awzeped As an American, I predominately watch British TV shows, with detective series and time period pieces being my favorite. I find them far more interesting than anything we have. Foyle's War is probably my favorite since Downton Abbey. Christopher Foyle just has such a way about him; his persona is almost mesmerizing. Every word he speaks is so precise and well thought out. I love the characters, I love the scripts...pretty much everything is easy watching. I see people complain about no Closed Captioning. But there certainly is, as I've watched all episodes so far with it on. My only complaint is there seemed to be a disconnect in a few of the story lines. However, if you're looking for an interesting, educational and all around enjoyable series, please do give this a tray. I honestly can't say enough about how well M. Kitchen plays the character of Foyle.

enavarro1 I was very pleasantly surprised to have found such a wonderful series. My wife and I have thoroughly enjoyed every episode of all the seasons. It is a pleasure to be able to watch a well thought out story, performed by such gifted actors that made all their characters so thoroughly believable. Also, living in America, I find it SO very pleasurable to watch a show where everyone speaks such beautiful English and where, even the criminals behave as if they lived in a civilized society and where manners and culture are still observed and universally practiced. We just watched the last episode of the 2015 season on Netflix and I came online tonight to try to find out if there is a new 2016 season in the works. I realize that the cast has been together since 2002 and I am sure that their age and that of the show itself will be difficult to overlook but I/we sincerely hope that there will be another. Good show!

blanche-2 What to say about this amazing series that puts the viewer in the middle of England before, during, and after World War II.Michael Kitchen is the widowed Chief Inspector Foyle, an excellent police detective, too old to fight, who wants to get into government service as the country prepares for war. But he's needed at home because yes, even though it's wartime, people are still out murdering.His team includes a man who lost his leg fighting overseas, Milner (Anthony Howell) and his pert young driver, Sam (Honeysuckle Weeks).What is unique about this series is the atmosphere and attention to detail in the dialogue as well as in the production. These are people who deal with coupon books, rations, farms conscripted, boys fighting, debilitating injury, bombings, PTSD, lack of food, wealthy people annoyed by the war who leave the city to avoid bombs, profiteering, gas shortages - it's an amazing look at what England suffered. And what they thought - when and if the Americans entered the war, would they help England, for instance. And then the problems when the war is over, and we know England faced lots of those.It's all the more fascinating because we still tend to glamorize WW II in our country.Foyle's War completely transports you into this world.The murder mysteries are fascinating and solved cleverly by the brilliant Foyle, an acute observer. His is not an easy character to warm up to - in fact, you never really do. He doesn't let loose with his emotions, and even when he does, all that happens is that his speech becomes clipped. He's very reserved, even when watching his only son go off to war, and he's a man of few words. But the pain is on his face when he looks at his wife's grave.Foyle also doesn't hesitate to break the rules. He's loved and respected by his team and those in the station, though.Michael Kitchen isn't good in this role - he's phenomenal, creating a multilayered character ruled by his brain and his respect for the law, but also with a heart he doesn't show.As Sam, Honeysuckle Weeks is delightful, young, fast-talking, loyal, and helpful, and what's great is her life changes throughout the years, as does Milner's. Anthony Howell is wonderful as Milner, also with the British reserve as he tries to cope with his disability and, in the beginning, a wife who can't cope with it at all. His life also changes, and so does he.Truly one of the best series I've ever seen. Don't miss it. The scripts are great, the mysteries are fantastic, and you'll find yourself wrapped up in the English world during very dark days.

Bert45 I was an early fan of Foyle's War, especially Michael Kitchen's portrayal of the title character, which is a master class in fine nuance and understatement. The way Kitchen can convey a wealth of meaning with the slightest glance or change in tone when speaking is wonderful to watch. It's almost as if he was born to play this character. Also, the whole concept of police work having to continue as normally as possible in a time of war is intriguing. In many ways, the job would have been so much harder with the backdrop of war and the resultant shortage of resources and increase in disruption. It was a fine idea from the start. Having said that, I found as the series went on and I began to review earlier episodes that something about it had begun to irritate me, and I eventually realised that it was the way in which most of the other characters - apart from Foyle's own inner circle - were portrayed as uniformly negative. Granted, this is a crime and murder-mystery series, so Foyle is dealing primarily with criminals and red-herring characters. But sometimes, it seems as though the writer Anthony Horowitz wants us to believe everyone in wartime Britain was either rotten to the core or afflicted with moral cowardice. No doubt not everyone displayed the "bulldog spirit" that got the nation through those difficult years - every country at war has its share of defeatists, shirkers and traitors - but Horowitz seemed unwilling to allow that positive determined quality in any of his "guest" characters, whether major or minor in the story. This is especially true of anyone in a position of authority. Just about every single person that Foyle deals with who holds rank or official status is portrayed in varying degrees as arrogant, callous, treacherous, obstructive or incompetent - sometimes a combination of these. It's as though Horowitz wants us to think that either Britain's entire wartime leadership was working against its own national interests or that there was never a sense of righteousness in the fight against Nazism. Foyle's War sometimes seemed to be against his own government and his own superiors. On the odd occasion this might have been a useful plot device, but was it necessary for it to be such a constant theme? I can't help wondering what the motive was for this, but I do know that over time it began to spoil my enjoyment of the show.