Yes, it's Brimming with Absurdity, Over-the-Top Hospitality and Psychobabble. However, I Honestly Cherish Meghan's Festive Episode.

No concerned with the time of year, it's always fair game for scrutiny on the Duchess of Sussex's TV show, With Love, Meghan. Commentators, expert and amateur alike, have seldom found such common ground as when eagerly tearing the lifestyle show's earlier episodes to shreds. The common opinion seemed to be a greater royal outrage had seldom occurred than the notorious pretzel-bagging incident.

Currently, as a festive rebel, she has returned with a new offering with a "Holiday Celebration" (or a holiday episode). Yet now, things have shifted. The standard components we've come to expect – vague self-help platitudes, overzealous entertaining – are still present, but set of a holiday show, suddenly it all makes sense. The elements have slid perfectly; it's a ideal seasonal storm.

By this point, Meghan is like the quirky relative at the typical holiday get-together – offering random tips, 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 quite a personality, but her company is customary and oddly reassuring. And she seems happy enough; she's inflicting the slightest hurt.

She is aware her each tiny facial movement, utterance and gaze will be analyzed and scrutinized, but manages to seem carefree and too blessed to be stressed.

Maybe this is the initial instance in history where that clichéd phrase – "Don't listen, it's pure jealousy" – could actually be true. Because, you know what?, everything in Meghan's Holiday Celebration truly is charming. Admittedly, it's all cringily ultra-extra, nonsense and over the top – but is that not 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 sets her mind to, she accomplishes with style. Her culinary efforts looks tasty, the festive decoration she creates is stunning, her gifts are nearly too beautiful to open. Not a single thing is average or aesthetically displeasing – even the way she fastens her apron is stylish and elegant. She doesn't bung a dish in the microwave, it "takes a twirl", and she wraps wrapping paper like an craft master. She also seems to be genuinely relishing herself the entire time. How could any skeptical viewer 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 was once an actress for a living, obviously, but despite that, after the level of examination she has endured from the moment she became involved with Prince Harry, a theoretical combination of acting royalty would find it hard to appear this naturally. Her decision to alter or even moderate her persona, regardless of it being so relentlessly, internationally ridiculed, is oddly heartening. In our uncertain world, here is one thing we can depend on: Meghan will remain herself, come what may. We will always know where we are with her.

If you're still not buying her brand, a thought that will surely come as a reassurance: you are not obligated to. We don't have national service anymore, and should it be reinstated, it would be unlikely to include watching With Love, Meghan: Holiday Celebration. If, however, you willingly check it out and are consumed by jealousy about her idyllic Christmas, there is hope either. If you are a duchess or a data administrator, hardly any child fully understands the effort and hard work their mum expends in December. So you can find comfort by envisioning her children's faces when they unfold a calligraphy note that says, 'I love you because you are brave,' from a handcrafted holiday countdown, rather than a chocolate.