Netflix's latest police procedural is a love letter to hardboiled noir and classic British TV crime drama, says showrunner Scott Frank.
The Hollywood scriptwriter behind Minority Report, Get Shorty, Logan and The Queen’s Gambit says his happy place is British TV crime drama – and now he has created such a show of his own. New Netflix series Dept. Q is as rain-sodden, dour and shot through with grim humour as UK audiences expect of their detective mysteries...
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