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CIPC #138: Blackadder II E4, Money

Posted on September 24, 2019September 24, 2019

Blackadder is a serious contender for the title of best TV-series in history. The first season was perhaps not great, but from season two to…

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CIPC #136: Gode Geass S1 E1, The day a new demon was born

Posted on September 10, 2019September 11, 2019

Lelouch. Lamperouge. That’s seriously the name of the protagonist in this anime. No, really, you can look it up: he is actually called ‘the fishy…

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CIPC #132: The prisoner, Checkmate

Posted on August 13, 2019

I have written about The prisoner before; if you don’t know what it is, you should probably read the first few sentences of that post.…

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CIPC #130: Breaking bad S3 E6, Sunset

Posted on July 31, 2019

About a decade ago, Breaking bad was the hottest thing on television. It was a television series about a chemistry teacher diagnosed with cancer who…

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CIPC #126: The prisoner, Arrival

Posted on July 2, 2019

The prisoner is a delightful cocktail of sixties futurism and mystery fiction with a liberal dash of the Kafkaesque. It is about a former secret…

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CIPC #121: Zorro S1 E1, Welcome to Monterey

Posted on May 28, 2019

Here we are again. Like a murderer returning to the scene of the crime, I always seem to circle back to Zorro.1 This time, we…

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CIPC #117: House S3 E23, The Jerk

Posted on April 30, 2019May 27, 2019

I have remarked before that, as the number of episodes in a given television series tends to infinity, the probability of chess appearing at least…

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CIPC #107: The big bang theory, S5 E18: The werewolf transformation

Posted on February 19, 2019

If you’ve been living under a rock for half your life, you are probably an invertebrate. Also, you might not know about The big bang…

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CIPC #99: The supersizers eat… the fifties

Posted on December 18, 2018

I have a rare psychological condition were I have an immediate antipathy against almost anything with punctuation in the title.1 Some things – like periods,…

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CIPC #96: Masha and the bear S2 E2, Time to ride my pony

Posted on November 27, 2018

Usually, I am somehow familiar with the things I talk about. Most of the movies I talk about I have seen. Most of the comics…

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