Foyle's War

Any reaction or thoughts (British and otherwise) to the recent conclusion of Season 6? I was quite a late comer to the series and still haven't caught up on all the episodes from the first 3 seasons. PBS here has aired the last 7 episodes, concluding the series with the ending of WWII. I do hear there is some talk of continuing with Foyle in peacetime, however.
I've really grown to appreciate and love the series. The talents of Michael Kitchen are reason enough to watch and at first I thought it was simply another good British detective series. Multiple episodes have really drawn me into seeing the ambiguities of crime and justice in wartime and Foyle's unflinching pursuit of the right.
I do love the settings and costuming and particularly appreciate the casting which seems so very real - ordinary looking people living ordinary lives. British historical dramas seem to excell at this, IMHO . American dramas seem to need every character - particularly the women - to be young, gorgeous, and an ultra sucessful professional.
I hope they will continue Foyle - I also see there is more Inspector Lynley coming as well.

Although I think "Broken Souls" was the strongest episode of this latest series, I think the absolute best moment was when everyone was crowded around the radio at the station, listening to Churchill announce the end of the war. I felt like cheering and crying at the same time, which I imagine is about what people would have been feeling at the time, so kudos to the show for conveying that so well.

In case you can't tell, I'm a huge fan.

It is such a clever concept - of the innumerable excellent stories of WWII on film and in print, to delve into the ambiguites of justice and crime fighting on the home front as they have done is quite unique.

It seems terribly realistic - I read somewhere they used some sort of suede filter to give a softer and older tint to the picture. And could anyone do it better than the superb Michael Kitchen - so wonderfully understated with a look, an expression, a single word saying much more. Yes, a thoroughly enjoyable VE Day scene.

Well, I recently viewed the final three episodes (on DVD, the series has never been shown on TV here) and enjoyed them very much. Broken Souls was my favourite as well by the way. I agree that the VE day scene was very moving, and (not surprisingly) very well acted.

For me as a German it was very interesting to "live" the end of the war from another perspective. I'd probably have thought that with England being the victor and the war being over, everybody would just go crazy with joy. But it was much more complicated than that:
- the soldiers coming home, sometimes after years, and being estranged from their wifes
- the young men accustomed to a life of high risk, but also of high intensity, now supposed to go back to 9-5 jobs
- the women accustomed to doing every kind of job, probably supposed to go back to the kitchen

Horrid as it was the war gave sense to people's life, it held their life together. Now that it's over they will have to redefine themselves... and that's one of the reasons why I think that new episodes set in post-war England, provided they come with Foyle/Kitchen of course, would be quite fascinating (the infos concerning the new season are still a bit scanty and sometimes even contradictory)

I love, love, love this series.

Has anybody here viewed movie "Fatherland'? The point is that Michael Kitchen play a excellent part as a detective in the SS. it is quite disconcerting seeing British actors who've you seen player parts in an organization which has been seen as the very epitome of evil. They make the organization as another policing arm of government. It does play those actors such as Kitchen as decent people and then place into an environment which we would never see the, I don't know about anyone else but I as thrown by this and it took me some time, as in a second viewing, to get over it.