'' THE RESIDENCE '' TAP : NETFLIX'S SHOW HONOURS

A murder, a dinner, a detective. Netflix show '' The Residence'' handles the classic whodunit with aplomb.

Magnetic protagonist : Created by Paul William Davies and produced by Shonda Rhimes' Shondaland, those who have admired the show's anthemic knowledge of the White House layout will be intrigued to learn that it was inspired by Kate Andersen Bower's nonfiction book, The Residence : Inside The Private World Of The White House.

The Residence's answer to Sherlock Holmes, Cordelia Cupp has the fashion sense of Indiana Jones, the memory of an elephant [ or a CPU ] and a lot more love for birds and tinned mackerel than she does for her fellow people.

For the sake of a dead man in the White House, however, Cordella is willing to battle her low tolerance for humanity during eight-hour long episodes, wading through the myriad of exhausting stories nearly every suspect brandishes before her.

By eruditely extracting nuggets of truth from the bald-faced lies misformed memories, Cordella ever so satisfyingly unmasks the murderer she has pursued in a long awaited denouement sliding into place amongst television's other great brainiacs - and making our fictional world of whodunits all the better for it.

Stitched together with a water tight script and original jazzy orchestral soundtrack by Mark Mothersbaugh [ whose work you can relish on The Royal Tenenbaums ], here lies a murder mystery that is equivalent of a box of posh chocolates : irresistible and unforgettable.

THE RESIDENCE is that box of chocolates. It exists to be savoured from start to finish - and all over again.

The World Students Society thanks Urooba Rasool, SLOUGH.