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…
CIPC #138: Blackadder II E4, Money
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…
CIPC #136: Gode Geass S1 E1, The day a new demon was born
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…
CIPC #132: The prisoner, Checkmate
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.…
CIPC #130: Breaking bad S3 E6, Sunset
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…
CIPC #126: The prisoner, Arrival
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…
CIPC #122: meetup.com commercial
Apparently, there are people out there. As if that thought wasn’t scary enough, those people sometimes want to meet each other. This is precisely what…
CIPC #121: Zorro S1 E1, Welcome to Monterey
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…
CIPC #117: House S3 E23, The Jerk
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…
CIPC #107: The big bang theory, S5 E18: The werewolf transformation
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…