{"id":77200,"date":"2025-08-19T07:05:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T07:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/77200\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T07:05:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T07:05:09","slug":"dept-q-season-2-the-matthew-goode-series-will-return-for-another-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/77200\/","title":{"rendered":"Dept. Q Season 2: The Matthew Goode Series Will Return for Another Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In spite of <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.netflix.com\/tudum\/articles\/dept-q-release-date-cast-news\">his very best efforts<\/a>, cantankerous Detective Chief Inspector Carl Morck (Matthew Goode) remains employed by the police department of Edinburgh, Scotland \u2014 and now, he\u2019s coming back for another season of <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.netflix.com\/tudum\/dept-q\">Dept. Q<\/a>, the hit mystery series from creator Scott Frank (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.netflix.com\/title\/80234304?trackId=259776131&amp;trkId=259776131&amp;src=tudum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-uia=\"streaming-link\" class=\"css-0\">The Queen\u2019s Gambit<\/a>).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Also returning? The crew of misfit investigators <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.netflix.com\/tudum\/articles\/dept-q-ending-explained\">he built over the course of the first season<\/a>, including Alexej Manvelov as Akram,\u00a0Leah Byrne as Rose, and Jamie Sives as Hardy.\u00a0And, of course, it wouldn\u2019t be Dept. Q without the series\u2019 other protagonist: Edinburgh itself, where production will once again take place.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d like to thank Netflix for giving us the opportunity to further investigate Dept. Q\u2019s storylines,\u201d Goode says in a statement to Netflix. \u201cWe have a wonderful cast and crew, headed by our resident genius Scott Frank. I cannot wait to read what comes from his magic quill!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Based on the novels by Jussi Adler-Olsen, Dept. Q follows the maverick Department Q team, headquartered in the basement of an Edinburgh police station and assigned to re-investigate with cases previously deemed unsolvable. The darkly humorous, propulsive show delivers all the pleasures of a procedural, taking us into the complex mysteries not just of the cases but of the detectives themselves. Season 1 spent <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.netflix.com\/tudum\/articles\/top-10-june-2-2025\">six weeks in the Global Top Ten shows on Netflix<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-uia=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/AAAAQe5Ga3F-VGn2TvaApNE4QVFTFaq2OUo5asVJ_5KVyHRq9pdUjou92J49CnqFVF7w95pYBpjQ-39gwEmf97GI91tNufaI5ni4.png\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Matthew Goode as Carl Morck and Alexej Manvelov as Akram Salim in \u2018Dept. Q\u2019 season 1.\" class=\"css-1d3w5wq\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are raring to return to Carl Morck and his band of glorious misfits at Dept. Q,\u201d Netflix executives Mona Qureshi and Manda Levin say in a statement. \u201cScott Frank brought us best-in-class storytelling and thrilled Netflix audiences worldwide. We can\u2019t wait to see what Morck and the gang uncover in Season 2 \u2026 Edinburgh, we\u2019re back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned for more details on the next cold case that Morck and co. will be cracking \u2026 and keep your fingers crossed that they\u2019re able to clean up their basement a bit between seasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In spite of his very best efforts, cantankerous Detective Chief Inspector Carl Morck (Matthew Goode) remains employed by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-77200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}