"It is good," he says absentmindedly of House, which, for the uninitiated (well, it is on Five), usually involves the doc having to solve a baffling medical condition. "Each week he comes in and goes: 'It's A. No, it's B!
No, it's A with B! No it's..
. D! It is D.
.. But it looks like A.
It's AD...
and there's a Z thing in there. No it isn't, it's A. No, he's dead.
He was gonna die anyway.' I couldn't quite work out how it works. But you're still taken in by it.
And you still wanna watch it.