Indeed, it's Brimming with Absurdity, Over-the-Top Hospitality and Self-Help Jargon. However, I Honestly Love Meghan's Holiday Special.

No matter the season, it's always open season for commentary on the Meghan Markle's TV show, With Love, Meghan. Critics, both professional and armchair, have rarely been so united as when enthusiastically shredding the series' first and second seasons apart. The general consensus seemed to be a more egregious regal scandal had never been witnessed than the notorious pretzel-bagging incident.

Now, in the spirit of a holiday maverick, she is back once again with a "Christmas Special" (aka a holiday episode). However on this occasion, it's different. The standard components we've come to expect – vague self-help platitudes, intense hospitality – are still present, but framed of a holiday show, the purpose becomes clear. The puzzle has come into place; it's a flawless festive blizzard.

Now, Meghan resembles the eccentric aunt at Christmas celebrations everywhere – offering random tips, and supplying 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 a bit of a character, but her company is customary and unexpectedly soothing. And she looks happy enough; she's causing a bit of damage.

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

Maybe this is the initial instance in history where that old chestnut – "Ignore them, they're just jealous" – may well be true. The reason is, you know what?, all aspects in Meghan's Holiday Celebration is delightful. Admittedly, it's all cringily ultra-extra, nonsense and over the top – but is that not just what the holiday season is all about? And the advice she gives might be absurd, but the walk she's walking genuinely looks impeccably styled.

Anything she sets her mind to, she accomplishes with style. Her cooking looks tasty, the festive decoration she creates is gorgeous, her gifts are almost too pretty to unwrap. Not a single thing is ordinary or ugly – including the way she fastens her apron is creative and fashionable. She doesn't toss a dish in the microwave, it "has a moment", and she folds wrapping paper like an origami guru. She also seems to be genuinely relishing herself from start to finish. How could any cynical observer not be won over, filled with festive joy and left with a intense desire for crafted festive snaps or a crudites platter where greens is positioned in the form of a festive circle?

Meghan used to pretend for a living, of course, but even so, after the intensity of attention she has endured from the moment she met Prince Harry, a theoretical combination of Meryl Streep and Judi Dench would struggle to act this naturally. Her decision to change or even moderate her shtick, despite it being so relentlessly, widely parodied, is strangely reassuring. In our volatile world, here is something we can count on: Meghan will be like this, no matter what. We will always know our position with her.

If you're remaining skeptical of her brand, a reminder that will undoubtedly come as a comfort: you don't have to. The UK has abolished mandatory conscription in this country, and if there were, it would be unlikely to include watching With Love, Meghan: Holiday Celebration. If, however, you willingly check it out and are overcome with jealousy about her flawless Christmas, all is not lost either. If you are a duchess or a everyday person, hardly any child completely grasps the effort and hard work their parent does in the holiday season. So you can find comfort by picturing the young royals' faces when they unfold a beautifully scripted letter that says, 'I love you because you are brave,' from a DIY festive calendar, in place of a candy.