Netflix release first look at new drama ‘Dept Q’

Netflix has released a first look at new drama ‘Dept Q’, which comes from the creator of ‘The Queen’s Gambit’.

Netflix say: “Dept. Q is an adaptation of the novels of the same name by Danish author Jussi Adler-Olsen. The series revolves around Carl Morck, a former top-rated detective in Edinburgh assigned to a new cold case whilst wracked with guilt following an attack that left his partner paralyzed and another police officer dead”.

The new series stars Matthew Goode (‘Downton Abbey’) and is created by writer/director Scott Frank.

“I’ve been working with him since 2006,” Frank tells Tudum. “Matthew just felt like this guy. I was writing with him in mind. I knew that he could do this and that he would lend this undeniable intelligence with his flintiness, but that he could also be emotional without being sentimental.” 

“This is the second time that he’s given me a role I don’t think anybody else would’ve cast me in,” Goode tells Tudum. “In The Lookout [Frank’s 2007 directorial debut], it was a Kansas criminal bank robber, which I don’t really scream. And in this, again, I wouldn’t have necessarily seen that in myself to play this kind of role.”

Dept. Q is a procedural mystery, but above all, it’s about a group of unlikely colleagues bouncing off of one another. “If you watch a show like Cheers, you’re not watching it because you’re interested in a bar in Boston,” Frank says. “It’s not the situation that makes you watch it, or the comedy. It’s these people.” 

The series was filmed in Edinburgh and debuts May 29, 2025.