Tintin is perhaps Belgium’s most successful export product,1 so it’s not surprising that I feature him on my blog when he plays chess. And yet,…
CIPC #464: Wolf Hall S1 E3, Anna Regina
Wolf Hall is a romanticised biography of Thomas Cromwell. As such, it is necessarily set at the English court in renaissance times. And that, in…
CIPC #462: Nero Wolfe E9, Sfida al cioccolato
Sometimes it feels like, every other week, I spotlight a gloriously famous detective I hadn’t heard of before this blog. The newest addition to the…
CIPC #460: Star Trek: Strange new worlds S2 E3, Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow
Can you believe that I’ve been running this blog for so many years without ever covering Star Trek? I should bloody well hope so, because…
CIPC #453: Sam S2 E7, Credit
On hearing there was a British television series called Sam, I got my hopes up that perhaps it would be about Samwise Gamgee, greatest person…
CIPC #450: Columbo S3 E6, Mind over mayhem
While we’re on the subject of good American detective series, it is maybe a good time to revisit our old friend Columbo. Last time we…
CIPC #449: Dark Winds S1 E6, Ye’iitsoh
Generally, American police series have a monstrous amount of episodes, each more frantic and less believable than the next.1 Not so with Dark Winds. The…
CIPC #446: Ghosts S1 E2, Gorilla war
You know what? I like this show.1 It’s a pleasant, light-hearted British sitcom which has the considerable benefit over most sitcoms that it is actually…
CIPC #445: Kid-E-Cats S1 E43, Chess mates
Sometimes I wonder whether I’ve not been doing this for too long now. It’s gotten to the point where I write about an obscure Russian…
CIPC #442: Leave it to Beaver S6 E8, Bachelor at large
Leave it to Beaver is perhaps the stereotypical sixties sitcom. The main characters form a typical middle-class family with two kids, mom as a housewife,…