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CIPC #94: Toen was geluk heel gewoon S5 E67, Schaken

Posted on November 13, 2018

Toen was geluk heel gewoon (back then, happiness was normal) was a Dutch sitcom that ran for sixteen seasons between 1994 and 2009. It was…

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CIPC #90: Zorro S2 E8, The flag of truce

Posted on October 16, 2018

What, oh what, did people do before the internet? Or, generally, before the rise of the computer? Hell, before cheap pocket editions of all the…

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CIPC #86: Kunt U mij de weg naar Hamelen vertellen, mijnheer? E40, De zoon van Zwankezwaan

Posted on September 18, 2018September 18, 2018

Whoever heard of a fantasy television series conceived as a sequel to a Grimm fairytale with a nine word title and 45 minutes episodes which…

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CIPC #85: Professor T. S2 E10, Het DNA van een moordenaar

Posted on September 11, 2018September 7, 2018

Here we go again. How many times have I spotlighted television series about detective?! The Mentalist, Midsomer Murders, Columbo – I have the impression that…

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CIPC #81: Zorro S1 E36, The sergeant regrets

Posted on August 14, 2018

I hope you guys have been dutifully spreading the word about the Zorro-opening, because, today, Zorro rides again! Yes! We’re now a bit further in…

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CIPC #78: Zorro S1 E11, Double trouble for Zorro

Posted on July 24, 2018

Long, long before Batman there was already a wealthy man living a double life as a masked and caped vigilante, a superman in everything but…

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CIPC #72: Maigret S35, Mon ami Maigret

Posted on June 12, 2018June 14, 2018

I have a conjecture: every sufficiently well-known fictional detective will sooner or later be confronted with chess. A slightly – but only very slightly –…

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CIPC #63: The X-files S5 E20, The end

Posted on April 10, 2018April 22, 2018

As far as I can ascertain, the X-files is more or less an adaptation of the Fortean times in which every uncanny or weirdly creepy…

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CIPC #55: Gargoyles S2 E9 City of stone

Posted on February 13, 2018

Gargoyles is an animated tv series from the nineties and I have a serious problem with it. The writing is quite interesting. It blends Shakespearean…

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CIPC #41: House of Cards, S1 E10

Posted on October 31, 2017November 13, 2017

Netflix original is one of those phrases which a mere twenty years ago would have been nonsensical, but which is now as common as the…

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Chess in popular culture

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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