Kids these days may not know it, but almost twenty years ago the fledgling internet was abuzz with a memes, pictures, and quotes from a…
CIPC #476: Danger 5 S1 E1, I danced for Hitler!
Danger 5 is the most surreal television series I’ve spotlighted since Monty Python’s Flying Circus. It is set in a very unserious alternative universe during…
CIPC #473: Maigret S1E1, The patience of Maigret
Simenon is, by an enormous margin, the best-sold Belgian author — and he is very well sold indeed. According to Wikipedia, he has sold between…
CIPC #470: Tatort E281, Stahlwalzer
When I previously wrote about a Tatort episode, I quietly passed over the fact that that was episode one thousand three hundred and two of…
CIPC #468: Coupling S4 E3, Bed time
Coupling is mostly known from quantum theory, where it means that a change in states of one of the coupled systems will instantaneously produce in…
CIPC #467: The adventures of Tintin S2 E6, Tintin in Tibet
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…