Yes, it's Full of Absurdity, Extreme Hosting and Self-Help Jargon. Yet I Truly Adore Meghan's Christmas Special.

No matter the time of year, it's always fair game for criticism on the Meghan Markle's televisual offering, With Love, Meghan. Critics, both professional and armchair, have rarely been so united as when enthusiastically shredding the program's earlier episodes to shreds. The prevailing view was that a bigger monarchy-related faux pas had hardly ever taken place than the notorious snack re-labeling incident.

Currently, like a merry renegade master, she is back once again with a "Holiday Celebration" (or a yuletide episode). But this time, the dynamic has changed. The standard components we've come to expect – vague self-help platitudes, extreme hosting – persist, but within the context of a yuletide episode, the purpose becomes clear. The puzzle has come into place; it's a perfect snow storm.

By this point, Meghan has become the quirky relative at the typical holiday get-together – offering unsolicited, unnecessary advice, and delivering 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 presence is familiar and unexpectedly soothing. And she appears happy enough; she's causing the slightest hurt.

She knows her all subtle gestures, word and glance will be analyzed and criticised, but nonetheless looks relaxed and remarkably at ease.

Perhaps this is the first occasion in history where that well-worn saying – "Ignore them, they're just jealous" – might be true. The reason is, you know what?, all aspects in Meghan's Holiday Celebration truly is delightful. Yes, it's all painfully excessive, nonsense and over the top – but isn't that precisely what Christmas is for? And the words she speaks might be absurd, but the walk she's walking genuinely looks beautifully curated.

Anything she attempts, she accomplishes with style. Her culinary efforts looks delicious, the festive decoration she crafts is stunning, her gifts are practically too exquisite to open. Not a single thing is mediocre or aesthetically displeasing – including the way she fastens her kitchen garment is artful and chic. She doesn't toss a dish in the oven, it "goes for a spin", and she wraps gift paper like an craft master. She also seems to be completely savoring herself from start to finish. How could any hate-watcher not be convinced, filled with festive joy and left with a intense desire for crafted festive snaps or a crudites platter where greens is organized in the shape of a wreath?

Meghan had a career in acting for a living, of course, but even so, after the degree of examination she has faced from the moment she met Prince Harry, a theoretical combination of two legendary actresses would struggle to act this authentically. Her decision to change or even tone down her persona, despite it being so relentlessly, widely parodied, is oddly heartening. In our unpredictable world, here is one thing we can depend on: Meghan will stay true to form, no matter what. We will consistently know where we are with her.

If you're not yet convinced by what she's selling, a thought that will surely come as a comfort: you aren't required to. We don't have national service anymore, and if there were, it would be doubtful to include streaming With Love, Meghan: Holiday Celebration. If, conversely, you decide to tune in and are consumed by envy about her idyllic Christmas, you can take solace either. If you are a duchess or a office worker, no kid fully understands the effort and hard work their mum expends in the holiday season. So you can find comfort by picturing her children's faces when they reveal a beautifully scripted letter that says, 'I love you because you are brave,' from a handcrafted holiday countdown, instead of a candy.