Fire up the Ford Sierra \u2013 Carl Morck is coming back back back baby! Yes, you heard us right: following the runaway success of the first season of Scott Frank’s Dept. Q, which introduced viewers to Matthew Goode’s foul-mouthed DCI Morck and his merry band of misfit detectives \u2014 Akram (Alexej Manvelov),\u00a0 Rose (Leah Byrne), and Hardy (Jamie Sives) \u2014 as they cracked the case of an abducted prosecutor (and learned to work as a somewhat functional team), Netflix has booked a swift return trip to Edinburgh for Season 2.<\/p>\n
Per Netflix<\/a>‘s own announcement, Goode and the gang will all be returning for Season 2 of the crime drama, based on Danish author Jussi Adler-Olsen’s blockbuster crime novels. “I\u2019d like to thank Netflix for giving us the opportunity to further investigate Dept. Q\u2019s storylines,\u201d said star Goode in a statement to the streamer. \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!” Added Netflix executives Mona Qureshi and Manda Levin in their own statement alongside today’s announcement: \u201cWe are raring to return to Carl Morck and his band of glorious misfits at Dept. Q. Scott 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 Comfortably ranking among Empire’s own best shows of 2025 so far<\/a>, Dept. Q \u2014 which spent six weeks in Netflix’s global Top Ten earlier this year \u2014 has gained an instant following thanks to its potent combination of drumskin-tight plotting, formidable lead performances, and profoundly flawed yet nevertheless totally rootable characters. Think Slow Horses<\/a> meets Taggart and you’re perhaps a tenth of the way to parsing the unique pleasure of watching Frank’s deliciously grim, F-Bomb rammed show. And now, with today’s Season 2 confirmation, here’s hoping Dept. Q doesn’t just share a tonality with Slow Horses \u2014 we want at least another six series of this show too, preferably with less than a year between each one. We don’t ask for much!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fire up the Ford Sierra \u2013 Carl Morck is coming back back back baby! Yes, you heard us…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77416,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-77415","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\/77415","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=77415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}