Dept. Q

Name: Dept. Q
Director: Chandi Lakhani
Genre: Crime/detective, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Released: 2025
Cast: Matthew Goode, Kelly Macdonald, Chloe Pirrie, Alexej Manvelov, Shirley Henderson

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2025

Crime/detective
Drama

Summary

Detective Carl Morck has few friends at work in the Edinburgh police force in a gritty eight-part investigation based on Jussi Adler-Olsen's series of books. When he is involved in a fatal shooting that costs a young officer his life, superiors consign Morck to the basement to head up a newly created task force, Department Q, to prevent any further damage to the force's reputation. Morck's team are charged with reviewing cold cases - a thankless task with a statistically low chance of success. This band of misfits includes self-doubting rookie Rose and Akram Salim. When Morck's relentless pursuit of the truth unearths new leads into the unsolved disappearance of a prominent civil servant several years ago, he seizes a second chance at professional glory aided by police therapist Dr Rachel Irving

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Jack Seale

Matthew Goode is another troubled, abrasive sleuth for crime fans to pore over in a plush new series from writer/director Scott Frank, who previously brought us Godless and The Queen’s Gambit. This one isn’t quite as distinctive as those two, since it’s a UK-set crime drama that’s basically Slow Horses for homicide detectives.

Goode plays Carl Morck, a brilliant investigator with PTSD and some seriously lacking interpersonal skills, leading a motley crew of outcasts whose Edinburgh office is in a dank basement and who take on cold cases nobody else wants.

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8.1/10