I love Foyle's War. It is one of the best serials ever on television. My wife and I first watched it between about 2010-2012 here in the U. S. on P. B. S. It is great to be rewatching it now, 2024. I find that I have no memory whatever of most of the episodes.
Here, we are in May of 1945. Everyone knows the war is about over and the Germans must surrender, but it seems to keep dragging on. Foyle is ready to retire, but has been roped into being on a committee to oversee the expected celebrations as soon as the final peace is declared. Also on the committee is a U. S. Army major who Foyle met a few years earlier when he oversaw the construction of an air base. The major seems older, worn out, and preoccupied by something.
Also on the committee is a thirty-something man, a British army veteran, who seems to be very anxious, to the point of mental illness, and a doctor who is concerned about him. We see that at his home this nervous man is being harassed by odd letters and papers posted on his door. Before long both the doctor and the nervous man are dead.
There are two other threads, wonderfully interwoven, about a soldier returning home to his wife who has not seen him for four years, and Milner's pregnant wife about to give birth. The stress and strains of war are everywhere.
As usual everything is extremely well done. But I was disappointed in the ending. As in a few other episodes, Foyle confronts the person he has deduced to be the murderer, on the murderer's territory. Foyle is alone. Doesn't he want backup when he confronts a violent person? He explains his deductions and the murderer immediately confesses. Really?? It's that simple? I don't buy it. It's not realistic. I would have rated it a 9 with a better ending.
Here, we are in May of 1945. Everyone knows the war is about over and the Germans must surrender, but it seems to keep dragging on. Foyle is ready to retire, but has been roped into being on a committee to oversee the expected celebrations as soon as the final peace is declared. Also on the committee is a U. S. Army major who Foyle met a few years earlier when he oversaw the construction of an air base. The major seems older, worn out, and preoccupied by something.
Also on the committee is a thirty-something man, a British army veteran, who seems to be very anxious, to the point of mental illness, and a doctor who is concerned about him. We see that at his home this nervous man is being harassed by odd letters and papers posted on his door. Before long both the doctor and the nervous man are dead.
There are two other threads, wonderfully interwoven, about a soldier returning home to his wife who has not seen him for four years, and Milner's pregnant wife about to give birth. The stress and strains of war are everywhere.
As usual everything is extremely well done. But I was disappointed in the ending. As in a few other episodes, Foyle confronts the person he has deduced to be the murderer, on the murderer's territory. Foyle is alone. Doesn't he want backup when he confronts a violent person? He explains his deductions and the murderer immediately confesses. Really?? It's that simple? I don't buy it. It's not realistic. I would have rated it a 9 with a better ending.