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…
CIPC #196: Defenders of the Earth E5, Bits ‘n’ chips
Defenders of the Earth is an animated television series, starring three superheroes from American comics: Flash Gordon, The Phantom, and Mandrake the magician. Together, the…