Have you ever heard of the Crime doctor franchise? It is about doctor Ordway, a criminal psychologist who helps the police solve cases. Nowadays, it…
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 #223: Taylor, Women playing chess
It is time to parade some high culture in front of your eyes again while I talk condescendingly about paintings like I can tell undoubted…
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 #220: Cyma ad
Ex oriente lux. Also, really weird pop music. In Europe, one mainly hears about k-pop, the Korean pop music which has been taking the world…
CIPC #219: The Da Vinci code
Here’s an interesting observation about pop culture in 2021: there hasn’t been a book craze in quite a while. Some twenty years ago, there was…
CIPC #218: Frauenarzt Dr. Prätorius
Sad news for the lovers of early music: we’re not talking about the iconic German music theorist and composer from around 1700. Instead, we are…
CIPC #217: Agatha Christie’s Poirot S9 E2, Sad cypress
Long, long time ago, when this blog was still in its infancy, Agatha Christie’s Poirot was a recurring guest. It’s been more than two years…
CIPC #216: Suske en Wiske – korte verhalen – schaken
Everybody in Flanders know Suske en Wiske. There are well over three hundred issues in the comic book series, there have been a couple of…