Really good acting, interesting characters, twisty story. It tracked fairly closely with the book it was based on, The Keeper of Lost Causes, by the Danish author Jussi Adler-Olsen. The blurb for the book describes the series plot pretty well:
Carl Mørck used to be one of Copenhagen’s best homicide detectives. Then a hail of bullets destroyed the lives of two fellow cops, and Carl—who didn’t draw his weapon—blames himself. So a promotion is the last thing he expects. But Department Q is a department of one, and Carl’s got only a stack of Copenhagen’s coldest cases for company. His colleagues snicker, but Carl may have the last laugh, because one file keeps nagging at him: a liberal politician vanished five years earlier and is presumed dead.
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Except that the series is set in Edinburgh, Scotland, not Copenhagen. Turn on your closed caption because the Scottish accents are pretty thick, except for Carl's because he's English.
There is a whole series of books about Department Q, and they are very good if you like Scandinavian
noir. Interestingly,
mørk is Danish for "dark," which is a good adjective for the series and especially the books. Some some Danish TV versions of a few of the books came out 10 years ago or so, and they're also quite good (and dark).
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