But Dept Q, Netflix’s latest addition to the canon, has hardly any of that sparkle (though it is written by Scott Frank, the Oscar-nominated screenwriter behind The Queen’s Gambit). A cold case missing persons investigation, set in the dingy basement of an Edinburgh police station and lead by a miserable, troubled lead detective? Heard it all before… yet, it remains one of the best crime dramas the streamer has ever produced – not that its slew of cheesy Harlan Coben adaptations provides much competition.
Chloe Pirrie as Merritt Lingard (Photo: Netflix)
Months later, Morck is back at work, and in mandatory therapy, where he reluctantly works through the guilt he feels over escaping the shooting relatively unscathed.
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Dept Q is adapted from the series of crime novels by Danish author Jussi Adler-Olsen, and that quintessential Scandi noir darkness comes through in Morck’s first case. Prosecutor Merritt Lingard (Chloe Pirrie) went missing four years previously, thought to have fallen off a ferry and drowned after arguing with her brother. We, however, know that this is false – she’s being held in a sort of pressurised tube called a “hyperbaric chamber” by two creepy unknown torturers.
Alexej Manvelov as Akram (Photo: Justin Downing/Netflix)As is usually the case with Netflix series, Dept Q runs for twice as long as the story can sustain, and over the nine episodes there are a handful of superfluous storylines introduced. I don’t really care about Morck’s unhappy relationship with his son, nor the suggestions of corruption in the police force (there are more than enough crime dramas concerned with that problem thanks to Line of Duty).
‘Dept Q’ is streaming on Netflix
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