Yes, it's Packed with Gibberish, Extreme Hosting and Psychobabble. Yet I Truly Adore Meghan's Holiday Special.

No considering the season, it's always fair game for commentary on the Duchess of Sussex's Netflix series, With Love, Meghan. Commentators, expert and amateur alike, have rarely been so united as when eagerly tearing the lifestyle show's initial installments to pieces. The prevailing view seemed to be a greater royal outrage had hardly ever taken place than the now-infamous pretzel re-packaging incident.

Currently, like a merry renegade master, she is back for another round with a "Holiday Celebration" (aka a holiday episode). Yet now, it's different. The usual elements audiences anticipate – psychobabble word salads, extreme hosting – persist, but set of a Christmas special, the purpose becomes clear. The puzzle has come perfectly; it's a flawless festive blizzard.

Now, Meghan has become the eccentric aunt at the typical holiday get-together – providing 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 quite a personality, but her aura is known and oddly reassuring. And she looks happy enough; she's causing the slightest hurt.

She understands her each tiny facial movement, word and look will be picked apart and judged, but nonetheless looks carefree and too blessed to be stressed.

Perhaps this is the only time in history where that well-worn saying – "Ignore them, they're just jealous" – might be true. Because, let's face it, each element in Meghan's Holiday Celebration is charming. Yes, it's all awkwardly over-the-top, silliness and over the top – but isn't that just what Yuletide is about? And the talk she's talking might be ridiculous, but the life she leads genuinely looks shop-bought.

Whatever she attempts, she pulls off with style. Her culinary efforts looks tasty, the holiday arrangement she creates is breathtaking, her gifts are practically too exquisite to unwrap. Not a single thing is ordinary or visually unappealing – including the way she ties her kitchen garment is artful and chic. She doesn't throw a meal in the oven, it "takes a twirl", and she creases gift paper like an craft master. She also seems to be completely savoring herself the entire time. How could any skeptical viewer not be convinced, overcome by seasonal cheer and left with a deep longing for handmade crackers or a crudites platter where greens is arranged in the shape of a Christmas ring?

Meghan had a career in acting for a living, obviously, but despite that, after the level of examination she has faced from the moment she met Prince Harry, the love child of acting royalty would struggle to act this genuinely. Her refusal to alter or even moderate her shtick, even though it being so constantly, internationally ridiculed, is strangely reassuring. In our uncertain world, here is something we can depend on: Meghan will stay true to form, no matter what. We will forever know our position with her.

If you're still not buying her brand, a reminder that will undoubtedly come as a comfort: you don't have to. There isn't mandatory conscription anymore, and if there were, it would be doubtful to include viewing With Love, Meghan: Holiday Celebration. If, however, you willingly check it out and are consumed by jealousy about her idyllic Christmas, all is not lost either. Be you a royal or a everyday person, hardly any child completely grasps the dedication and labor their mum does in December. So you can take heart by envisioning Archie and Lilibet's faces when they open a beautifully scripted letter that says, 'I love you because you are brave,' from a handcrafted holiday countdown, in place of a chocolate.

Cathy Rodriguez
Cathy Rodriguez

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