Netflix’s brilliant band of cold case misfits are heading back to work, as ‘Dept. Q’ Season 2 begins production in Edinburgh with Matthew Goode (The Offer, A Discovery of Witches) returning as the gloriously grumpy DCI Carl Morck.
Based on the books by Jussi Adler-Olsen, the dark detective drama follows Morck and his unlikely team as they dig into long-buried cases from the basement of an Edinburgh police station. Season 1 saw the newly formed Department Q tackle one of the murkiest unsolved cases in the city’s history, but it seems that was only the beginning.
“This season, Carl and his band of misfits tackle a terrible crime hidden in the highest echelons of Scottish society,” Dept. Q executive producer Rob Bullock revealed. “It is a story for our times: rich and powerful people who believe they are above the law. Carl, of course, knows otherwise.”
Returning alongside Matthew Goode are Alexej Manvelov (Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, Top Dog) as Akram Salim, Leah Byrne (But When We Dance) as Detective Constable Rose Dickson, and Jamie Sives (Annika, Guilt) as Detective Chief Inspector James Hardy.
Also back for Season 2 are Mark Bonnar (Line of Duty, Ludwig) as Stephen Burns, Kate Dickie (The Witch, Game of Thrones) as Detective Chief Superintendent Moira Jacobson, Aaron McVeigh (The Cleansing Hour) as Jasper Stewart, and Sanjeev Kohli (Still Game, River City) as Martin Fleming.
They will be joined by a rather impressive new line-up of potential sleuths, suspects, victims, wrong ’uns, and people who probably should not be trusted in an expensive drawing room. New cast members include Aisling Franciosi (Speak No Evil, The Nightingale) as Kimmie, Greg Wise (The Crown, The Buccaneers) as Derek Powell, Nicholas Rowe (Mr. Holmes) as Thomas Fulton, Tony Curran (Outlander: Blood of My Blood, Mary & George) as Winnie Calderwood, Hamish Clark (Monarch of the Glen) as Christopher Herron, Alex Ferns (Waiting for the Out, The Batman) as Phil Allenbeck, Ross Anderson (A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, The Rig) as Ricky Daddario, Rebecca Root (Heartstopper, The Wheel of Time) as June Lovesay, Isla Johnston (The Queen’s Gambit, The Carpenter’s Son) as Agnes, and Amy Brenneman (The Old Man, Private Practice) as Helen.
“Season 1 of Dept. Q made us laugh and cry; it shocked and intrigued us; we fell in love with the characters and with the incredibly vivid and iconic world that Scott Frank and his amazing team conjured up in one of our very favorite cities,” said Manda Levin, head of UK scripted development for Netflix. “That it was embraced so wholeheartedly by an audience in Scotland, in the rest of the UK, and across the world, was thrilling. The story of Season 2 is as darkly delicious as you’d expect, and Carl and his glorious gang will have their work cut out pinning down the perpetrators as we launch back in for more!”
Season 1 of ‘Dept. Q’ proved to be one of Netflix’s more distinctive crime dramas, thanks to its mix of bleak humour, thorny characters, and a Edinburgh setting that gave the series a very different flavour from your standard detective procedural. With Season 2 apparently heading into the upper levels of Scottish society, Carl Morck may need all the sarcasm, suspicion, and emotional repression he can muster.
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