{"id":1101,"date":"2010-11-16T15:51:52","date_gmt":"2010-11-16T13:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ofcourseimright.com\/?p=1101"},"modified":"2010-11-16T15:51:52","modified_gmt":"2010-11-16T13:51:52","slug":"like-or-dislike-foyles-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/?p=1101","title":{"rendered":"Like or Dislike: Foyles War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foyleswar.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1102 alignleft\" title=\"Foyle's War\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ofcourseimright.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/foyles-war.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"215\" height=\"121\" \/><\/a>To blow off steam after what can be a very long day, Christine and I will occasionally watch TV, like most of the rest of the world.\u00a0 Most of what we watch is on DVD, and my current favorite is a show called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foyleswar.com\/\">Foyle&#8217;s War<\/a>, created by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anthonyhorowitz.com\/\">Anthony Horowitz<\/a>.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a combination of murder mystery and historical fiction, at the outset of World War II.\u00a0 Played by veteran <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0457655\/\">Michael Kitchen<\/a>, Chief Detective Inspector Foyle covers the beat of <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/?ie=UTF8&amp;ll=51.006842,0.966797&amp;spn=2.080843,4.031982&amp;z=8\">Hastings<\/a>, an English coastal town.\u00a0 Kitchen depicts our hero as a stiff-upper-lipped classic English gentleman, with a stick <strong><em>so<\/em><\/strong> far up his posterior, you wonder how he walks.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" align=\"right\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" marginheight=\"4\" marginwidth=\"4\" src=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/?ie=UTF8&amp;ll=50.750359,0.686646&amp;spn=1.042665,1.647949&amp;t=h&amp;z=8&amp;output=embed\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nWhat I like about the show is that it really gives you a feel for the sorts of hardships the British endured during the war, and how they endured them.\u00a0 Families were torn apart, there was very limited food to eat, there were prisoners of war, bombings, land confiscations by the government, the invasion of the American troops.\u00a0 And mixed into all of this, a murder or two.<\/p>\n<p>While there&#8217;s occasional blood and guts, there are no DNA labs, no fancy police cars, or for that matter, fancy getaway cars.\u00a0 Just a game of wit to get you through.<\/p>\n<p>Rate Foyle&#8217;s War in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ofcourseimright.com\">OfCourseImRight<\/a> Poll:<\/p>\n<div id=\"polls-11\" class=\"wp-polls\">\n\t<form id=\"polls_form_11\" class=\"wp-polls-form\" action=\"\/index.php\" method=\"post\">\n\t\t<p style=\"display: none;\"><input type=\"hidden\" id=\"poll_11_nonce\" name=\"wp-polls-nonce\" value=\"b13351efb5\" \/><\/p>\n\t\t<p style=\"display: none;\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"poll_id\" value=\"11\" \/><\/p>\n\t\t<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Foyle's War: To your tastes?<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"polls-11-ans\" class=\"wp-polls-ans\"><ul class=\"wp-polls-ul\">\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-47\" name=\"poll_11\" value=\"47\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-47\">The best I've seen<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-48\" name=\"poll_11\" value=\"48\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-48\">Pretty darn good, but not the best<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-49\" name=\"poll_11\" value=\"49\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-49\">Okay<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-50\" name=\"poll_11\" value=\"50\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-50\">Lousy, but not the worst<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-51\" name=\"poll_11\" value=\"51\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-51\">The worst.<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-52\" name=\"poll_11\" value=\"52\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-52\">Foyle's Who?<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<\/ul><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><input type=\"button\" name=\"vote\" value=\"   Vote   \" class=\"Buttons\" onclick=\"poll_vote(11);\" \/><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"#ViewPollResults\" onclick=\"poll_result(11); 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