Dept. Q

About Dept. Q

A brash but brilliant cop becomes head of a new police department, where he leads an unlikely team of misfits in solving Edinburgh's cold cases.

Dept. Q is a crime and mystery series that airs on Netflix. The series is filed under complex, cold case, provocative, and questioning.

Since May 2025 it has reached 2 seasons and 10 episodes. It is still in production. Seasons run to about 5 episodes.

Matthew Goode appears as DCI Carl Morck, Chloe Pirrie as Merritt Lingard, Jamie Sives as DCI James Hardy, and Alexej Manvelov as Akram Salim. The story is adapted from a novel. Produced by Left Bank Pictures.

It streams on Netflix and Netflix Standard with Ads in the United States. Designated Survivor, IT: Welcome to Derry, and The Ark make useful companions to Dept. Q, all filed under dramatic. TMDB voters put it at 7.9 out of 10 across 516 votes and it carries a TV-MA rating.