Ballard (2025)

I’m not a super fan of Maggie Q, but this new Prime Video series shows her at her most thoughtful and sensitive. She is more than a fighting machine, here. But her vulnerability is also her strength.

I find it kind of quirky that a UK series, featuring a cop digging up old cold case files is called Dept. Q. Hmm. Is there some kind of synchronicity going on?

The ‘chickens coming home to roost’ comment is intentional. Several times toward the ending of season 1, Ballard and Parker seem to be congratulating themselves for putting the bad guy away. That’s hubris. No sooner do they relax than something else comes up, and it’s obvious that their work is never going to be done. That’s how you also get a cliffhanger final episode to carry the show into season 2.

And, just in case you’re interested, I already have a theory of whodunit.