Matthew Goode is ready to rattle some cages in the official trailer for Dept. Q. In less than one month, Netflix will debut the fresh detective serie
Matthew Goode is ready to rattle some cages in the official trailer for Dept. Q. In less than one month, Netflix will debut the fresh detective series from The Queen’s Gambit creator Scott Frank that features the A Discovery of Witches star as DCI Carl Morck, who’s described as “a brilliant cop, but a terrible colleague” with no allies in the Edinburgh police and a lot of guilt on his conscience. A shooting that killed a adolescent officer and paralyzed his partner leaves him feeling responsible, and matters only get worse when his bosses “promote” him to the head of a fresh department dedicated to icy cases. However, the fresh basement office is just a PR front to distract an unsatisfied public from their failures. Yet, the footage sees him rising to the occasion and finding fresh energy with a fresh team of misfits, making real strides on a long-unsolved case.
The trailer opens with Morck confronting his worst moments as he’s asked about witnessing his partner and best friend being shot before he’s given his fresh role with the police. Although he gets a large ceremonial press conference, the department he inhabits is dinky, under-furnished, and under-staffed. He understands the assignment — stay out of everyone’s way — but he starts gaining some attention when he reopens the Lingard case, an unsolved disappearance of a prominent civil servant. Burdened with an over-eager fresh assistant and slowly gathering together other strays from the department, whether by accident or on purpose, he gets back to what he does best and starts getting gritty to get answers. Though his partner’s injury still haunts him, he has a newfound confidence that carries him on the re-ignited search for the missing person, even forcing him to investigate the police themselves.
Dept. Q marks Goode’s return to television after his roles in A Discovery of Witches and the narrow series The Offer wrapped up in 2022. It’ll serve as a long-overdue reunion for him and Frank after the star appeared in his directorial debut heist thriller The Lookout back in 2007. This time around, Goode tops a callsheet including Chloe Pirrie, Alexej Manvelov, Kelly Macdonald, Kate Dickie, Leah Byrne, Mark Bonnar, Tom Bulpett, and Jamie Sives that he’s called “one of the finest casts I’ve ever gotten to work with. It’s just an incredible playpen for an actor.”
‘Dept. Q’ Is Aiming to Be Netflix’s Next Big Novel Adaptation
As both writer and director of the fresh mystery series, Frank adapted the Department Q novels from Jussi Adler-Olsen. If the show gets a long run at Netflix, there are ten books following the exploits of DCI Morck and his allies to pull from. Dept. Q adds to a long list of mystery novels coming to life at the streaming service, including this year’s hotly-anticipated feature The Thursday Murder Club, a fresh adaptation of Agatha Christie‘s The Seven Dials Mystery and a trio of Harlan Coben series including Missing You, Just One Look, and the upcoming I Will Find You with Sam Worthington. Adler-Olsen had a lot of faith in Frank adapting his work, as the creator told Tudum about his long-held plans to make the series stemming back to A Walk Among the Tombstones, recalling, “He said, ‘I trust you’ and that he’d always hoped I would end up writing and directing it.”
Dept. Q premieres on Netflix on May 29. Check out the trailer in the player above and the official poster below.
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