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

No matter the season, it's perpetually hunting season for commentary on the Meghan Markle's televisual offering, With Love, Meghan. Reviewers, expert and amateur alike, have seldom found such common ground as when enthusiastically shredding the program's first and second seasons to pieces. The general consensus held that a more egregious regal scandal had hardly ever taken place than the now-infamous snack re-labeling incident.

Currently, like a merry renegade master, she is back once again with a "Festive Special" (also known as a yuletide episode). Yet now, the dynamic has changed. The standard components viewers are accustomed to – meaningless jargon salads, intense hospitality – remain, but within the context of a Christmas special, it all clicks into place. The puzzle has come perfectly; it's a perfect snow storm.

Now, Meghan has become the quirky relative at Christmas celebrations everywhere – providing unasked-for guidance, 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 an interesting figure, but her aura is known and unexpectedly soothing. And she appears content; she's causing the slightest hurt.

She knows her every micro expression, utterance and glance will be picked apart and criticised, but manages to seem unburdened and too blessed to be stressed.

Maybe this is the only time in history where that well-worn saying – "Don't listen, it's pure jealousy" – may well be true. Because, in all honesty, each element in Meghan's Holiday Celebration truly is charming. Yes, it's all painfully excessive, nonsense and flamboyant – but doesn't that represent precisely what the holiday season is about? And the words she speaks might be ridiculous, but the life she leads seems authentically beautifully curated.

Anything she sets her mind to, she accomplishes with panache. Her cooking looks tasty, the festive decoration she crafts is stunning, her gifts are practically too exquisite to unwrap. Nothing is average or aesthetically displeasing – even the way she secures her apron is stylish and elegant. She doesn't throw a meal in the microwave, it "has a moment", and she creases gift paper like an craft master. She also seems to be thoroughly enjoying herself from start to finish. How could any hate-watcher not be won over, overcome by seasonal cheer and left with a intense desire for crafted festive snaps or a vegetable display where broccoli is arranged in the shape of a wreath?

Meghan used to pretend for a living, naturally, but despite that, after the level of scrutiny she has faced ever since she met Prince Harry, the love child of Meryl Streep and Judi Dench would find it hard to appear this authentically. Her decision to modify or even moderate her persona, despite it being so constantly, globally mocked, is oddly heartening. In our volatile world, here is something we can count on: Meghan will stay true to form, come what may. We will consistently know where we are with her.

If you're remaining skeptical of her brand, a thought that will surely come as a comfort: you don't have to. We don't have national service these days, and were it to return, it would be improbable to include watching With Love, Meghan: Holiday Celebration. If, however, you choose to watch and are gripped with jealousy about her picture-perfect Christmas, all is not lost either. Be you a duchess or a data administrator, hardly any child fully understands the time and energy their mum expends in the holiday season. So you can find comfort by imagining the young royals' faces when they unfold a calligraphy note that says, 'I love you because you are brave,' from a handcrafted holiday countdown, in place of a sweet treat.