Yadda yadda detective yadda yadda Lewis. Look, we don’t have time for this. There’s far too much to talk about here, because one of the…
CIPC #383: The inspector Alleyn mysteries S2E2, Dead water
The inspector Alleyn mysteries ran only very briefly, for a mere nine episodes. Yet it now features for the second time on this blog. After…
CIPC #380: Monty python’s flying circus S1 E5, Man’s crisis of identity in the latter half of the 20th century
I have quite some trepidation as I start writing this post, because I will have to judge the pythons!1 Their flying circus is perhaps the…
CIPC #374: Innocent S1 E1
All you people are such sinners you probably don’t even know what Innocent is1, so here’s the rundown: it’s a quite recent British television show…
CIPC #373: Orange is the new black S2 E7, Comic sans
Some ten years ago, the whole internet — and presumably the remaining shreds of culture outside of it — was agog with talk about Orange…
CIPC #370: Cheers S5 E15, Spellbound [again]
I have taken a page out of the complete idiot’s guide to Hollywood productions: if you have the material for a strong movie that’s going…
CIPC #369: Cheers S5 E15, Spellbound
Yet another sitcom on the blog. I’ll drink to that! Like so many sitcoms, it ran for well over a decade and had about a…
CIPC #367: Scorpion S3 E16, Keep it in check mate
Let me start with a quick warning: this is one of the most irredeemably bullshit things we’re seen yet.1 So, Scorpion. It is a show…
CIPC #366: The inspector Alleyn mysteries S1 E3, The nursing home murder
If you want suspense in your murder mystery, you have essentially two options: either you make the victim widely hated, so that you have many…
CIPC #363: Van der Valk S3 E12, Diane
Time and time again, when I encounter yet another British detective series with a chess scene, I have to write a paragraph expressing my astonishment…