I have never been the sort of person who can simply enjoy a television series. Indeed, my partner recently informed me that one of the things he most loves about me is my unerring ability to get impossibly involved in the lives of fictional characters – which, now that I’ve typed it out, feels less of a compliment than I first thought.

He’s not wrong, of course: even I will readily admit that I have a tendency to get obsessed with the tiniest minutiae of any series. With House Of The Dragon, it was all of the dragon-sized Easter eggs dotted throughout the series. With Line Of Duty, it was all the fan theories that people kept submitting to Reddit. I honestly sat and ran all of the characters from Netflix’s Wednesday through the Myers-Briggs (MBTI) personality test, too – and let’s not forget the hour-long conversation I spent with a Belfast taxi driver about the upcoming Game Of Thrones finale (he’d been shipping extras to and from from the set in Northern Ireland and he had some uncannily accurate predictions for that last episode).

Psychology of TV: are you obsessed with fan theories and Easter eggs? Here’s what it really says about you