‘Dept. Q’ season 2 adds 10 to cast and starts production
The second season of “Dept. Q” is officially underway, with the Netflix crime series starting production in Scotland and adding 10 cast members.
Matthew Goode returns as DCI Carl Morck alongside his ragtag team of Alexej Manvelov as Akram Salim, Leah Byrne as DC Rose Dickson and Jamie Sives as DS James Hardy. Season 2 will be re-filmed and set in Edinburgh.
Aisling Franciosi (“Speak No Evil,” “The Nightingale”) joins the cast for Season 2 as Kimmie; Greg Wise (“The Crown,” “The Buccaneers”) as Derek Powell; Nicholas Rowe (“Red Eye” S2, “Spy Among 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.
The series, written and directed by Scott Frank (“The Queen’s Gambit”) and produced by Left Bank Pictures (“The Crown”), follows Morck as he “runs the quirky Department Q from the basement of an Edinburgh police station, accused of cases previously thought unsolvable,” according to the synopsis. “This darkly humorous, propulsive show offers all the pleasures of a procedural show, 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, while Manda Levin and Jessica Burdett oversee Netflix.
“This season, Carl and his gang of misfits tackle a terrible crime hidden at the highest levels of Scottish society,” Left Bank’s Bullock said in a statement. “It’s a story for our times: rich and powerful people who believe they are above the law. Carl, of course, knows otherwise. It’s a pleasure to work with master storyteller Scott Frank again, along with the rest of team Dolly. We applaud Netflix’s courage in letting them go again.”
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 vibrant and iconic world that Scott Frank and his amazing team conjured up in one of our favorite cities. That it was so wholeheartedly embraced by audiences in Scotland, across the rest of the UK and around the world was thrilling. Season 2’s story is as darkly delightful as you would expect, and Carl and his glorious gang will have their work cut out to track down the culprits as we head back out for more!
