Currently streaming on NetFlix as DEPT. Q, the Scots-set/English-language redo of this series has a glamorously distressed Matthew Goode leading a motley squad thru Cold Case files; this is the second of the four Danish films it came out of. (First one covered here: https://maksquibs.blogspot.com/2025/03/department-q-keeper-of-lost-causes.html.) Mikkel Nørgaard again directs Nikolaj Lie Kaas as the intense, self-destructive lead detective and Fares Fares is his relatively cool-headed second second. This case pulls up a twenty year old double murder involving a cover-up by rich & powerful types, a posh private school for the entitled where everyone met & mingled, sexual blackmail, a fallen woman with secrets to hide (if she can just stay alive), and of course that school days double murder. A nasty piece of business compared to the first case, but effective in its darker manner. It does lay things on pretty thick; the bad guys don’t exactly kick a dog, but they do bring a zebra to their sporting club for the annual hunt. Not seen here, but apparently 3 and 4 are stronger entries in the series. Still, this will do in a pinch.
DOUBLE-BILL: Elsewhere on the internet, this time from Sweden, DET SOM GÖMS I SNÖ / THE TRUTH WILL OUT/’18; ‘21 might be another version of the same Cold Case set-up. Pretty good, though, if without a glam lead.
SCREWY THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Just once, it’d be nice to see one of these over-obsessive types keep a promise to show for a family event: a school recital, Mom’s birthday dinner, Grandpa’s operation, a child’s hockey game, church choir practice! In spite of beeps, buzzers & texts invading our sets, they can't set an alarm on their smart phone?
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