First Look At Scott Frank’s ‘Dept. Q’ Coming May 29
Apr 21, 2025
Writer/director Scott Frank is back at Netflix after delivering shows like the Western thriller “Godless” and Anya Taylor-Joy‘s chess prodigy drama “The Queen’s Gambit.” His latest show is “Dept. Q” starring Matthew Goode, and the streaming service was nice enough to send us some first-look images from the show, along with the grand announcement that it will make its debut exclusively on May 29.
Frank, one of the show’s executive producers, both wrote and directed the nine-episode run of “Dept. Q,” which focuses on a group of Scottish police officers in a newly formed cold case department in the wake of a tragedy, referred to as Department Q.
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The supporting cast in the nine-episode run features the likes of Chloe Pirrie (“Under The Banner of Heaven,” “The Queen’s Gambit”), Alexej Manvelov (“Jack Ryan”), Kelly Macdonald (“Line of Duty,” “Boardwalk Empire”), Kate Dickie (“Game of Thrones”), and Leah Byrne (“Call The Midwife”).
The show’s official synopsis, courtesy of Netflix:
DCI Carl Morck is a brilliant cop but a terrible colleague. His razor-sharp sarcasm has made him no friends in the Edinburgh police. After a shooting that leaves a young PC dead, and his partner paralysed, he finds himself exiled to the basement and the sole member of Department Q; a newly formed cold case unit. The department is a PR stunt, there to distract the public from the failures of an under-resourced, failing police force that is glad to see the back of him. But more by accident than design, Carl starts to build a gang of waifs and strays who have everything to prove. So, when the stone-cold trail of a prominent civil servant who disappeared several years ago starts to heat up, Carl is back doing what he does best – rattling cages and refusing to take no for an answer.
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Of course, the crime genre has been extremely popular on Netflix, as they’re coming off the massive success of “Adolescence,” and we’ll see how audiences react to this latest project from Frank.
You can take a look at those first-look stills for “Dept. Q” below, and it likely won’t be too much longer before Netflix drops a trailer for the Scotland-set crime series.
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