Dept Q. Renewed For Season 2 At Netflix

Fire up the Ford Sierra – 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 — Akram (Alexej Manvelov),  Rose (Leah Byrne), and Hardy (Jamie Sives) — 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.

Per Netflix'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’d like to thank Netflix for giving us the opportunity to further investigate Dept. Q’s storylines,” said star Goode in a statement to the streamer. “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!" Added Netflix executives Mona Qureshi and Manda Levin in their own statement alongside today's announcement: “We 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’t wait to see what Morck and the gang uncover in Season 2 … Edinburgh, we’re back.”

Comfortably ranking among Empire's own best shows of 2025 so far, Dept. Q — which spent six weeks in Netflix's global Top Ten earlier this year — 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 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 — 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!