Second Best TV Show Ever

I think I have mentioned that HBO: The Wire is the best TV show ever (after watching a few episodes of Gunsmoke on TV Land I find that memory has played tricks as to the quality of that classic).

I have also mentioned my Anglophile fondness for BBC detective series. Absolutely Nothing Happening. I recently came across a phenomenally good series called Foyle's War. The show stars Michael Kitchen as Detective Chief Superintendent (DCS) Christopher Foyle, a frustrated detective in the backwater of Hastings who would rather be serving more directly in the war effort. Things have been quiet in Hastings for the past millennium since the Invasion of England, 1066.

Fortunately for us, the British government turns him down and he goes about solving murders in East Essex on the southeast coast. His driver is a young woman with the unlikely name of Sam Stewart played an actress with the even more unlikely name of Honeysuckle Weeks. His sergeant is a vet who lost his leg in Norway.

Foyle's demeanor and doggedly persistent approach to solving crimes is one attraction. The back story of England during the war and the meticulous attention to detail sets the series apart.

Start here Foyle's war. [Episode 1], The German woman (DVD) [videorecording] / to reserve a copy on LinkCat.

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Masterpiece Foyle's War PBS

MYSTERY! Foyle's War