Acorn TV
'Summerwater' Is Acorn TV's New Summer Series
Based on the book of the same name by Sarah Moss, 'Summerwater' brings a thriller to Scotland's holiday camping grounds.
Netflix
Prepare for More Morck as 'Dept. Q' Renewed for Season 2
In what may be the least surprising news of the summer, Netflix has confirmed a second season of Dept. Q has been commissioned. Hailing from Scott Frank, whose adaptation of The Queen's Gambit became an unlikely smash hit in the summer of 2020 for the streaming service, Dept.
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Matthew Goode Finds His Place Among the Misfits in 'Dept. Q'
Mysteries and crime-solving stories are a source of comfort, a combination of seeing someone competent in charge of righting wrongs, bringing order out of chaos by revealing the murderer hidden amongst our ranks. It's not surprising that the chaos of the last decade has led to the latest
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'Department Q' Will Go Online at the End of May
The average American reader is probably not very familiar with Danish author Jussi Adler-Olsen or his wildly popular series of thrillers, the Department Q series, initially titled Afdeling Q in Danish. Currently at ten books, with the last one published in 2022, Netflix acquired the rights to produce the first-ever
PBS
'Guilt' Exits with a Delinquent Whimper
After two seasons and a whole lot of waiting and hype... well, that was a lot of build-up for nothing. The series finale of Scottish fan favorite Guilt opts for the least exciting outcomes in nearly all the story threads, and much of that can be attributed to the decision
PBS
Money Changes Everything in ‘Guilt’s Penultimate Episode
If Guilt proves one thing, it’s that the Brothers McCall are hard to kill. It’s the third episode of the final season, and once again, Max and Jake escape with their lives, Max having talked Teddy into joining forces. Although Teddy expected Maggie to pay him for the
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'Guilt's Second Episode of the Final Season Trots Out the Daddy Issues
Guilt has a penchant for starting with characters you’ve never seen before, which is annoying when you’re trying to wrap things up. In its second episode, we meet possible pill addict Aliza (Tamsin Topolski) – though her name is never actually spoken. A no-nonsense American at a large investment
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Big Trouble in Little Edinburgh: Max & Jake Come Home in ‘Guilt’s Season 3 Premiere
Guilt’s Season 3 premiere catches up with self-serving, shady Max McCall (Mark Bonnar) a year after setting up mobster Roy Lynch (Stuart Bowman) to be killed and escaping Edinburgh. Max and his dopey brother Jake (Jamie Sives) live above Jake’s bar in Chicago. Even farther from the cushy
Netflix
Matthew Goode & Kelly Macdonald to Headline Netflix's 'Department Q'
Netflix first announced it had secured the rights to make a television adaptation of Danish author Jussi Adler-Olsen’s Department Q mystery novel just under a year ago, in April 2023, along with a slew of other U.K.-based projects at the time. Unlike some other projects announced during
PBS
PBS Sets 'Guilt' Season 3 Debut, Will Be the Show's Final Season
The BBC Scotland series Guilt was initially scooped up by Masterpiece in the summer of 2020 out of an abundance of caution by the anthology series executive producer Suzanne Simpson. It was part of a group of shows Simpson picked up the rights for to make sure there was programming
PBS
'Annika's Second Season Ends on a Helluva Cliffhanger
There are many kinds of cases in police procedurals. There are serial murderers; there are one-off killings; there are cold cases; crooked cops commit crimes, you name 'em, there's a show about them. But of all the different kinds of detective stories, none are quite so emotionally
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'Annika' Season 2 Finally Works Through The Hardest Part
Annika has always had daddy issues hovering in the background of the series since the series began, an odd choice considering it's a series centered around a female police detective and her daughter. But men aren't the only ones who have issues with their fathers, and