Matthew Beard

Sophie Straw struggles with the glass walls and ceilings surrounding her in Funny Woman Season 2, so she does the sensible thing and goes to France.

Vienna Blood is (probably) dead; long live Vienna Blood... Unless someone steps up and saves it.

Even in the throes of this class/geography/gender politics vexation, I’m so happy to have Funny Woman back on screen.

Vienna Blood actors Matthew Beard (Dr. Max Liebermann) and Juergen Maurer (Inspector Oskar Rheinhardt) spent about an hour thoughtfully discussing their characters’ arcs and the series’s distressingly timely historical resonances.

Welcome back, possibly for the last time, to Vienna Blood. If this season finale pulls double-duty as a series finale, it will complete a nice little set of bookends for our favorite intercultural, pre-Great War crime-fighting odd couple.

Vienna Blood's penultimate episode illustrates that just because someone is paranoid doesn’t mean he’s wrong.