...but only really because it doesn't ruin the Daleks or rip off a classic episode.
Okay, disagree

I thought it worked because it put the Doctor in an environment that he wasn't used to: domesticity. I don't think it's meant to be more ambitious than that, just a quirky episode and nothing more. In a show with endless alien invasions and threats to key points in history, I can appreciate the little backtrack here.
Here's the thing: last week, we watched the Doctor get bored out of his mind waiting for Vincent to paint the church. "Is this how the rest of you experience time ...
in order?" That was hilarious ... and insightful. While I don't mind this week's episode quite as much as Bones, ever since I first heard about it, I'd been hoping for a character study of the Doctor as a man forced to slow down and live life for a week ... as a man. Cooking, eating, cleaning, doing the laundry, being largely inept at it all, completely out of his element -- still clearly a genius from another planet -- but one that needs help with the details when he's not got the TARDIS to run off to.
Remember in "Amy's Choice" when he sits on the bench between what's-his-name and the very pregnant Amy? How just the description of how they lived bored Eleven to tears? This episode should have forced that upon him. Pizza, telly, and booze? Bring it on! Let me see the Doctor go five minutes without disassembling the remote and putting it back together better than it was before with lots of fun and dangerous new features!
When he took over Craig's job, he should have left it in a shambles. When he took up socc-- excuse me,
football -- he should have been proficient with the ball (as a nod to Matt's background), but a bit confused about how to play, bringing in rules from the Greeks, Romans, and even from the future. His playing style should have been a bit like his attire: a bit anachronistic no matter when he is.
I'm a bit let down because "The Lodger" had potential to be an amazing study of the Doctor's psyche, but instead they just made a lazy stab at comedy.