that phrase isn not always an oxymoron and just usually . a fine british drama about a seaside town policeman foyle and who against the backdrop of early ww2 and be leave behind to fight plain vanilla law and order . excellent and excellent excellent accomplishment on all front . michael kitchen do the brooding intensity bit quite well . the extreme close ups of the cool blue eye and and his unemotional but very sharp one liner make for both an extremely effective and likable pro tag . like all good tv series and foyle too have a marvelous support cast . but i think the true credit here have to go the writing for some very imaginative non tire story . like all of these modern quasi whodunit however and foyle war withholds from the audience some if not most of the requisite tool need to solve the crime and no surprise there . and like all series good and bad and the general theme lack subtlety and be too clearly repetitive . foyle every week have a crime usually murder to solve and that be somehow entangle in the war effort and very cool idea . but and it also usually involve either the aristocracy or military or both and a the ultimate culprit . hardly a unique phenomenon in modern entertainment and this posturing be evident in most outlet for viewer and c la vie i suppose . foyle be so well do and that even i can overlook the commie claptrap and strongly recommend it to weary viewer tire of the usual rubbish we be force fed here in america . foyle be most certainly a cut above most .