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Foyle's War
Apparently last night's episode was the final instalment of "Foyle's War", after 13 years real time and 6 years on-screen :-(
But this final set of three episodes has been up to the standard of the series since the beginning, even though they're now dealing with crime set against the social issues of postwar London rather than crime going on along the south coast under the Blitz. And the war, as ever, is very much in the background of everyone's minds: this final episode hinges around an attempted revenge killing for a wartime tragedy that turns out to have been mere bureaucratic incompetence rather than treason after all. As ever, intelligently nuanced (are spivs bleeding the country dry by circumventing the rationing system, or are they just giving people the tiny taste of luxury that is so desperately needed? To what degree do national interests abroad justify a domestic cover-up where murder is concerned? What atrocities and personal betrayals can be condoned in return for anti-Semitism?)
Better perhaps to go out on a high; and Michael Kitchen as ex-Superintendent Foyle is starting to look a little aged and fragile.
And one thing that struck me in that final farewell scene is that this is *one* show boasting a craggy male lead and a younger, prettier female sidekick who are extremely fond of each other with absolutely zero sexual tension between them :-) (In fact, at this stage of the series Sam is happily and loyally married to someone else, which informs quite a few of the subplots; very unusual.)
But this final set of three episodes has been up to the standard of the series since the beginning, even though they're now dealing with crime set against the social issues of postwar London rather than crime going on along the south coast under the Blitz. And the war, as ever, is very much in the background of everyone's minds: this final episode hinges around an attempted revenge killing for a wartime tragedy that turns out to have been mere bureaucratic incompetence rather than treason after all. As ever, intelligently nuanced (are spivs bleeding the country dry by circumventing the rationing system, or are they just giving people the tiny taste of luxury that is so desperately needed? To what degree do national interests abroad justify a domestic cover-up where murder is concerned? What atrocities and personal betrayals can be condoned in return for anti-Semitism?)
Better perhaps to go out on a high; and Michael Kitchen as ex-Superintendent Foyle is starting to look a little aged and fragile.
And one thing that struck me in that final farewell scene is that this is *one* show boasting a craggy male lead and a younger, prettier female sidekick who are extremely fond of each other with absolutely zero sexual tension between them :-) (In fact, at this stage of the series Sam is happily and loyally married to someone else, which informs quite a few of the subplots; very unusual.)
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