Matthew Beard

Funny Woman Season 2, we hardly knew ye! I wish we’d gotten at least two more episodes of the life and times of Sophie Straw, but it’s been a fun, brisk quartet of episodes. 

Funny Woman’s second season is burning through plot points like a bunch of raked-up autumnal leaves as Sophie has a life-changing experience.

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.