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Edinburgh Live
14 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Edinburgh Live
Matthew Goode was 'cut' from Scott Frank's other Netflix series with Downton Abbey co-star
Our community members are treated to special offers, promotions and adverts from us and our partners. You can check out at any time. More info Matthew Goode, the star of Department Q, was originally slated for a role in another hit Netflix series by Scott Frank, but his scene ended up on the cutting room floor. During a live Q&A at the press screening of Department Q, Frank disclosed that he had intended for Goode to make an appearance in his acclaimed Western series Godless. The esteemed writer and director, famed for his work on the award-winning Netflix series The Queen's Gambit, divulged details about Goode's overlooked part. Currently, Goode is captivating audiences as DCI Carl Morck in Department Q, sharing the screen with talents such as Chloe Pirrie, Jamie Sives, and Kelly Macdonald. (Image: NETFLIX) This article contains affiliate links, we will receive a commission on any sales we generate from it. Learn more Free Netflix subscription Get Netflix free with Sky Sky is giving away a free Netflix subscription with its new TV bundles, including the £15 Essential TV plan. Members can watch live and on-demand TV content without a satellite dish, including hit shows like The Last of Us, Black Mirror and all WWE programming. from £15 Sky Get the deal here Reflecting on the chance to collaborate with Frank after years since their first encounter, Goode expressed his admiration for Godless at the Q&A screener event for Department Q, Reach can confirm. "I'm so pleased you got to make your Western," Goode remarked to Frank, prompting the director to interject playfully: "Tell them the little detail about Godless... That you were in it and I cut you out!" The two shared a laugh as Scott further explained: "He was in this coda that we shot and then it turned out that we didn't need the coda, but Matthew was amazing in that. He played a sheriff." Set in 1884, Godless follows a young fugitive from his vindictive mentor seeking sanctuary in a New Mexico settlement unusually dominated by women. The mini-series features Jack O'Connell from Skins as Roy Goode and Michelle Dockery as Alice Fletcher, reports the Express. Matthew Goode and Michelle Dockery, known for their roles as Henry Talbot and Lady Mary in the hit ITV period drama Downton Abbey, graced the screen together from 2014 to 2015. Goode initially joined the Downton Abbey cast as a guest star in season 5 before taking on a main role in season 6. (Image: ITV) Department Q has been grabbing headlines this week following its release on Netflix, with critics showering it with high praise. Netflix describes the series with the following synopsis: "DCI Carl Morck is a brilliant cop but a terrible colleague. His razor-sharp sarcasm has made him no friends in Edinburgh Police. "After a shooting that leaves a young PC dead, and his partner paralysed, he finds himself exiled to the basement and the sole member of Dept. Q; a newly formed cold case unit. "The department is a PR stunt, there to distract the public from the failures of an under-resourced, failing police force that is glad to see the back of him. "But more by accident than design, Carl starts to build a gang of waifs and strays who have everything to prove. "So, when the stone-cold trail of a prominent civil servant who disappeared several years ago starts to heat up, Carl is back doing what he does best - rattling cages and refusing to take no for an answer." Fans can now stream Department Q and Godless on Netflix.
Scotsman
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Scotsman
Inside the "strange and weird" world of Dept. Q with Edinburgh's Chloe Pirrie
Surreal, strange, weird... what happens when you set a Scandi noir crime drama in Scotland. Sign up to our daily newsletter – Regular news stories and round-ups from around Scotland direct to your inbox Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Learn More Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting... 'Extraordinary moments, surreal, strange things…' Attempting to describe her favourite part of filming new Netflix drama Dept. Q when we speak ahead of its launch, Chloe Pirrie is immediately tied up in avoiding spoilers, such is the extraordinary turn of events that befall her character. 'There are moments, but I can't say what they were because it'll give it away,' she says, 'strange, weird things…' Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad An adaptation of the novels of Danish author, Jussi Adler-Olsen by acclaimed showrunner Scott Frank (The Queen's Gambit), written with Chandni Lakhani, Stephen Greenhorn and Colette Kane, the nine-part Netflix drama launches this week. Following the tale of Merritt Lingard, a high-flying lawyer played by Pirrie whose fate becomes intertwined with that of detective Carl Morck (Matthew Goode), who has been kicked downstairs to head up a new cold case department after an investigation went awry leaving his partner paralysed (Jamie Sives), the tense thriller sees them both pushed to their limits. Also starring are Alexej Manvelov (Jack Ryan, Top Dog), Kate Dickie, Kelly Macdonald (Line of Duty, Operation Mincemeat) and Leah Byrne (Call The Midwife, Nightsleeper) and an ensemble cast featuring many Scottish actors. Pirrie is a familiar face from TV and film, appearing in last year's Canadian horror film Kryptic, The Crown, Netflix's The Queen's Gambit, Emma, War & Peace, BBC's miniseries thriller The Victim and as Emily Bronte in Sally Wainwright's To Walk Invisible. Chloe Pirrie stars as Merritt Lingard in Dept. Q, filmed in Edinburgh. | Netflix Raised in Edinburgh, the daughter of a physiotherapist and a lawyer, Pirrie started acting at school in The Cherry Orchard and went on to study at Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. After a career launching appearance in Scott Graham's award-winning indie feature film Shell with Iain De Caestecker and Kate Dickie in 2010, she was named Best Newcomer at the British Independent Film Awards and a Screen International Star of Tomorrow. She soon landed roles in BBC2 Cold War spy thriller The Game alongside Brian Cox, Sky Atlantic's crime series The Last Panthers with Samantha Morton and John Hurt, Oscar-nominated comedy drama Youth with Michael Caine and Rachel Weisz and black comedy road movie Burn, Burn Burn. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad At the start of the series Pirrie's Merritt Lingard is a prosecutor at the top of her game, fighting for justice and described by some as a 'blunt instrument'. Brought up on Mull by an absent father, when her brother suffers a brain injury she becomes his protector and following the biggest case of her career, decides to make a change, with dramatic consequences. 'Merritt operates on a basis of not needing to be liked, doesn't have many friends and is a bit of a mystery to the people around her,' says Pirrie. 'She has very successfully compartmentalised her life in terms of her past and current work situation but is starting to struggle under the pressure of the case she's prosecuting. 'We're seeing somebody who is maybe not as in control as they're used to being. Chloe Pirrie and Mark Bonnar as lawyers in Dept. Q, Netflix's Scottish adaptation of Jussi-Alder Olsen's Scandi Noir series. | Netflix 'This case is more high profile but is coming with baggage she hasn't anticipated. Obstacles start to emerge that she doesn't understand and the frustration is starting to get under her skin. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad 'Alongside this she is receiving anonymous threatening messages.' In terms of preparing for the part of Merritt, the lawyer element was straightforward as Pirrie has experience of playing a lawyer from The Victim in 2019. 'That was less of a thriller and more about depicting and anatomising someone's trial, so that gave me a lot. I did a lot of research for that and you become a bit more acquainted with the differences in the Scottish legal system and I went to the WS society and Signet Library where my dad works and got a bit of insight of the culture and expectations in that legal world. 'Also I watched a lot of murder trial documentaries where you learn so much about how a profession works and I just love doing that kind of research. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad 'And for Merritt, she's somebody who has quite a different background from others in that profession so it was understanding what might be most challenging for her and those encountering someone who does things differently or doesn't conform.' For Merritt, a belief that those who commit a crime don't ever truly get away with it and that through justice, conscience or karma, the universe will see them ultimately punished, helps sustain her on the wild ride on which her life takes her. Chloe Pirrie at the premiere of Under The Banner Of Heaven in Hollywood, California, 2022. |'This may be one of Merritt's blindspots,' says Pirrie. 'She's very hyperfocused on the right thing when it applies to others but has so successfully buried things as she's evolved that I don't think she ever turns the lens on herself. We learn more about that later in the show. It's interesting playing someone who isn't interested in self-reflection. We see that in scenes I have with Mark Bonnar, and her colleagues, where she's butting heads because she is unwilling to listen, and that serves her in some ways but not in others.' Does Pirrie think it's true, that people ultimately get punished? Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad 'I don't know. I'd like to think so. Maybe the gentler version is 'what's for you won't go by you', but I don't know if that is entirely true. You obviously trust in the justice system as much as you can, but we all know it has limitations and is always trying to adapt. It depends what justice means to you I suppose.' Originally a Scandi noir thriller, Scott Frank has transposed the story to a Scottish setting with Edinburgh locations, institutions and fictional characters up front and centre. 'The show does that so successfully, Scott did a fantastic job. Being an American, it's amazing how somebody can assimilate and locate, very specifically, people and qualities and with excellent performances and the right cast, bring something to life that felt very specific to me. For the Edinburgh born and raised actor this was a homecoming. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad 'Because I'm from Edinburgh, it was really cool seeing it on screen, and a full circle moment as I've never worked here before. It was quite magical from that point of view. I just loved that.' Now based in North London, Pirrie's career has taken her all over for work, from Calgary to Prague, but once back in the capital for Dept. Q she enjoyed getting reacquainted. 'Chips and sauce, chips and cheese,' were top of the agenda, as well as catching up with family and friends. 'I had an apartment and it was really nice to spend more time in Edinburgh. I brought my car and my dog and had the freedom of returning as an adult with my own life. It was like discovering the city again, finding new places I hadn't known growing up like The Secret Herb Garden and there are so many restaurants because the food scene's gone insane. I really enjoyed going to old favourite places but also discovering new ones.' Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad 'And the cast were amazing, some of whom I've worked with before and some who are new. It was great to see all these amazing Scottish actors together.' Chloe Pirrie | Photographer: Josh Shinner Stylist: Fabio Immediato Make-up: Amanda Grossman Hair: Davide Barbieri Now 37, if Pirrie reflects on her career, what would she say to her younger self? 'That it doesn't really get any easier but you're also doing way better than you think you are in terms of how you are navigating it. I'd say continue to try to not compare yourself to others as much as possible. I would tell her you are going to have the fortune to work with some really amazing people so savour the really amazing moments on set - that is the most important thing I think. 'Increasingly the industry is very noisy, there are so many extraneous things, but always return to the work because that's what is important, the time between action and cut. Keep focusing on that, because that's always where I felt 'oh I know how to do this', so keep feeling that way.' What sort of things make the industry 'noisy'? Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad 'Things to do with publicity and knowledge about how things are made, which can make it really daunting. When I graduated a certain naivety was possible because whenever I didn't get a job I didn't know how to look up who got it but now there's an overwhelm of information. 'Being able to go into rooms, do an audition, leave and that would be that, was an amazing privilege. It's so rare to go into a room and meet someone in person, which is mad, because your interaction with another actor is such a personal thing. I'd tell my younger self soak up those opportunities to work in a room with people, whether you get the job or not.' Pirrie has worked with the show's acclaimed runner Scott Frank before, on The Queen's Gambit, in which she played Anya Taylor-Joy's birth mother. What insight did this give her into how Frank works? 'The Queen's Gambit was a wonderful job and what happened with the series blowing up was so rewarding. Scott creates an environment that is so special; he's so in control but also very freeing. That's a really amazing quality in a director. The quality of attention on set from everyone there is something you feel like you're part of and that's created by him. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad 'With The Queen's Gambit I was terrified because it was the first time I'd done an American accent and the first thing I had to do was improvise a load of stuff but it was so supportive. You feel like you're able to do your best work and can also fail and it doesn't matter. He's the best in that sense as a director. So stepping into this which is a role much more on my shoulders I suppose I did feel a lot of anxiety but he'd asked me to do it and I knew I was in safe hands.' Playing everything from heiresses and Mormon wives to petrol station assistants, the particular circumstances that befall Lingard make this role a unique experience for Pirrie and led to some of her favourite on set moments. 'I liked the emotional intensity of it. I have played people in a similar state for a short time - not the same circumstance - but not in such a protracted way. It's such a strange situation… 'And we spent a day on a ferry from Thurso and that was really cool because I'd never been that far north and it was a beautiful experience, to be doing your job on a little ferry travelling, and also the drive up there is really stunning, you pinch yourself. People pay a fortune to do this as tourists and I'm getting to go for my job. There were lots of moments like that. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad 'There was also my first day on set walking around Edinburgh and the first thing I did was sit in Princes Street Gardens where I spent so many Saturdays as a teenager. It was quite extraordinary to do that and really full circle.' Chloe Pirrie attends the Vogue x Netflix BAFTA Television Awards 2024 in London. | Getty Images Which roles or people she's worked with have been pivotal in her career? 'Well Shell was my first big job, it was a leading part, and was a really formative experience with Scott Graham. It was my first time being able to play somebody the camera follows through every scene. I had to throw myself into it and didn't really know what I was doing. It was purely on instinct and you're figuring out technique as you go. 'And I would say playing Emily [Bronte] was really big for me, because it was such a freeing thing. Emily's somebody who's surprising to people and working with Sally Wainwright and that cast was amazing so I really cherish that job a lot. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad 'Then The Queen's Gambit I loved for the way it worked. That part was quite small but important, and that's something I love about Scott, that there are no small parts. Even if someone's got one line, there's nothing perfunctory or accidental in the way he works, and that's amazing to be around. 'Under The Banner of Heaven [in 2022, in which Pirrie played a Scottish woman who has married into a fundamentalist Mormon family from Utah who commit a series of murders] which I did a few years ago, was amazing but different because I was playing someone profoundly not free, so that was also a really interesting experience from that point of view. Next up for Pirrie, after a well-earned week in the sun in Greece, is season four of Industry, the HBO hit about a group of junior traders at the London office of a city firm, now expanding its scope to follow the characters in the US. 'I did a little bit in season 3 and I'm reprising that. Industry is really fun, such a different thing. That's something I love about my job, that all sets are the same but also profoundly different and how the energy of a show really translates and how what is required of you can be really different. Industry means playing highly competent people which is hard because there's nowhere to put the vulnerability, you have to hold that together. It's really interesting, highly competent people who are melting down from the inside out is a really niche thing, and Industry definitely runs that concept to its absolute extreme. And then I don't know what I'm doing,' she says and smiles. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Pirrie is content to take each role as it comes, and doesn't think too far ahead about parts she'd like to play. 'I try to take it as it arrives towards me as much as possible. And when you receive a script that makes you sit up and be forward and hoover up whatever it is, you give it everything you have, regardless of the outcome.' As for genres, she has a surprising penchant, as yet to be explored. 'Ok, so one of my favourite genres is submarine movies. I have a real thing about submarines and I would love to do one of those. And I can ride horses fairly competently - I learnt as a kid - and I've never got to do it because it's often something men do in things, go off into battle. So I'm waiting for that moment where someone says 'could you do that on a horse?' and I'll say 'Absolutely!' Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad 'I actually made a short film recently that I'm editing now, that's a little bit about when I was young and working at a stables and imagining a life where I continued to do that. Maybe I'm creating opportunities for myself somehow, but I'd love to use that skill in some way. And it would be fun to learn to climb, swim in a particular way, dive, do stunt driving, to really push it.' In the meantime what Pirrie wants most is to be able to talk about Dept. Q without worrying about spoilers, which brings us full circle back to those 'extraordinary moments, surreal, strange things…'
Metro
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Metro
Cancel your weekend plans to binge new Netflix thriller hailed 'pure greatness'
Netflix's new Scotland-set crime thriller is already proving a hit with subscribers, having climbed up to the third spot in the streamer's TV ranking just a day after its release. Starring Matthew Goode as the rumpled detective Carl Morck, Dept Q is stuffed with twists, red herrings and complex characters you will want to root for, making it the perfect weekend binge-watch. The new nine-part show finds Morck reeling from a botched murder investigation that left his partner paralysed and another police officer dead. The first episode sees his boss decide the answer is to squirrel him away in a basement department, rooting through cold case files. He teams up with Syrian refugee and former police officer Akram Salim (Alexej Manvelov), who picks their first case: the disappearance of an ambitious young prosecutor Merritt Linguard (Chloe Pirrie) on a ferry trip four years ago. Writer and director Scott Frank hoped to replicate the success he found on Netflix with The Queen's Gambit and has been sitting on the rights to Jussi Adler-Olsen's source Scandi-noir novels for over a decade. Wake up to find news on your TV shows in your inbox every morning with Metro's TV Newsletter. Sign up to our newsletter and then select your show in the link we'll send you so we can get TV news tailored to you. Frank said he was inspired by his love of crime dramas like Line of Duty to use the long-untouched rights after owning them for 15 years. He admitted to Metro: 'The books, you just knew that they could work that way. It took me a while to get to them.' To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video He added: 'I thought this particular mystery and the situation and context for it was so interesting. I hadn't seen that before. 'But also the potential for these characters. I think they're all really interesting and you could take them in so many different directions and go so far with them. 'It just felt like this was a natural series. I hadn't really made anything like this before and so it seemed like a really, really fun idea.' It's certainly gone down well with Netflix viewers, who have taken to X to urge others to give the new show a go. Senior TV Reporter Rebecca Cook shares her take on Netflix's show… Setting a dusty cold case file in front of a crack team of sleuths is definitely not reinventing the TV wheel. Making the detective in charge of said team the most disliked man in the police precinct is also nothing new. But Dept Q is further proof that when it comes to bad-tempered, trauma-laden crime shows, the limit does not exist. This one benefits from a violently unhinged baddie, who it's impossible to look away from him. The Slow Horses comparison is apt. They're dud spies, these are dud coppers. Unfortunately, Dept Q doesn't quite reach the levels of The Thick of It comedy found in Slough House, but the Department Q gang are a good hang nevertheless. @Mon3yStretch wrote: 'I gotta say, when it comes to detective shows, the British are cream of the crop. This new show on Netflix called Dept Q is pure greatness,' as @emhoy chimed in: 'Just watched first episode and it's fantastic Dept Q.' More Trending Perhaps given that Morck and his crew are down-and-outers in the precinct, one viewer compared it to Slow Horses on Apple TV Plus. @conorgeorge95 wrote: 'Now this is a series Netflix needs to stick with, I see why it's getting the Slow Horses of Netflix comparison, also the casting/acting is outstanding. Do not let this go to waste. #DeptQ' @RhianReads1 tweeted: 'Dept Q is so good I'm considering buying and reading the book before I continue.' @chrisgbradford added: 'Have just binge watched Dept Q on Netflix. Absolutely brilliant. The production, writing, and the cast all superb. Season 2 please!' View More » Dept Q is available to stream on Netflix. Got a story? If you've got a celebrity story, video or pictures get in touch with the entertainment team by emailing us celebtips@ calling 020 3615 2145 or by visiting our Submit Stuff page – we'd love to hear from you. MORE: Netflix horror sequel soars to number 1 after viewers stay up to watch MORE: Netflix fans rave over 'perfect cast' as The Thursday Murder Club trailer drops MORE: Amazon Prime fans can now binge all 8 episodes of 'juicy' thriller
Metro
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Metro
'Line of Duty was on my mind when creating Netflix's latest thriller'
Netflix has a new mystery waiting to unfurl on your screens today, which will be perfect for those hankering after a slice of Line of Duty. Scott Frank, the writer and director behind Netflix's runaway chess hit The Queen's Gambit (an unlikely combination of words), is back on the streamer with the twisty crime thriller Dept Q. The new nine-part show dives in at the deep end with a shooting in the first scene that leaves one copper dead, our protagonist detective Carl Morck (Matthew Goode) traumatised and his partner paralysed. Speaking to Metro, Frank explained how certain British TV thrillers played a huge part in his inspiration for the show, which has dropped all nine of its episodes to binge in one go today. Following the events of the opening scene, Morck is still adjusting to his new normal months later, when his superior exiles him to a newly established department – the name's in the title – down in the basement. Wake up to find news on your TV shows in your inbox every morning with Metro's TV Newsletter. Sign up to our newsletter and then select your show in the link we'll send you so we can get TV news tailored to you. He's joined by a couple of fellow police misfits and tasked with cracking a long-unsolved cold case. To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Based on a series of Scandi-noir novels by Jussi Adler-Olsen, the show's creator Frank, 65, said he'd been sitting on the book rights and waiting to make the show for 15 years. It was his love of crime dramas, 'especially' the British variety, that he said finally got him doing something outside his wheelhouse with this show. He told Metro: 'I just love these kinds of shows myself anyway. They're my guilty pleasure, not even guilty, my pleasure to watch. 'I hadn't really made anything like this before, and so it seemed like a really, really fun idea.' When asked which crime dramas he had in mind when making the show, Frank had a laundry list: Broadchurch, Happy Valley, Prime Suspect, Cracker, as well as Line of Duty. 'I love Line of Duty, just because of the way it moves and the way it keeps turning,' Frank said. 'You have these 20-minute interrogation scenes that are like plays. I just love that.' Frank hopes that viewers tuning in to Dept Q take away 'a full meal' from the show. He said: 'I hope they have a good time and they get lost in it the way I like to get lost in these shows where you're pulled along and second guessing, but the character reveals are so satisfying.' He only has one small plea to TV viewers: don't watch the show on your phone. 'I don't know how they do it,' he said. 'I feel terrible for the filmmakers, because they're watching Outlander on their cell phone. 'Even my own wife sometimes will be watching, and she'll look down to do something, and then she'll look up and she'll have missed a key plot point. 'I don't know how to control that. I only know how to write a good story and then just hope that enough people realise that it's one they should probably lean in for.' And if he does happen to see you watching Dept Q on the tube? 'I would be both mortified and resigned at the same time,' he laughs. Matthew Goode, 47, told Metro he didn't think Frank would choose him for the role of Morck, but Frank said he wrote the scripts with Goode specifically in mind. More Trending Goode said: 'I was thinking he can pretty have whoever he wants. Why question him? He's one of the most intelligent men around. So he came back and he said, 'I think I'd really like you to do it'. 'It's just such brilliant, nuanced characters. It's dark, it's hilarious. And that's something you don't necessarily always see within this genre. I just wanted more scripts. I wanted to know where it was going. 'So I felt very, very, very lucky and delighted, because it's the second time that Scott has given me a role that I don't think many other directors would necessarily have thought of me for.' View More » Dept Q is available to stream on Netflix. Got a story? If you've got a celebrity story, video or pictures get in touch with the entertainment team by emailing us celebtips@ calling 020 3615 2145 or by visiting our Submit Stuff page – we'd love to hear from you. MORE: Netflix horror sequel soars to number 1 after viewers stay up to watch MORE: Netflix fans rave over 'perfect cast' as The Thursday Murder Club trailer drops MORE: WWE champion Lyra Valkyria reveals star's horror injury was 'worst she's ever seen'
Time of India
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Dept Q is now streaming on Netflix: Here's why Matthew Goode, Kelly MacDonald-starrer is already the best crime drama of the year
The crime thriller streets are talking, and the buzzword is Dept Q. Netflix just unleashed this grimy British detective series, and let us tell you, fans are eating it up like cold pizza after a night out. Dept Q plot Starring the ever-dashing Matthew Goode as brooding detective Carl Morck, Dept Q is not your average crime procedural. There is trauma, guilt, a cold case that refuses to stay buried, and enough emotional damage to make your therapist cry. Based on Jussi Adler-Olsen's best-selling novel, the series has been adapted for the screen by The Queen's Gambit creator Scott Frank, so expect moody lighting, razor-sharp writing, and psychological warfare dressed in tweed. Morck is not in his detective prime anymore. Haunted by a tragic case that left his partner paralysed, he is now stuck working cold cases that no one wants to touch — until one of them starts biting back. Enter Dr Rachel Irving (played by the always-compelling Kelly MaCdonald), who attempts to navigate his PTSD-infested brain, and a web of characters including a stone-cold prosecutor, a Syrian cop, a cadet with backbone, and enough drama to fuel your next group chat. Dept Q reviews: Fans say this might be the best detective show of the year Now here is the real kicker: fans are loving it. Social media has exploded with reactions — one viewer called it 'the absolute best thing on Netflix right now,' praising its realistic tone and emotional depth. Others are comparing it to Slow Horses, with some claiming it could even surpass Apple's espionage hit if Netflix keeps up the momentum. I only watched one episode of #DepartmentQ before release but I really like it so far. Matthew Goode is always great and it's so nice to see him get a lead role he can sink his teeth into. If they stick the landing, this could easily be one of the best detective shows of the year A intelligent must-read about Netflix Dept. Q, Scott Frank's masterpiece adaptation & Matthew Goode's electtifying performance"This isn't procedural comfort food; it's a nine-episode descent into institutional hell that makes you question everything." @netflix Department Q is cinematically beautiful. The script is scrumptious and the performances delightful. More, please. If you were a fan of Matthew Goode before, wait until you meet DCI Carl Morck. Our #DeptQ review: Netflix's #DepartmentQ is an engaging crime thriller that will keep you glued to the screen. Plus, Matthew Goode! Our review: Critics are jumping on the hype train too. The show currently holds a 75% rating on Rotten Tomatoes — not bad considering critics only got a sneak peek at five of the nine episodes. A review from Rolling Stone even wondered whether Netflix would be able to roll out future seasons as smoothly as Apple has managed with its detective dramas. REVIEW: Like 'Slow Horses'? Then you'll love 'Dept. Q' the new Netflix show about a unit of misfit cops cracking cold cases in Scotland. More: As I mentioned earlier if you wanna watch something truly fantastic watch Dept Q on Netflix . Shaping up to be one of the best series they have delivered in ages and very true to it's Scandi noir roots . It's a belter 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Night 👋 So yes, if you are craving suspense, smart storytelling, and a lead character with enough emotional baggage to rival a Ryanair flight, Dept Q is your next binge. It just hit Netflix on 29 May. Watch it now, or be stuck dodging spoilers and memes for the next month.
