Matthew Goode is both good and bad cop in Netflix's 'Dept. Q'

Netflix's 'Dept Q,' 'And Just Like That' season 3, and Lifetime's 'The 13th Wife' top EW's Must List

Indie artist Kaleb Cohen and a "Killer" Criterion release round out our picks for the weekend of May 30.Sarah Jessica Parker on 'And Just Like That'; Matthew Goode on 'Dept. Q'; Felicity Huffman in 'The 13th Wife'There's plenty of great TV right now (including the recent finales of Hacks, The Last of Us, and The Studio), but my favorite thing to watch currently is Zoe Saldaña squeal in joyous surprise in her new T-Mobile ad. I laugh in delight e…

Matthew Goode Talks Becoming Netflix’s New Leading Man in ‘Dept. Q’ — And Why He Won’t Be in ‘Downton Abbey 3’

The English actor stars as DCI Carl Morck in Scott Frank's follow-up to 'The Queen's Gambit,' loosely adapted from Jussi Adler-Olson's Nordic crime noir novels.

This Netflix-Krimi does something wild: in nine episodes he simply describes a case. Especially because of his old-fashioned approaches, "Dept. Q" is worth seeing.

Matthew Goode Isn’t a Hostile Jerk—He Just Plays One on ‘Dept. Q’

The good-natured Brit opens up about his absorbing Netflix crime drama and the starring role he got with an assist: “He had to go to bat for me because I’m not, you know, Tom Hardy or Zendaya.”

Matthew Goode is both good and bad cop in Netflix's 'Dept. Q'

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Dept Q leaves you as cold as its case

From the moment we meet Matthew Goode as Detective Carl Morck in Dept Q, it's clear what we’re in for. Goode, his impossibly handsome self unconvincingly hidden behind a slightly unmanaged salt and pepper beard and loose clothes, is a protagonist in the Dr. House (of House fame) model. One might expect House’s inspiration, Sherlock Holmes, would be the better comparison. However, while Morck is a crime solver, his reflexive disdain for others is…