British detective series are the bread and butter of this blog. But every now and then, I want to mix things up by spotlighting an…
CIPC #334: Puerto Rico rum ad
It’s not the first time I’ve dealt with hard liquor on this blog. Far from it. But it’s the first time I’m dealing with such…
CIPC #333: Prime suspect S2 E1, Operation Nadine
Even in the nineties, women and men were still treated very differently. A case in point: when we meet inspector Barnaby from Midsomer Murders or…
CIPC #332: Rupa ad
It’s been a while since we talked about a talk show, but I don’t like doing so, so let’s not. Instead, let’s talk about underwear.…
CIPC #331: Portishead, Sour times
I usually avoid them, but it’s time for a highly personal confession: I am a sucker for clever use of enjambment. So when I heard,…
CIPC #330: Syberia
No, I did not just misspell Siberia. Syberia is the actual name of a point-and-click video game released in 2002. It was written by Belgian…
CIPC #329: Midsomer Murders S20 E2, Death of the small coppers
It’s been entirely too long since we’ve last talked about cold old British crime television. So let’s return to Midsomer Murders. Exactly six years ago,1…
CIPC #328: Das Kriminalmuseum E13, Tödliches Schach
I haven’t kept statistics about this,1 but I suspect that over ninety percent of the things I discuss on this blog have been anglophonic. That’s…
CIPC #327: Fighting mad
In the age-old tradition of Chess in popular culture, we’re going to talk about a franchise which was once huge but has now been relegated…
CIPC #326: SKY ad
SKY is a broadcasting company from New Zealand. They must have been incredibly popular, because in 2009 they decided to scare some away: they published…