We haven’t seen the last of cantankerous motor-mouth Detective Carl Morck, and we couldn’t be happier.
Dept. Q has been renewed for Season 2, it was revealed today.
Matthew Good as Morck, along with the rest of the cast including Alexej Manvelov as Akram, Leah Byrne as Rose, and Jamie Sives as Hardy, are all set to return for more sleuthing.
“I’d like to thank Netflix for giving us the opportunity to further investigate Dept. Q’s storylines,” Goode said. “We have a wonderful cast and crew, headed by our resident genius Scott Frank. I cannot wait to read what comes from his magic quill!”
From Scott Frank (The Queen’s Gambit, Godless) the Scottish crime drama — based on the Danish novels by Jussi Adler-Olsen, and served with a splash of US procedural crime drama garnish — focuses on a small scrappy team of misfits (the go-to set up for new TV shows in 2025), who take on forgotten cold cases. Led by Morck, a brash but brilliant detective, this rag-tag group must learn to work together and lean on each other’s strengths as they face a series of obstacles from within and without.
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In Season One Morck and his newly formed team were relegated to a grimy basement to work on the case of a prominent civil servant who went missing several years ago. Meanwhile, Morck privately attempted to solve the mystery surrounding his own almost-fatal shooting several months previously.
“We are raring to return to Carl Morck and his band of glorious misfits at Dept. Q,” Netflix executives Mona Qureshi and Manda Levin added. “Scott Frank brought us best-in-class storytelling and thrilled Netflix audiences worldwide. We can’t wait to see what Morck and the gang uncover in Season 2 … Edinburgh, we’re back.”
More as we have it.
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