Dept. Q | Official Trailer | Netflix
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Another squad of misfits set up to look into old cases, much like Graveyard, except this one is in set in Scotland, not Turkey. Funny how both groups get office space in a creepy old basement, full of old stuff that no one cares about.
The show gets off to a horrific start when our hero, Morck, and his partner visit a crime scene and are ambushed by a gunman, who kills the patrolman, and seriously wounds Morck and his partner before escaping. Morck hates everybody in the cop shop and everybody hates him, he's basically an asshole.
Meanwhile, in the courtroom, Moira, the prosecutor, is trying to convict Graham Finch of killing his wife by pushing her down the stairs. Except it wasn't meanwhile, it was four years ago. Moira disappeared shortly thereafter.
Merritt Lingard is the boss of the cop shop. I was confused at first because I thought Moira and Merritt were the same person. I thought they looked alike, my wife doesn't understand how I could not tell them apart.
Akram is the first person to join Morck's team. He is devout Muslim would used to do police work in Syria, whatever that means. Like all good immigrants he is willing to do all the scut work without complaining.
The missing Moira becomes the first cold case for our brand new Department Q to investigate.
The show has the usual Netflix complement of folks from the fringes: guy with mental problems, smart gal stifled in tedious administrative busy work, brown immigrant who works hard, a cripple, and I'm pretty sure there are several gays. None of that matters because the main story is intriguing. They keep giving the audience clues. How the devil is this group of misfit toys going to figure this out?
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| Edinburgh International Climbing Arena. Edinburgh, Scotland |
There are a couple of unusual sets. One is large rock climbing gym.
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| Hyperbaric Diving Chamber Interior |
The other is a diving chamber like the ones used by deep sea divers working for extended periods deep underwater.
2 comments:
My wife and I enjoyed it. I immediately thought of New Tricks, supervisor who screws up, then is placed in charge of cold cases with a bunch of misfits.
Well acted, well written. I was genuinely surprised several times. That's rare. Leans into Diversity a bit much, but men and women are equally represented among the villains and heroes. Even the obligatory Migrant from Syria won me over. Interesting character in his own right. The ditzy lady detective was a bit blah, but overall the best thing I've seen on Netflix in years.
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