How I Met Your Mother

Ted is staying put for Christmas this year with his "other family", and Lily has turned the flat into a winter wonderland as a surprise for Marshall. Then she plays an old answering machine message in which Ted called her a very bad word, back when she and Marshall had split up, and the festive cheer curdles fast. Cue an apology that is not quite an apology, a lot of sniping in a very small flat and a winter wonderland in real danger. It is cosy, prickly and very sweet, the perfect comfort watch for when your own family are getting on your nerves.