Admittedly, it's Brimming with Absurdity, Extreme Hosting and Self-Help Jargon. However, I Honestly Adore Meghan's Festive Episode.

No considering the time of year, it's constantly fair game for criticism on the Meghan Markle's televisual offering, With Love, Meghan. Critics, expert and amateur alike, have seldom found such common ground as when eagerly tearing the series' first and second seasons to shreds. The prevailing view held that a more egregious regal scandal had seldom occurred than the much-discussed pretzel re-packaging incident.

Now, like a merry renegade master, she is back once again with a "Holiday Celebration" (aka a holiday episode). But this time, things have shifted. The familiar ingredients audiences anticipate – vague self-help platitudes, overzealous entertaining – persist, but within the context of a Christmas special, the purpose becomes clear. The puzzle has come perfectly; it's a perfect snow storm.

Now, Meghan has become the oddball family member at most festive family gatherings – dispensing unsolicited, unnecessary advice, and contributing 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 aura is known and oddly reassuring. And she appears happy enough; she's inflicting the slightest hurt.

She knows her every micro expression, word and glance will be picked apart and scrutinized, but manages to seem unburdened and too blessed to be stressed.

It could be this is the first occasion in history where that old chestnut – "Pay no mind, it's only envy" – might be true. Since, let's face it, each element in Meghan's Holiday Celebration honestly feels lovely. Granted, it's all cringily ultra-extra, foolishness and flamboyant – but doesn't that represent just what the holiday season is for? And the talk she's talking might be laughable, but the example she sets appears to be shop-bought.

Whatever she attempts, she accomplishes with panache. Her recipes looks scrumptious, the wreath she makes is stunning, her gifts are almost too pretty to unwrap. Not a single thing is mediocre or aesthetically displeasing – even the way she secures her apron is artful and chic. She doesn't toss a dish in the oven, it "goes for a spin", and she creases gift paper like an origami guru. She also seems to be genuinely relishing herself from start to finish. How could any hate-watcher not be convinced, filled with festive joy and left with a powerful yearning for handmade crackers or a vegetable display where broccoli is positioned in the shape of a festive circle?

Meghan used to pretend for a living, of course, but despite that, after the level of attention she has endured from the moment she met Prince Harry, even a hypothetical offspring of Meryl Streep and Judi Dench would have difficulty behaving this genuinely. Her unwillingness to alter or even moderate her shtick, despite it being so constantly, internationally ridiculed, is strangely reassuring. In our volatile world, here is something we can count on: Meghan will remain herself, no matter what. We will forever know where we are with her.

If you're not yet convinced by her message, a point that will certainly come as a relief: you are not obligated to. We don't have mandatory conscription these days, and were it to return, it would be improbable to include streaming With Love, Meghan: Holiday Celebration. If, however, you choose to watch and are gripped with longing about her flawless Christmas, you can take solace either. Be you a royal or a data administrator, few children truly appreciates the dedication and labor their parent puts in in the holiday season. So you can console yourself by picturing Archie and Lilibet's faces when they unfold a beautifully scripted letter that says, 'I love you because you are brave,' from a homemade Advent calendar, instead of a chocolate.