The second most popular TV show on Netflix Worldwide comes right out of Scotland, and it’s racked up rave reviews, making it one of the best Netflix shows. Department Sp deserves each of the five stars it gets because it is an absolute explosion.
Department Sp So far has spent two weeks in Netflix Top Ten for Global TV, with 8.9 million views and 73,400,000 hours – so almost anyone who starts watching it is watching it.
Based on that, the show is just another cop. You know the type: Maverick Cop is fighting demons, a woman in danger in the hands of a creepy figure. But it is much more than that, which is why I pretty much inhaled each episode.
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The show is based on Jussi Adler-Olsen’s Danish detective stories, but the action has been moved to Edinburgh in Scotland. Matthew Goode plays detective Carl Morck, and it is clear that the man is an indelible ass that is rightly abhorred by many of his colleagues, even after he survives a murderous event. This event has terrible consequences for his friend and partner, played by the ever -brilliant Jamie Sives, and it is clear that Monck is increasingly blamed for it.
Monck gets the job of investigating cold cases and getting a team of colleagues misfits: former Syrian police officer Akram Salim (Alexjev Manvelov), a lovely man with many secrets and the well -meaning but traumatized cadetrosis (Leah Byrne). Together they focus on a single case: the disappearance of lawyer Merritt Linguard (Chloe Pirie).
The following is an extremely tense race against time to find and save Merritt, interwoven with the interpersonal dramas from Monck, his team and his homemade. It’s often a lot of fun, especially in home bits, and the manuscript is whipped and razor -sharp everywhere. And the role crew is brilliant with fine performances everywhere and the very welcome performances by Mark Bonnar, Kelly Macdonald and Sanjeev Kholi.
Without giving any spoilers, I need to warn you that the central disappearance a lot on the edge of voyeurism: I am not a big fan of seeing women (or anyone else) undergoing terrible treatment, and I think in a few cases that the camera was lingering a little too long on things in much the way IDRIS Elba shows Luther Sometimes it did. But maybe I’m just slightly sorry.
If you like me are a Scottish, there is also fun to be who had nitpicking: Why does everyone in Edinburgh have a Glasgow -ACCENT? Don’t they know that pub is not near that bit of the city? Should Mark Bonnar and Jamie Sives appear in everything (not that I complain)? And it’s interesting to compare what you can do with a Netflix budget compared to the much more modest means of Scotland’s own TV companies: I am often excited about the arrival of a new homework drama only to be deeply disappointed. While I loved this.
Department Sp currently has 84% on the rotten tomatoes from critics and 94% from viewers. It is available to stream on Netflix now.
