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CIPC #209: Monsters S2 E2, Portrait of the Artist

Posted on February 16, 2021

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,…

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CIPC #205: Father Brown S2 E1, The ghost in the machine

Posted on January 19, 2021

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…

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CIPC #198: De regels van Floor S3 E16, Fanatiek

Posted on November 24, 2020

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…

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CIPC #191: The odd couple S2 E9, Chess nuts

Posted on October 6, 2020October 6, 2020

When I first watched Fawlty Towers I wasn’t precisely blown away, but the more sitcoms I watch the more I appreciate it. Take for example…

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CIPC #188: The rifleman S4 E7, The knight errant

Posted on September 16, 2020

Television may be a relatively recent phenomenon, but the ‘relatively’ in that sentence is becoming more pertinent with every passing year. Already, there are more…

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CIPC #186: Abenteuer 1900 – Leben im Gutshaus E12, Warten auf Nachwuchs

Posted on September 1, 2020

Today, we feature our first German television series. Abenteuer 1900 – Leben im Gutshaus, German for “adventure 1900 – live on a manor”, was shown…

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CIPC #169: The wire S1 E3, The buys

Posted on May 5, 2020

The wire is one of the most critically acclaimed television series in history, charting at number six in IMDB’s top list at the time of…

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CIPC #160: Jonny Quest E.19, Attack of the tree people

Posted on March 3, 2020

By a bit of an accident, I recently stumbled upon the existence of a franchise with three different TV-series, two made-for-TV movies, a series of…

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CIPC #157: Tales of tomorrow S1 E2, Blunder

Posted on February 11, 2020

Tales of tomorrow is a sci-fi anthology show that aired in the beginning of the fifties in the USA. It doesn’t seem to be very…

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CIPC #149: Gravity Falls, S1 E11: Little Dipper

Posted on December 10, 2019August 2, 2020

Gravity Falls is a critically acclaimed cartoon show produced by Disney about twelve-year-old twins Mabel and Dipper, who spend the summer holidays with their great-uncle…

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With this blog, I will critique chess as it appears in all sorts of popular media. I will honour the good and, probably much more frequently, castigate the bad.

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