Indeed, it's Full of Nonsense, Over-the-Top Hospitality and Self-Help Jargon. However, I Honestly Love Meghan's Holiday Special.

No matter the season, it's perpetually fair game for criticism on the Duchess of Sussex's televisual offering, With Love, Meghan. Reviewers, from seasoned journalists to online pundits, have seldom found such common ground as when gleefully ripping the series' first and second seasons apart. The general consensus seemed to be a more egregious regal scandal had seldom occurred than the now-infamous pretzel re-packaging incident.

Now, in the spirit of a holiday maverick, she has returned once again with a "Festive Special" (aka a Christmas special). But this time, it's different. The usual elements viewers are accustomed to – vague self-help platitudes, overzealous entertaining – remain, but set of a holiday show, it all clicks into place. The elements have slid perfectly; it's a flawless festive blizzard.

At this stage, Meghan has become the eccentric aunt at the typical holiday get-together – providing unsolicited, unnecessary advice, 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 an interesting figure, but her company is customary and oddly reassuring. And she appears pleased; she's causing a bit of damage.

She is aware her every micro expression, word and glance will be picked apart and scrutinized, but manages to seem relaxed and serenely untroubled.

Perhaps this is the only time in history where that old chestnut – "Don't listen, it's pure jealousy" – might be true. The reason is, let's face it, everything in Meghan's Holiday Celebration is lovely. Yes, it's all awkwardly over-the-top, foolishness and extravagant – but isn't that precisely what the holiday season is about? And the advice she gives might be absurd, but the walk she's walking genuinely looks shop-bought.

Whatever she attempts, she pulls off with panache. Her cooking looks scrumptious, the wreath she crafts is stunning, her gifts are nearly too beautiful to tear into. Not a single thing is average or ugly – even the way she secures her apron is creative and fashionable. She doesn't throw a meal in the oven, it "goes for a spin", and she folds wrapping paper like an craft master. She also seems to be genuinely relishing herself throughout. How could any cynical observer not be convinced, bursting with seasonal cheer and left with a intense desire for personalized Christmas crackers or a vegetable display where broccoli is positioned in the shape of a festive circle?

Meghan had a career in acting for a living, naturally, but even so, after the intensity of examination she has endured ever since she met Prince Harry, even a hypothetical offspring of Meryl Streep and Judi Dench would struggle to act this naturally. Her decision to change or even tone down her persona, even though it being so relentlessly, internationally ridiculed, is oddly heartening. In our unpredictable world, here is one thing we can depend on: Meghan will be like this, whatever happens. We will always know our position with her.

If you're remaining skeptical of what she's selling, a reminder that will surely come as a reassurance: you don't have to. There isn't the draft in this country, and were it to return, it would be doubtful to include viewing With Love, Meghan: Holiday Celebration. If, conversely, you willingly check it out and are gripped with jealousy about her picture-perfect Christmas, there is hope either. If you are a duchess or a data administrator, few children truly appreciates the time and energy their mother puts in in the holiday season. So you can take heart by picturing Archie and Lilibet's faces when they open a calligraphy note that says, 'I love you because you are brave,' from a DIY festive calendar, rather than a chocolate.