Dept. Q–”Slow Horses” Wannabe?
Written and directed by American Scott Frank (of “Queen’s Gambit”), the Netflix series Dept Q in nine episodes is based on Danish author Jussi Adler-Olsen’s crime thriller The Keeper of Lost Causes.
Filmed in Edinburgh, Dept. Q opens with a terrifying misfiring (literally) of a crime scene gone wrong. Detective Morck (Matthew Goode of “Downton Abbey” and “The Crown”) and two of his colleagues are trapped by a masked murderer and left for dead.
Morck is carrying the burden of this tragic incident, unable to openly discuss what happened on the job. ...