Vienna Blood

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Season 1
Season #: 4, 3, 2, 1
Metascore
72

Generally favorable reviews - based on 4 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 4
  3. Negative: 0 out of 4
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Critic Reviews

  1. The Independent
    Reviewed by: Sean O'Grady
    Jan 3, 2020
    100
    It’s a cop show, a police procedural, and it combines in a formulaic way the usual characteristics of all such stories and series. ... When it is done well, as here, the results are exceptional and make for compelling viewing.
  2. Wall Street Journal
    Reviewed by: John Anderson
    Jan 17, 2020
    80
    If “Vienna Blood” seems to resemble other thrillers in pacing and tone, there’s a reason: Its creator is screenwriter Steve Thompson (“Sherlock,” “Deep State,” “Jericho”), so there will be a certain comfortable familiarity to the proceedings. (The directors are Umut Dag and Robert Dornhelm.) But there’s also enough that’s novel about the show’s cerebral gumshoes to keep viewers rapt, and likely hoping for more.
  3. The Guardian
    Reviewed by: Emine Saner
    Jan 2, 2020
    60
    It is all absurd but enjoyable, the extended length more or less justified by the subplots. ... The odd-couple detective and sidekick setup feels tired. But Beard and Maurer are excellent, and my id is a sucker for a bit of murder in a fin de siècle setting, so I’ll forgive much.
  5. The Times
    Reviewed by: Carol Midgley
    Jan 7, 2020
    40
    It had more the vibe of a period potboiler made in the 1980s with accompanying mood music, where the baddies sneered and cackled and the women were hysterical, being shagged by cads or naked on a pathologist's slab. It was hammier than a butcher's knife, but it wasn't unenjoyable for it, providing you took it with a fistful of salt.

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User Score
5.7

Mixed or average reviews- based on 7 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 7
  3. Negative: 1 out of 7
  1. MadAlf
    Mar 2, 2021
    3
    Good recreation of the epoch and scenery, but very poor plot and characters. If budget and idea would get into a right hands we would receivedGood recreation of the epoch and scenery, but very poor plot and characters. If budget and idea would get into a right hands we would received a thing which might be interesting as Sherlock, but it never happened.… Full Review »
  2. UncleWillard
    Feb 3, 2020
    7
    I've only seen the first two episodes, but it reminds me of The Alienist, except it's good and not so dark. If you like Ripper Street or TheI've only seen the first two episodes, but it reminds me of The Alienist, except it's good and not so dark. If you like Ripper Street or The Alienist, you'll dig this. Pretty much a typical PBS period whodunit, and there's nothing at all wrong with that. I gotta admit the main character's older sister is annoying, and I simply don't care about his life or family, but I get that he's a Jew in 19th century Vienna so there's that. I'll probably finish the first season.… Full Review »
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