Everything to Remember From 'Vienna Blood' Season 2

Vienna Blood didn't premiere at the most auspicious time, arriving in January 2020 just ahead of the pandemic shutdown and with a lead-in of Masterpiece's first season of Sanditon, which was already canceled before it arrived. With Austria (where the show is filmed) in lockdown, it took six months before the series was renewed and even longer to get production off the ground again. However, Season 2 has been more of a sleeper hit for the show, partly because January 2022 gave it the lead in pair of Around The World in 80 Days and All Creatures Great and Small Season 2.

But the series still has the ongoing problem of being altered from its original three-part structure from BBC Two to a six-episode series on PBS, giving three episodes super abrupt endings as the installment is sliced in half. Thankfully, PBS Passport has come to the rescue and the series drops all six episodes at once on premiere day, allowing viewers to watch the episodes in the feature-length format as intended.

Also, Season 2 made a key recasting, with Lucy Griffiths replacing Jessica De Gouw as Amelia Lydgate, the love interest of Max Liebermann (Matthew Beard). The chemistry between Griffiths and Beard is far better, making his breaking off his engagement to Clara Weiss (Luise von Finckh) far more believable, and the love triangle he's stuck in actually works, even though Clara gets engaged to Jonas Korngold (Florian Teichtmeister). New Lydgate made a good impression on Max's dad Mendel (Conleth Hill), though his mom, Rachel (Amelia Bullmore), is far less enthusiastic about the shiksa who distracted his son from the good Jewish wife she had lined up.