Indeed, it's Packed with Nonsense, Over-the-Top Hospitality and Self-Help Jargon. Yet I Truly Adore Meghan's Christmas Special.

No matter the season, it's always open season for scrutiny on the Duchess of Sussex's Netflix series, With Love, Meghan. Critics, from seasoned journalists to online pundits, have rarely been so united as when enthusiastically shredding the program's initial installments apart. The common opinion seemed to be a more egregious regal scandal had seldom occurred than the now-infamous pretzel-bagging incident.

Currently, as a festive rebel, she makes a comeback with a new offering with a "Festive Special" (or a Christmas special). Yet now, the dynamic has changed. The usual elements audiences anticipate – vague self-help platitudes, overzealous entertaining – are still present, but within the context of a yuletide episode, the purpose becomes clear. The elements have slid together; it's a perfect snow storm.

At this stage, Meghan resembles the quirky relative at Christmas celebrations everywhere – dispensing random tips, 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 unexpectedly soothing. And she looks content; she's not doing any harm.

She knows her all subtle gestures, word and gaze will be analyzed and criticised, but nonetheless looks carefree and too blessed to be stressed.

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, let's face it, everything in Meghan's Holiday Celebration honestly feels charming. Admittedly, it's all cringily ultra-extra, silliness and over the top – but is that not just what Christmas is all about? And the words she speaks might be laughable, but the example she sets genuinely looks shop-bought.

Whatever she turns her beautifully manicured, diamond-adorned hand to, she accomplishes with style. Her cooking looks scrumptious, the holiday arrangement she creates is gorgeous, her presents are nearly too beautiful to tear into. Not a single thing is average or aesthetically displeasing – even the way she fastens her kitchen garment is creative and fashionable. She doesn't throw a meal in the oven, it "takes a twirl", and she creases gift paper like an paper-folding expert. She also seems to be genuinely relishing herself from start to finish. How could any cynical observer not be charmed, bursting 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 was once an actress for a living, of course, but even so, after the degree of scrutiny she has endured from the moment she became involved with Prince Harry, a theoretical combination of Meryl Streep and Judi Dench would find it hard to appear this genuinely. Her unwillingness to change or even soften her shtick, regardless of it being so persistently, widely parodied, is strangely reassuring. In our uncertain world, here is something we can count on: Meghan will remain herself, no matter what. We will consistently know our position with her.

If you're still not buying what she's selling, a thought that will certainly come as a reassurance: you don't have to. There isn't mandatory conscription anymore, and if there were, it would be unlikely to include streaming With Love, Meghan: Holiday Celebration. If, however, you willingly check it out and are overcome with jealousy about her idyllic Christmas, there is hope either. Whether you're a duchess or a data administrator, few children completely grasps the time and energy their parent puts in in December. So you can find comfort by envisioning the young royals' faces when they reveal a handwritten message that says, 'I love you because you are brave,' from a homemade Advent calendar, in place of a sweet treat.