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That sounds awfully similar to our own reading of Department Q. I'll watch it too.
by ravishi 8mo ago
That sounds awfully similar to our own reading of Department Q. I'll watch it too.
- bee_rider 8mo agoDepartment Q is a weird one because it goes with the trope of the acerbic hyper-competent guy, but then… actually, I don’t recall, is he actually incompetent? Or does he just not quite live up to his over-confidence. Also it is sometimes hard with these detective shows because the screenwriters might want a character to be hyper-competent, but they are people too, limited in their ability to portray super-competent abilities. This can result in characters lucking their way into clues.
- talldan 8mo agoMy recollection is that the main guy is a highly competent at problem solving, but limited by an inability to work with others. In some ways similar to Lamb in Slow Horses, though I think Lamb is a very good manipulator of people (he gets others to do what he wants without telling them directly), whereas the Dep. Q guy doesn't engage at all.