Love the characters and atmosphere, so a new episode of Foyle's War's default minimum rating gets a 6 from me. I can't do any better than that for the story because it really isn't very good.
Implausibility rules here. For example, once again using Sam as an undercover operative in a clearly dangerous situation (men have already been murdered) is entirely unbelievable. To top it off, she has to be a LIVE-IN companion to the old American billionaire! She's a married woman! How does she explain this to her husband, the long-suffering chauvinistic MP? Well, she doesn't have to because the writes conveniently supply her with an excuse to leave home when she catches her husband in the clinch with one of his constituents. She must have been relieved to have a good excuse because she doesn't pause to give him a chance to explain that he was just consoling the woman over the loss of her job. (This storyline is conveniently abandoned at this point, making clear that feminism and equal rights to work were not high priorities in post-WW2 Britain.) The whole story was entirely too predictable, which is surprising for a Foyle's War episode; earlier episodes kept me guessing to the final denouement. I mean, the moment they told us one of a series of photos taken before the war in Nazi Germany, pictures of businessmen with Himmler, it didn't take a genius---or a Mr. Foyle---to figure out that an American businessman was compromised and trying to cover up the mess.
This story could have been done in a half hour, regrettably.
Two more episodes to go, and to review. I sure hope they get better!
Implausibility rules here. For example, once again using Sam as an undercover operative in a clearly dangerous situation (men have already been murdered) is entirely unbelievable. To top it off, she has to be a LIVE-IN companion to the old American billionaire! She's a married woman! How does she explain this to her husband, the long-suffering chauvinistic MP? Well, she doesn't have to because the writes conveniently supply her with an excuse to leave home when she catches her husband in the clinch with one of his constituents. She must have been relieved to have a good excuse because she doesn't pause to give him a chance to explain that he was just consoling the woman over the loss of her job. (This storyline is conveniently abandoned at this point, making clear that feminism and equal rights to work were not high priorities in post-WW2 Britain.) The whole story was entirely too predictable, which is surprising for a Foyle's War episode; earlier episodes kept me guessing to the final denouement. I mean, the moment they told us one of a series of photos taken before the war in Nazi Germany, pictures of businessmen with Himmler, it didn't take a genius---or a Mr. Foyle---to figure out that an American businessman was compromised and trying to cover up the mess.
This story could have been done in a half hour, regrettably.
Two more episodes to go, and to review. I sure hope they get better!