Dept. Q (2025)

The best new arrival in years. Scott Frank and Chandni Lakhani moved Jussi Adler-Olsen's Danish novels to Edinburgh, where Matthew Goode's abrasive DCI Carl Morck returns from a shooting and is parked in a basement cold case unit nobody wants. The first season's case, the unexplained disappearance of a prosecutor years earlier, is the kind of file everyone else had stopped looking at, and the misfit team around Morck is as much the draw as the mystery. It takes an episode or two to settle, then gets very hard to stop. Netflix renewed it for a second season in August 2025, with its release expected in 2027.