The second season of “Dept. Q” is officially underway, with the Netflix crime series starting production in Scotland and adding 10 forged members.
Matthew Goode is about to return as DCI Carl Morck alongside his rag-tag team of Alexej Manvelov as Akram Salim, Leah Byrne as DC Rose Dickson and Jamie Sives as DS James Hardy. Season 2 will once more be filmed and set in Edinburgh.
Joining the forged for Season 2 are Aisling Franciosi (“Speak No Evil,” “The Nightingale”) as Kimmie; Greg Clever (“The Crown,” “The Buccaneers”) as Derek Powell; Nicholas Rowe (“Red Eye” S2, “Spy Amongst Friends”) as Thomas Fulton; Tony Curran (“Outlander: Blood of My Blood,” “Mary and 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 (“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,” “Judging Amy”) as Helen.
Other returning faces from Season 1 include Mark Bonnar as Stephen Burns, Kate Dickie as Moira Jacobson, Aaron McVeigh as Jasper and Sanjeev Kohli as Martin Fleming.
Written and directed by Scott Frank (“The Queen’s Gambit”) and produced by Left Bank Pictures (“The Crown”), the show follows Morck as as he “heads up the maverick Dept. Q from the basement of an Edinburgh police station, charged with cases previously deemed unsolvable,” in response to its synopsis. “This darkly humorous, propulsive show delivers all of the pleasures of a procedural, but takes us into the complex mysteries not only of the cases but of the detectives themselves.”
Executive producers include Frank, Rob Bullock and Charlotte Moore, with Manda Levin and Jessica Burdett overseeing for Netflix.
“This season, Carl and his band of misfits tackle a terrible crime hidden in the very best echelons of Scottish society,” Left Bank’s Bullock said in an announcement. “It’s a story for our times: wealthy and powerful individuals who imagine they’re above the law. Carl, after all, knows otherwise. It’s a joy to be working with master storyteller Scott Frank once more, together with the remaining of team dolally. We applaud Netflix’s courage for letting them loose once more.”
Added Netflix’s Levin: “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 certainly one of our very favorite cities. That it was embraced so wholeheartedly by an audience in Scotland, in the remaining of the U.K., and internationally, was thrilling. The story of Season 2 is as darkly delicious as you’d expect, and Carl and his glorious gang may have their work cut out pinning down the perpetrators as we launch back in for more!”