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 a franchise which was once huge but has now been relegated to…
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…
CIPC #325: Luniz, I got 5 on it
In the nineties, you could make a music video to an international top ten hit with a cheap video camera, some randomly assorted friends, and…
CIPC #324: The Sweeney S1 E4, Queen’s pawn
The Sweeney is an old police drama series from the UK. That’s not so remarkable, especially not for a subject of this blog. But what’s…
CIPC #323: Bewitched S5 E27, Daddy does his thing
Why is it that American television series tend to have billions of episodes? Take an iconic British series, say, Fawlty Towers: two seasons of six…