasing – even the way she secures her kitchen garment is stylish and elegant. She doesn't toss a dish in the microwave, it "takes a twirl", and she creases gift paper like an paper-folding expert. She also seems to be completely savoring herself throughout. How could any skeptical viewer not be won over, bursting with seasonal cheer and left with a deep longing for handmade crackers or a vegetable display where greens is organized in the shape of a festive circle?

Meghan used to pretend for a living, of course, but despite that, after the level of examination she has endured from the moment she met Prince Harry, a theoretical combination of two legendary actresses would have difficulty behaving this genuinely. Her unwillingness to change or even soften her shtick, despite it being so relentlessly, globally mocked, is strangely reassuring. In our volatile world, here is one thing we can depend on: Meghan will remain herself, come what may. We will always know our position with her.

If you're remaining skeptical of her brand, a point that will surely come as a comfort: you don't have to. We don't have mandatory conscription anymore, and were it to return, it would be doubtful to include watching With Love, Meghan: Holiday Celebration. If, however, you choose to watch and are overcome with longing about her flawless Christmas, you can take solace either. Be you a duchess or a data administrator, hardly any child fully understands the time and energy their mother does in December. So you can find comfort by envisioning Archie and Lilibet's faces when they reveal a beautifully scripted letter that says, 'I love you because you are brave,' from a handcrafted holiday countdown, in place of a candy.