Pick of the week
Dept. Q
“Do you ever wonder why people hate you?” Carl Morck (Matthew Goode) never seems unduly concerned about this question. Carl is a rogue cop: brilliant on his day but relentlessly abrasive and traumatised by a shooting. His bosses don’t know what to do with him, so they bury him in a back office with a couple of other misfits and dump a huge file of cold cases on his desk. It’s difficult not to think of Slow Horses, but Dept Q struggles to hit similar heights. The characters lack comparable depth and the dialogue never quite stings or soars. However, as Morck reopens the case of a missing prosecutor, his relationship with lackey turned saving grace Akram (Alexej Manvelov) adds levity. Phil Harrison
Netflix, from Thursday 29 May
