After well over four years of weekly blog posts, it’s becoming harder and harder to come with real novelties. But today, I have found it.…
CIPC #233: Lewis S2 E3, Life born of fire
The last time we met Lewis, he was assisting inspector Morse in his final days. It turns out that he afterwards became an inspector himself…
CIPC #224: The adventures of Sherlock Holmes S1 E6, The speckled band
If ever some dimwit decides to feed my blog posts into a machine learning engine and make it produce one of its own, it will…
CIPC #222: Inspector Morse S8 E8, The remorseful day
In the ranks of British tv detectives, inspector Morse occupies a prominent but slightly strange position. He is not a brilliant eccentric like Poirot or…
CIPC #221: The office, S5 E26
There are certain things the internet loves far more than it should. Not that they’re bad per se, but the internet just obsesses over them.…
CIPC #210: Futurama S3 E14, Time keeps on slippin’
A couple of years ago, I wrote a blog post about The Simpsons. It still remains, and will probably remain forever, one of the most…
CIPC #209: Monsters S2 E2, Portrait of the Artist
If I had been a little smarter, I would have done this episode in the Halloween season, but I’m not so I haven’t. So yeah,…
CIPC #208: The tonight show 26-09-2019, Grape chess
I am not familiar with American talk shows, but one of the trappings of the genre seems to be painfully unfunny sketches. Today, we will…
CIPC #205: Father Brown S2 E1, The ghost in the machine
I have sung the praises of Chesterton’s Father Brown stories before, so I will now just suffice by saying that I still stand by those…
CIPC #198: De regels van Floor S3 E16, Fanatiek
De regels van Floor is a still-running Dutch television series. The title means ‘Floor’s rules’ and the concept is that, every episode, Floor comes up…