Netflix thriller hailed ‘pure greatness’ confirms season 2 after weeks in top 10

It’s been months of waiting but we finally have confirmation that Dept Q will be back for season 2.

Netflix’s Scotland-set crime thriller proved a hit with subscribers, spending six weeks in the streaming platform’s global top 10, with numerous gushing reactions online describing the drama as ‘pure greatness’.

Starring Matthew Goode as the rumpled detective Carl Morck, Dept Q was stuffed with twists, red herrings and complex characters, many of whom will be back for the second outing of the show.

The second season, which will again be filmed and set in Edinburgh, will see Goode return alongside Morck’s team of misfits – Alexej Manvelov as Syrian refugee and former police officer Akram, Leah Byrne as Rose and Jamie Sives as Hardy.

The nine-part show saw Morck squirrelled away in a basement police department, combing over cold cases. When Akram chanced upon the file involving the disappearance of an ambitious young prosecutor Merritt Lingard (Chloe Pirrie) on a ferry trip four years ago, they set about cracking it.

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