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Netflix’s ‘Dept. Q’ Is an Emotionally Fraught Crime Thriller That Never Lets Up: TV Review
In Netflix's newest British crime thriller from creator of "The Queen's Gambit," Matthew Goode plays detective determined to solve a cold case.
It takes a particular type of tenacious human being to doggedly pursue clues long after things have stalled, and Netflix ‘s latest crime thriller, “Dept Q,” based on the book series by Jussi Adler-Olsen and adapted for television by “The Queen’s Gambit” creator Scott Frank, revolves around a brilliant but vexing detective. Tired of his brash attitude and terrible bedside manner, his boss Detective Chief Superintendent Moira Jacobson (Katie Dickie), exiles him to the basement, making him the sole member of a newly formed government task force, Department Q. While Merritt is determined to act as a lone wolf, Carl unwittingly teams up with Akram Salim (Alexej Manvelov), a Syrian immigrant who works in the precinct’s IT department and has secrets of his own, and Detective Constable Rose Dickson (Leah Byrne), a young cadet who had been previously sidelined.
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