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Made a little something something.....

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So I'm rewatching Dept Q. And I'm on ep.8 when Carl crashes Rachel's date to discuss his dreams, only to have the date show up and I just realized.....the date looks just like Carl!

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@tobitoooo CHECK HIM OUT IN A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES, LEAP YEAR, AND CHASING LIBERTY TOO!

MATTHEW GOODE FROM DEPT Q IS THE HOT MAN FROM STOKER AND IMITATION GAME?????

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Matthew Goode you insane motherfucker. I need 5 more seasons with this grumpy lad STAT

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Successful book haul today! Gonna get boned up on Dept Q, A Discovery of Witches, and Forth Wing. Which I've heard so much about.

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Carl ❤️ Rachel.

(Well, he pings her phone so he can tell her about his dreams… and that’s pretty much the same thing.)

Having their Pride and Prejudice moment with a PS filter 🤣

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If someone knows how to stop thinking about Carl Morck, please let me know.

Drawn in Procreate using Chromagraph brushes from TrueTextureGritSupply and the reference was a screenshot from Netflix’s Dept Q, edited by the wonderful @pleasereadmeok

Also added a bit more to ‘I should go’ on AO3. It was meant to be a one shot but hey.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/66073609/chapters/171182581#workskin

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This series is what gave me the kick in the ass I needed to go for my Master's. In Fall, I start Master's in History of Medicine through Johns Hopkins. I'd like to go for a professorship eventually, and/or PhD out of Oxford.

THIS IS NOT A DRILL

"A Discovery of Witches" is now available to stream on Netflix (geolocation specific)!

It's one of my all-time favorite book-to-series ("All Souls Trilogy" by Deborah Harkness) productions - obvi co-starring Alex Kingston, as a witchy, sassy (hello, sweetie!), LGBT Auntie - and the entire series is just perfect?! Time travel, witches, vampires, werewolves, unrequited love, broken hearts, baddies, fab CGI, beautiful cast, great story...what more could you ask for?

CAST (some Doctor Who vets): Matthew Goode, Teresa Palmer, Alex Kingston, Lindsay Duncan (😍), Sophia Myles, Louise Brealey, James Purefoy (😍), Tom Hughes, Valerie Pettiford, Alysha Heart, Trevor Eve, Owen Teale, Paul Rhys...and on and on!

The first season was released in 2018 but there are 3 seasons altogether and it's absolutely worth the watch.

I'm on my fifth watch 🤓 since its initial release. So good!

Share your thoughts on the series by replying to this post, if you've watched/will watch the series.

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So glad to hear it's book accurate. I haven't read thr books yet but that makes me so excited.

Just wrapped #DeptQ on Netflix and… yeah, I’m thrilled, this season is hot. Scottish noir + book-accurate adaptation + killer chemistry = a win. #CrimeTV #StreamingRec #NordicNoirVibes #MatthewGoode #AlexejManvelov Check out my spoiler-free #seasonreview if you’re crime thriller obsessed:

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Yes I’m spamming Dept. Q, no I won’t stop, it a good show and others should watch it, I don’t want Netflix to kill it.

95% of the characters are assholes and it’s fantastic

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I'm a recent fan, only since ADOW got on Netflix and changed my life.

By the way, Kelly MacDonald is 12 and Alexej Manvelov is 37. The whole cast is getting notice.

This is SO weird for a long time Goode fans like me... Matthew Goode is still No. 1 on the IMDb Starmeter. Suddenly I don't have to explain to people who he is. It's SURREAL! Doing a happy dance 💃🏼

I've only been a fan since Leap Year but there are people on here who have been fans since Chasing Liberty (2004!!!!) - so it must be even freakier for them.

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I'll be honest, he's part of the reason I have a thing for tall guys and there's not enough tall guys in the world. Plus none would have me.

can’t decide if I think the dept q guy is fit or not

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DEPT Q (2025) | 1.01-1.09

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Dept Q: A Love Note to the Murder Squad

New interview with Matthew Goode.

sm: Would you make a good detective?

mg: My wife is very good at losing her glasses, and I can just about find those, but it’s always a bit of a hunt, and I can never find the car keys. So, together, we’re both useless. I’ve got a friend who worked in the murder squad for real, and it’s pretty harrowing what they go through. That’s always why I’m hoping that this show becomes a series, because there are like ten books, and it can’t help but be a kind of love note to those real people.

Great read! Link below

📷 David Reiss Photography

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Rachel: Carl Morck? Carl: Dr Sonnenberg. Rachel: I'm Dr Irving. Dr Sonnenberg broke her hip, so I'm filling in. Carl: … Rachel: Pick one.

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Dept. Q

Dept. Q, the new Netflix crime series that crawled into my basement office, knocked over my trauma binder, and whispered,

“he’s not healing, he’s compartmentalizing.”

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So picture this: Matthew Goode, a man of mystery and cheekbones honed like a Doric column, stars as DCI Carl Mørck, an emotionally repressed detective exiled to a damp Edinburgh storage closet for having the audacity to feel guilt. He’s been shot, his partner’s paralyzed, and he’s one passive-aggressive eye twitch away from exploding into a cloud of sarcasm and unresolved grief. In short: my favorite genre of man.

He gets dumped into Department Q, aka “cold case hell,” aka the bureaucratic oubliette where dreams go to die. Enter:

🌀 Akram Salim, the Syrian ex-cop with the quiet competence of a haunted falcon

🌀 Rose, a Gen-Z goth admin who’s either 10 seconds from quitting or founding a cult

🌀 Rachel, his therapist, who is VERY tired of his deflection tactics

🌀 Jamie Sives in a wheelchair giving the performance of a lifetime from a living room

AND THE VIBE???

It’s bleak. It’s beautiful. It’s marinated in saltwater trauma and the distant cry of seagulls judging your life choices. Edinburgh doesn’t just rain, it broods. Every alley looks like a Victorian ghost crime happened there. The show is soaked in political rot, vanished women, metaphor-heavy grief, and enough emotional repression to power the National Grid. The lighting? Bisexual. The mood? Scandinavian noir but dragged through Scottish Calvinism and left to simmer in a Tupperware of guilt.

The writing? Sharp enough to leave a scar.

The pacing? Deliciously slow and unsettling like it’s daring you to pay attention.

The cases? Grim as hell and coiled like barbed wire. The dialogue? Absolutely feral, half cryptic muttering, half emotional shrapnel. And the acting?? So devastatingly precise I had to keep pausing just to *recover* from a single eyebrow twitch or a haunted inhale.

And Matthew Goode?? I did not expect this man to hit me with “dismantled ex-detective who keeps a metaphorical graveyard in his chest cavity” energy but HERE WE ARE. He’s not just sad. He’s SAD in a way that screams “I don’t deserve closure.” And the show lets him sit in it.

Akram, meanwhile, is the only adult in the room and barely holding it together. Their partnership? Full of tension and cautious loyalty and so many unspoken feelings that I’m going to need the two of them to go out for emotionally repressed pints and maybe a rooftop shouting match.

Some critics are like “Hmm the pacing is slow” and I’m like GOOD. LET ME MARINATE IN THIS MAN’S BURNING GUILT. I want my mysteries with trauma and unresolved father issues. I want “redemption is a myth and closure is earned.” I want the visual metaphor of a man dragging boxes of dead girls up the stairs.

💀 Verdict: 9/10 emotionally stunted detectives in a trench coat.

🖤 Watch it if: you like Broadchurch, Mindhunter, Dark Academia detective edition, or yelling “OH YOU POOR THING” at your screen.

🚬 Watch it if: you believe in the healing power of trauma bonding, old case files, and emotional repression.

GO WATCH IT. Just don’t expect to come out emotionally unscathed. fuel my coffee addiction here : https://ko-fi.com/zarainink

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DEPT Q (2025) | 1.02

-Akram's face says it all