Admittedly, it's Brimming with Gibberish, Extreme Hosting and Psychobabble. However, I Honestly Love Meghan's Festive Episode.

No matter the time of year, it's constantly fair game for criticism 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 earlier episodes to shreds. The common opinion held that a more egregious regal scandal had never been witnessed than the notorious snack re-labeling incident.

Currently, like a merry renegade master, she has returned with a new offering with a "Festive Special" (or a yuletide episode). However on this occasion, things have shifted. The usual elements audiences anticipate – meaningless jargon salads, extreme hosting – remain, but framed of a holiday show, suddenly it all makes sense. The pieces have fallen into place; it's a flawless festive blizzard.

Now, Meghan is like the eccentric aunt at the typical holiday get-together – providing unasked-for guidance, and delivering the occasional strange exclamation. ("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 unexpectedly soothing. And she seems content; she's not doing any harm.

She understands her all subtle gestures, word and look will be picked apart and scrutinized, but nonetheless looks carefree and serenely untroubled.

It could be this is the only time in history where that clichéd phrase – "Don't listen, it's pure jealousy" – might be true. Because, you know what?, everything in Meghan's Holiday Celebration is charming. Granted, it's all cringily ultra-extra, nonsense and over the top – but isn't that exactly what Yuletide is for? And the words she speaks might be absurd, but the example she sets genuinely looks shop-bought.

Whatever she attempts, she accomplishes with style. Her cooking looks tasty, the holiday arrangement she creates is gorgeous, her gifts are practically too exquisite to open. Not a single thing is ordinary or ugly – even the way she fastens her apron is creative and fashionable. She doesn't toss a dish in the oven, it "has a moment", and she folds wrapping paper like an craft master. She also seems to be genuinely relishing herself from start to finish. How could any cynical observer not be won over, overcome by seasonal cheer and left with a powerful yearning for handmade crackers or a vegetable display where greens is arranged in the shape of a wreath?

Meghan used to pretend for a living, naturally, but nonetheless, after the degree of attention she has endured ever since she became involved with Prince Harry, the love child of Meryl Streep and Judi Dench would find it hard to appear this authentically. Her unwillingness to change or even soften her shtick, even though it being so persistently, widely parodied, is weirdly comforting. In our uncertain world, here is one thing we can rely on: Meghan will stay true to form, come what may. We will always know where we are with her.

If you're remaining skeptical of what she's selling, a point that will surely come as a relief: you don't have to. There isn't the draft in this country, and were it to return, it would be unlikely to include viewing With Love, Meghan: Holiday Celebration. If, however, you decide to tune in and are overcome with envy about her idyllic Christmas, there is hope either. Whether you're a royal or a everyday person, few children fully understands the effort and hard work their mother does in the holiday season. So you can console yourself by envisioning Archie and Lilibet's faces when they open a calligraphy note that says, 'I love you because you are brave,' from a homemade Advent calendar, rather than a chocolate.