Throughout the first through fourth seasons in most of the episodes Foyle dominates almost every scene, he seems to make things happen, knit them together. We learn about their “private” lives too. Again and again Foyle, together with Sam and Paul as his two team-members, resist the amoral and the immoral – it is, though, he alone who articulates the actuating ideas behind the decisions and actions we see the three make. The question is repeatedly asked: what are we fighting this war for if we consent to behave as badly as our fascist hate-filled or ruthless enemies are doing.
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Better just to watch the TV episodes? Well, there are some ideas or patterns that one might miss, strikingly repeated stances that hold the hours together as we watch the behavior of our three protagonists interact against ever-worsening counter war techniques and protect or aid the human behavior that makes life worth living. It can be fun to be reminded of what we so enjoyed, to, as it were, relive what’s in our memories, but in the case of complicated mystery stories, with never an empty moment, it would be easy to fall into too much of a good thing. I’ve been wondering to myself what I can add to all that has already been said without going on too long - for what I am best at is explanatory details with moralizing inferences as framework. With each of them, less is more as a style of acting. A bit further down, Anthony Howell as Paul Milner, Foyle’s Deputy Sergeant, this photo giving us a glimpse below the usually guarded stern face to see a kindly wholesome sensitive man who cannot fathom himself killing anyone. Her heart shows her the morally right thing to do and to feel. There are often four stories or threads in an episode, not counting the development of the personalities and conveying of the history of our three very sympathetic protagonists: you see Michael Kitchen as Detective Chief Inspector Foyle above in an unusually softly smiling moment: I just love the way he swings his body and his head and then asks, “Why is that?” Just below is Honeysuckle Weeks, Foyle’s improbable driver, as she appears appealingly as a young women (not much older than 20 to start with, if that old) in the earliest seasons - why Foyle never learned to drive we are not told: More than reading and watching, to try to grasp each episode I needed to write notes on them one at a time to appreciate all that was interwoven in. What this box is is a vast film-novel of moral stories conveying the extraordinary true history of World War Two as it was experienced in Britain. When the tall box came, and I re-began, I also began to see that I needed these features and more to understand what I was seeing: the pamphlet that came with the 8 sets (=seasons) was a help, all the various wikipedia articles I could click on, and Rod Green’s The Real History Behind Foyle’s War. So I had to have the whole series, be able to watch more than one episode at a time, be able to see features about how it was made, and bought the 8 season set, complete (I was promised) with features and a pamphlets. I could see they could solace me in my lonely evenings (the way other of my favorite British serials seen over and over). I became so fond of Sam and respectful of Milner. Forster in What I Believe) this group of traits in the hero has often been cited as the programs’ highest important achievement. I loved the character of Foyle, what a relief as he held onto his moral compass (as good as E.M.
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Well, it took only the first three episodes to persuade me here was a series that transcended this popular genre, not just superbly well done, but having a complicated moral center in them individually and as a group that offered insights and warnings into the politics of our own time, especially the growth of fascism and uncontrolled capitalism. Good thing for I might never have tried them. I did not realize how these are in structures and basic tropes formulaic (including comic helper-maid, and endings where the villains often just confess when confronted by the truth) murder mystery stories.
I had been told how “wonderful” it is time and again, and stubbornly had resisted - why I don’t quite know. I began watching Foyle’s War around my birthday this past November by renting DVDs from Netflix.
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