Personally, I felt this was an excellent beginning to the series. The murderer wasn't immediately obvious, there was danger, suspense, Russian accents and a conspiracy that went right to the top. What more could you want?
The good thing was,the episode was far from black and white. The Russians in danger were no saints- they had fought for the Germans- and yet we were encouraged to feel for them. And the villain, while organising the shooting of Foyle and Sam and sending people back to Russia to be horrifically executed, after all only wanted the exchange of British people held by Stalin, and was in fact an old acquaintance of Mr Foyle.
Comment on anachronisms, as pedantic reviewers are wont to do, is unfair and irrelevant. The series has to be understood by contemporary viewers, and if we never got anything wrong, we'd never write anything. What is far more important is the writing, which was, on the whole, good.
Foyle's war is as good as ever. May there be many more series.
The good thing was,the episode was far from black and white. The Russians in danger were no saints- they had fought for the Germans- and yet we were encouraged to feel for them. And the villain, while organising the shooting of Foyle and Sam and sending people back to Russia to be horrifically executed, after all only wanted the exchange of British people held by Stalin, and was in fact an old acquaintance of Mr Foyle.
Comment on anachronisms, as pedantic reviewers are wont to do, is unfair and irrelevant. The series has to be understood by contemporary viewers, and if we never got anything wrong, we'd never write anything. What is far more important is the writing, which was, on the whole, good.
Foyle's war is as good as ever. May there be many more series.