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Will There Be a Dept. Q Season 2? Latest News on Show's Future
- Dept Q is a detective drama created, written, and directed by Scott Frank that premiered in mid-2025 on Netflix, set in Edinburgh and following a cold case team.
- The series centers on DCI Carl Morck investigating the disappearance of Merrit Lingard, a prosecutor who vanished four years earlier, chosen as the cold case to solve.
- Morck leads a team including Akram Salim, a Syrian refugee with detective skills, and DC Rose Dickson, who suffers nerve damage from a car accident but provides valuable insights.
- Filming for the nine-episode first season began in early 2024 and the show quickly reached number one on Netflix's global viewership charts after its mid-2025 release.
- Though season two has not been officially confirmed and filming has not started, cast and creators express hope, with a possible release not expected before late 2026 or 2027.
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Matthew Goode On New Detective Show ‘Dept Q’, His “Favorite Day Ever” With Maggie Smith On ‘Downton Abbey’ & If He’d Do A Spinoff
With Netflix series Dept Q., Matthew Goode stars as DCI Carl Morck, a curmudgeonly cop afflicted by PTSD and almost Sherlock-level powers of deduction. Based on the novels by Jussi Adler-Olsen, which have also been made into a series of Danish-language films, the Netflix series is developed by and partially directed by Scott Frank, of […]
Will there be a Dept. Q season 2? Latest news on show's future
*Warning - contains full spoilers for Dept. Q season 1*Netflix has released its latest thriller offering: Dept. Q, a nine-part series introducing viewers to Matthew Goode's take on Carl Morck, the detective at the centre of Jussi Adler-Olsen's novels.Created by American screenwriter, director and producer Scott Frank (The Queen's Gambit), the show moves the action from Copenhagen to Edinburgh, yet still sees Morck heading up a new department loo…
Among the authors whose work is repeatedly sought after by filmmakers is the Danish writer Jussi Adler-Olsen. Six Danish feature films have been made based on his ten-part bestselling series so far. These are now complemented by the nine-part British series Department Q, which can be seen in its entirety on Netflix. The show runner of the new series is Scott Frank, the creator of the dramatic miniseries Women's Gambit, among others. Shelved in b…
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