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Dept Q<\/p>\n
Netflix<\/p>\n
While the Netflix Top 10 list may be mostly dominated by the likes of Ginny and Georgia and Sirens, one new show is sliding under the radar, even if it never landed a #1 spot.<\/p>\n
That would be Dept. Q, the new British murder mystery series starring Matthew Goode as a traditionally reckless-but-brilliant cop tasked with solving cold cases. It may sound clich\u00e9, but it\u2019s quite good, and has racked up an 84% critic score and a very high 94% audience score. Now, fans want answers about a season 2.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not time to worry\u2026yet. No, the show is not a miniseries which would discourage a season 2 ruling this out, and despite that, no, it has not been renewed yet. But Dept. Q only was released at the very end of May, and it hasn\u2019t even been out two weeks yet. That\u2019s not particularly long for Netflix, and we often see renewals a month or more after release if we\u2019re not talking about blockbuster hits.<\/p>\n
There are some updates here, namely what the cast thinks of all this. Here\u2019s star Matthew Goode via Deadline<\/a>:<\/p>\n \n \u201cI\u2019d wanted to work with Shirley Henderson\u2014\u2018Shenderson\u2019\u2014for years. And Kelly McDonald, and then this fairly relatively new actress, Leah Byrne, who is a revelation in this show. It\u2019s very difficult to be talking about some of the things that she has to talk about and make them hilarious. It\u2019s quite a staggering\u2026 Well, it\u2019s writing and talent, where they meet, I suppose. I love them all. That\u2019s why we\u2019re desperate to do a second season.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n And here\u2019s actress Chloe Pirrie who plays Merritt Lingard to Cosmo<\/a>:<\/p>\n \n \u201cI think [a second season]<\/p>\n would be really great for the cast…And great for Scotland to have a show like this run again. It\u2019s definitely something we would all want.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Deadline said they believe there is \u201czero doubts\u201d about a second season, and one point in the show\u2019s favor is that it\u2019s based on a series of books, and there are ten of them for a sprawling amount of source material.<\/p>\n I\u2019m not going to go full Deadline here and say there are \u201czero” doubts that Dept. Q gets renewed for season 2, but I am leaning in an optimistic direction. Netflix loves crime series. There\u2019s lots of source material to pull from. It has been well-received by critics and viewers. It has a stellar cast but not a wildly expensive one, and the same is true for being a grounded crime series rather than some huge blockbuster. All the signs are there that this is going to work out, but fans should be patient as for most Netflix series, this kind of thing doesn\u2019t happen overnight.<\/p>\n Follow me <\/strong>on Twitter<\/strong><\/a>, <\/strong>YouTube<\/strong><\/a>,<\/strong><\/a> Bluesky <\/strong><\/a>and <\/strong>Instagram<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n Pick up my sci-fi novels the <\/strong>Herokiller series<\/strong><\/a> and <\/strong>The Earthborn Trilogy<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n