Little purse for my imagination

Akram being the first friendly face Merritt sees in person as she's rescued is such a perfect and satisfying detail, seeing as he was the one who picked her cold case file and knew she was alive from reading it. He was the one who insisted and stood up for her when everyone else had written her off as dead. I may or may not have blubbered like a babe when he introduced himself to her.

Chloe Pirrie deserves a whole mantle of awards for Dept Q

They were looking for every reason for Merritt Lingard disappearance. The men she spurned, the people she put away into jail, the people she tried to put away into jail. The overarching question of it all was: who did Merritt Lingard, the "blunt weapon", "rueful" woman, and "cunt" as her own dad called her, piss off enough to deserve being kidnapped and/or murdered. She internalized it as well, having written all the names of the people she might have done wrong in her life on the walls of her own prison for four years to answer the question of "why are you here?". Merritt Lingard was going to resign herself to death because she believed this must be the reckoning for the life she's lived. But it turns out, the answer to this mystery was not divine reckoning for something Meritt had done, and even if it was, it's not something she would have deserved. It was because of something she had no control over, the actions of a family completely unrelated to her and a sordid history of abuse in that family she had nothing to do with. She didnt deserve it. She was just the sin eater for the bad decisions of every person around her. No wonder the show starts with Merritt (unsuccessfully) attempting to put a powerful man who murdered his wife in jail, the whole story is a repudiation of the logic of abusers: "even if I did it, you deserved it anyways".

I need 10 seasons of dept q immediately

One thing that department q really nailed is showing how almost every woman in the show does actually care about Carl without making their behaviour to him maternal or familial in anyway. Not one of them refuses to tell him to go fuck himself or attempts to baby him but they all genuinely care about him (Moira and Rachel being the best examples) It's just so refreshing and well done

department q is set in Scotland, has some of the best accents I've heard in a while, has a Syrian refugee who was a cop and is sweet but lethal, has all around broken people but supportive of each other, some strained but good family relationships and is entertaining af so you should all watch it

i’m watching dept. q. and it’s really good, i’m into it. but the whole time i’m going ‘omg this scary, this is sad, crime is bad… but mmm the scotland aesthetic is a *chef’s kiss*’. i’m like a squirrel anxiously shoving acorns into my face or in my case pouring multiple cups of tea down my throat while an eerie scene is occurring and then suddenly! oh look a pretty old house and a stormy sea, let’s just have a longer conversation with this creepy old man i like his house and the wind in the grass. anyway, loving the show!