Yes, it's Brimming with Nonsense, Over-the-Top Hospitality and Self-Help Jargon. Yet I Truly Cherish Meghan's Holiday Special.

No matter the time of year, it's always fair game for commentary on the Duchess of Sussex's Netflix series, With Love, Meghan. Reviewers, both professional and armchair, have seldom found such common ground as when gleefully ripping the lifestyle show's earlier episodes to pieces. The prevailing view held that a bigger monarchy-related faux pas had hardly ever taken place than the much-discussed pretzel-bagging incident.

Now, like a merry renegade master, she has returned once again with a "Holiday Celebration" (aka a yuletide episode). Yet now, things have shifted. The standard components we've come to expect – vague self-help platitudes, overzealous entertaining – persist, but within the context of a holiday show, the purpose becomes clear. The puzzle has come together; it's a flawless festive blizzard.

By this point, Meghan has become the eccentric aunt at the typical holiday get-together – offering 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 presence is familiar and strangely comforting. And she looks happy enough; she's not doing a bit of damage.

She knows her all subtle gestures, utterance and gaze will be analyzed and scrutinized, but manages to seem carefree and serenely untroubled.

It could be this is the first occasion in history where that clichéd phrase – "Pay no mind, it's only envy" – could actually be true. Since, let's face it, each element in Meghan's Holiday Celebration truly is lovely. Yes, it's all cringily ultra-extra, nonsense and extravagant – but is that not exactly what the holiday season is for? And the words she speaks might be absurd, but the walk she's walking seems authentically beautifully curated.

Whatever she sets her mind to, she pulls off with style. Her culinary efforts looks scrumptious, the holiday arrangement she creates is gorgeous, her gifts are nearly too beautiful to open. Not a single thing is mediocre or ugly – including the way she secures her kitchen garment is creative and fashionable. She doesn't throw a dish in the oven, it "has a moment", and she folds gift paper like an craft master. She also seems to be thoroughly enjoying herself throughout. How could any hate-watcher not be charmed, filled with holiday spirit and left with a powerful yearning for personalized Christmas crackers or a vegetable display where broccoli is arranged in the form of a Christmas ring?

Meghan had a career in acting for a living, obviously, but nonetheless, after the intensity of examination she has endured since she started dating Prince Harry, the love child of two legendary actresses would struggle to act this authentically. Her refusal to change or even tone down her routine, even though it being so persistently, widely parodied, is weirdly comforting. In our volatile world, here is one thing we can count on: Meghan will stay true to form, whatever happens. We will consistently know our position with her.

If you're remaining skeptical of her brand, a thought that will undoubtedly come as a comfort: you aren't required to. The UK has abolished national service anymore, and should it be reinstated, it would be improbable to include watching With Love, Meghan: Holiday Celebration. If, on the other hand, you choose to watch and are consumed by envy about her picture-perfect Christmas, there is hope either. Be you a duchess or a office worker, few children fully understands the time and energy their mother expends in the holiday season. So you can find comfort by imagining her children's faces when they open a calligraphy note that says, 'I love you because you are brave,' from a handcrafted holiday countdown, in place of a candy.