In this series of Foyle’s War we’ve been exploring the idea of trust in the postwar world. Who are friends? Who are enemies? Who do you rely on to keep you safe and secure? The answers are neither easy nor obvious. “Sunflower,” the final episode of Foyle’s War, makes that painfully clear. For if you…
Inside a lovely home, a phone rings. A woman answers it. She listens for a moment, says two words into the receiver, places it back in the cradle, picks up a briefcase and a passport and slips out the door before her husband looks up from his afternoon paper to notice she’s gone. What begins…
The basic premise of Foyle’s War—a police inspector left to enforce the law on the homefront during World War II—came to the end of its natural life when the series timeline reached the end of World War II. But Foyle, and his creator Anthony Horowitz, weren’t quite ready to give up. So, happily, Foyle’s War…
When we last saw our hero DCS Christopher Foyle, World War II had come to an end and so had Foyle’s War, the slow-but-steady mystery series that has been a Masterpiece Mystery and PBS mainstay for seven seasons. That was 2010 and the end of Foyle’s War was to be expected. The show’s premise, a…
