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Matthew Goode leads Dept. Q in trailer for Netflix’s new detective series

May 6, 2025 by Amie Cranswick

Netflix has shared a poster and trailer for Dept. Q, the British crime thriller series from The Queen’s Gambit writer/director Scott Frank.

Based on Jussi Adler-Olsen’s Nordic noir Department Q book series, it follows DCI Carl Morck (Matthew Goode), a brash but brilliant police officer who is tasked with leading a new department and unlikely team of misfits as they attempt to solve Edinburgh’s cold cases. Check out the trailer below…

DCI Carl Morck is a brilliant cop but a terrible colleague. His razor-sharp sarcasm has made him no friends in 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 Dept. 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. 

Dept. Q arrives on Netflix on May 29th.

 

Filed Under: Amie Cranswick, News, Television, Top Stories, Trailers Tagged With: Dept. Q, Jussi Adler-Olsen, Matthew Goode, netflix

About Amie Cranswick

Amie Cranswick has been part of Flickering Myth's editorial team for over a decade. She has a background in publishing and copyediting and has served as Executive Editor of FlickeringMyth.com since 2020.

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