CIPC #22: Mozart in the jungle S1 E2 Fifth chair
Mozart in the jungle is an Amazon original series based on a book of the same name. It focuses on an New York-based up-and-coming oboist’s struggle to make it in...
CIPC #21: Midsomer Murders S15 E5 The Sicilian defence
It doesn’t happen very often that a long-running television show dedicates an entire episode to chess, but when it happens – oh boy! Episode 5 of season 15 of British...
CIPC #7: Numb3rs, S1 E9: Sniper zero
Previously, I called The mentalist a mediocre mystery fiction show. By these standards, Numb3rs is dreadful. First of all, the show has given in to 1337 speak. This is bad....
CIPC #4: Agatha Christie’s Poirot S5 E6: The chocolate box
Belgium is a strange, strange country. I don’t mean the bizarre borders1 , the incredibly complicated politics2 , or the fact that there’s a Belgian chess history site. No, I...
CIPC #2: The mentalist, S1 E3: Red tide
I have quite a high tolerance for mediocre mystery fiction – and “mediocre mystery fiction” happens to be a perfect description of the American television series The Mentalist. It’s about...
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