Admittedly, it's Packed with Absurdity, Over-the-Top Hospitality and Self-Help Jargon. However, I Honestly Love Meghan's Christmas Special.

No concerned with the season, it's constantly open season for scrutiny on the Duchess of Sussex's Netflix series, With Love, Meghan. Commentators, expert and amateur alike, have rarely been so united as when enthusiastically shredding the series' initial installments apart. The prevailing view seemed to be a greater royal outrage had seldom occurred than the much-discussed snack re-labeling incident.

Presently, like a merry renegade master, she has returned with a new offering with a "Christmas Special" (aka a Christmas special). However on this occasion, the dynamic has changed. The usual elements we've come to expect – vague self-help platitudes, extreme hosting – persist, but within the context of a Christmas special, the purpose becomes clear. The pieces have fallen together; it's a ideal seasonal storm.

By this point, Meghan resembles the quirky relative at Christmas celebrations everywhere – offering unasked-for guidance, and supplying 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 quite a personality, but her company is customary and strangely comforting. And she appears happy enough; she's not doing the slightest hurt.

She understands her every micro expression, word and gaze will be dissected and criticised, but nonetheless looks unburdened and remarkably at ease.

Maybe this is the initial instance in history where that well-worn saying – "Ignore them, they're just jealous" – could actually be true. Since, you know what?, each element in Meghan's Holiday Celebration is charming. Granted, it's all cringily ultra-extra, silliness and flamboyant – but isn't that precisely what Christmas is for? And the talk she's talking might be laughable, but the life she leads seems authentically shop-bought.

Anything she sets her mind to, she pulls off with style. Her cooking looks tasty, the wreath she makes is stunning, her presents are almost too pretty to unwrap. Not a single thing is ordinary or ugly – including the way she ties her apron is stylish and elegant. She doesn't toss a dish in the microwave, it "goes for a spin", and she folds wrapping paper like an paper-folding expert. She also seems to be genuinely relishing herself the entire time. How could any hate-watcher not be won over, bursting with holiday spirit and left with a powerful yearning for crafted festive snaps or a crudites platter where greens is arranged in the shape of a festive circle?

Meghan had a career in acting for a living, naturally, but nonetheless, after the degree of examination she has faced since she became involved with Prince Harry, a theoretical combination of two legendary actresses would find it hard to appear this genuinely. Her unwillingness to modify or even moderate her persona, despite it being so persistently, widely parodied, is weirdly comforting. In our volatile world, here is one thing we can depend on: Meghan will be like this, come what may. We will consistently know our position with her.

If you're not yet convinced by what she's selling, a reminder that will surely come as a comfort: you don't have to. There isn't national service these days, and should it be reinstated, it would be doubtful to include streaming With Love, Meghan: Holiday Celebration. If, conversely, you willingly check it out and are consumed by longing about her idyllic Christmas, there is hope either. If you are a duchess or a everyday person, hardly any child truly appreciates the effort and hard work their mum expends in December. So you can console yourself 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, rather than a sweet treat.