“Foyle’s War”–Crime Foiled
I am addicted to the series “Foyle’s War” (six extraordinary seasons –2002-2010–on BBC Television) now available through Netflix. Set in a small coastal town, Hastings, in Great Britain during World War II, a middle-aged police chief, Detective Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle (the underrated Michael Kitchen) assumes the responsibility of solving murders in the midst of the confusion of war. While war rages around the world, perpetrators both civilian and military assume they can commit all sorts of heinous crimes with impunity: murder, robbery,...