- Network: Netflix
- Series Premiere Date: May 29, 2025
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Dept. Q will likely grip fans of whodunit fare well enough, but with some crucial tweaks, it's not hard to imagine it becoming a better show if further seasons are to follow.
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For now, we have to work with what we've got, and at this point in time Dept Q feels like a work in progress - not unlike its protagonist, it's a mess with real promise beneath it all, a diamond waiting to be cut and polished.
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It is, in short, a lazy assembly of tropes that have worked better elsewhere. And yet, despite all that, I found myself gripped. This first series unfurls over the course of nine hour-long episodes, giving it plenty of time to grow on you.
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Goode’s performance, while proficient, feels a little dull. He’s fine, but “Dept. Q” might have been more interesting with someone genuinely scruffier in the role.
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The more authentic the rest of Dept. Q comes to feel, the more ludicrous and rudimentary the central “mystery” appears.
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Dept. Q has that stronger, network-style hook right off the bat, but its sense of gritty prestige never overpowers the feeling that this is a page-turner sometimes turning its pages at half speed. It’s not quite up to Frank’s usual level.
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I’m not familiar enough with the source material or the film adaptation to say for sure where this story has been padded, but it simply hasn’t been done so in an interesting enough manner to justify nine hours of television.
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It’s very, very grim. .... Beyond that, the show struggles with its angle on Morck. .... If the show could just turn down the dial on its protagonist grimly shouting at people, this motley crew might actually cohere into a crack squad of crime solvers.
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