Matthew Goode had no idea that writer-director Scott Frank—cocreator of The Queen’s Gambit and creator of Godless—had written the lead of a new series, Dept. Q, with Goode in mind.

It’s not that Goode hasn’t been No. 1 on the call sheet before, it’s just that he didn’t enjoy it. “It’s something I shied away from after the beginning of my career where I was there ...

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