What am I watching?

 , I've been spending a lot of time in WWII in Great Britain, particularly Hastings, watching Foyle bite his inner cheek, as he deduces who done it.  I love this show and am already so involved in the characters' lives. I feel sorry for them, being bombed all the time, and now running low on Scotch, and onions. But I love the fact that MUUUURRRRDDDDER is still rampant, and finding the bugger is still being accomplished.
 My fave is the girl-driver Sam Stewart, played by Honeysuckle Weeks. What a name. What's she called for short?

 Occasionally I will watch a movie, with no murders, sigh. The Golden Bowl, a Merchant Ivory production, was glorious for the great costumes, sets, and castles, manor homes and gardens. My kind of eye candy.
The Edge of Love, again, WWII in England and Wales, was dreary, unintelligible and bleak. Supposedly based on the two loves of Dylan Thomas the poet, drunk and leaning on women for financial support. I only kept watching because I was knitting...
Land Girls is a four parter, and very light, even tho it is...wait for it...
set in WWII in England!
One of the Foyle's War episodes featured a murder involving Land Girls, so I thought I would watch something about this army of women who fed the nation during the war. I am enjoying it even tho it's without a murder...yet.



I happen to be reading a Lincoln Lawyer series book, (The Reversal) by Michael Connelly, and even tho I've already watched The Lincoln Lawyer last winter, I rewatched, to re-enjoy Matthew McConaughey. I hope this becomes a franchise, as the books are great.
I would recommend Vera, a cop-procedural four parter to you, only if you can wade through a very tough Northumberland accent. Not WWII, but contemporary, including cell phones and DNA! Brenda Blethyn as Vera the boss DCI is great, disheveled, frumpy and smart. She accepts a drink at every witnesses' house, unlike most cops.
I checked to see if there were more episodes, and yes, there will be the ones from this year, to come. Hurray! The vast landscape and all the castle ruins are just so romantic and historic.

I started all this murder mystery stuff with Midsomer Murders, which also has wonderful homes and gardens and lots of dead bodies, but I am losing interest, and will only watch an episode as a warm up for Foyle. There were 93 episodes and I watched about 40 before Netflix dropped all but the most recently produced. I fear for the health of the main character, who is out of breath from the least exertion, and I don't think it is acting.
The actor who plays Foyle is Michael Kitchen, who I first noticed in this two parter, The Guilty. He plays the bad guy, and is just wonderfully bad. Loved him. So then I found him in again in Foyle's War and would you believe he turned up in a small part in My Week with Marilyn?




Michelle Williams was absolutely perfect for this part, and Kenneth Branagh played the role of Sir Laurence Olivier dead on! Marilyn was a pitiful woman, as the story showed. Sad.

The hot weather continues, but the house is cool and I am getting my knitting and a bit of cooking accomplished. The green beans and zucchini are abundant. Tomatoes soon to follow.