Netflix has renewed “Dept. Q” for a second season.
The series stars Matthew Goode as Carl Morck, a detective chief inspector in Edinburgh. Per the official logline, Carl “is a brilliant cop but a terrible colleague,” who survives a shooting that kills a young polive officer and paralyzes his partner. Traumatized, he is relegated to become the only member of the police department’s cold case unit, but unexpectedly “starts to build a gang of waifs and strays who have everything to prove.” Together, they begin to unravel the case of disappeared prosecutor Merritt Lingard (Chloe Pirrie). Alexej Manvelov, Kelly Macdonald and Leah Byrne star alongside Goode and Pirrie.
“Dept. Q” is based on Jussi Adler-Olsen’s crime novel series “Department Q.” Season 1 premiered in May and was generally well received, scoring an 88% on Rotten Tomatoes and spending six weeks on the Netflix Top 10.
Scott Frank writes and directs the series, and serves as executive producer alongside Rob Bullock via Left Bank Pictures and Charlotte Moore. Mona Qureshi and Manda Levin are the executives overseeing for Netflix. Like the first season, Season 2 will be shot in Edinburgh.
“We are raring to return to Carl Morck and his band of glorious misfits at ‘Dept. Q,’” Qureshi and Manda Levin said in a statement. “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.”
“So, we are going downstairs to ‘Dept. Q for a second season.’ We at Left Bank Pictures nervously await what Scott has in store for his alter-ego Carl Morck, and the other enabling members of team do-lally,” Bullock said. “We salute Netflix’s courage to let them loose once again.”
“I’m grateful to the folks at Netflix, as well as our shining cast and crew, for once more risking their careers to enable my folly,” Frank said.
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“I’d like to thank Netflix for giving us the opportunity to further investigate Department 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 Variety US