As the woods are full of cuckoos, it seems television is filled with detectives who skate on the edge of madness. Perhaps we should blame Sherlock Holmes, who, in his later TV iterations (think Jeremy Brett and Benedict Cumberbatch) often seemed on the verge of an imminent breakdown.

You may hardly recognize the genius sleuth from the neuroses-free way Basil Rathbone played him in movies from the ‘30s and ‘40s. (Most of those films are available on the free service Tubi. Proceed directly to The Hound of the Baskervilles, released in 1939; it’s the best of a frequently bad lot.)

Matthew Goode is the freshest face to contend with debilitating emotional turmoil in Dept. Q, new on Netflix. Goode plays Carl Morck, an Englishman detective in Edinburgh. As the series begins its nine-episode run

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