{"id":119594,"date":"2019-11-18T23:30:47","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T22:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/11\/18\/vienna-blood-review-so-much-like-sherlock-it-seems-like-a-spoof\/"},"modified":"2019-11-18T23:30:47","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T22:30:47","slug":"vienna-blood-review-so-much-like-sherlock-it-seems-like-a-spoof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=119594","title":{"rendered":"Vienna Blood review \u2013 so much like Sherlock it seems like a spoof"},"content":{"rendered":"

This fin de si\u00e8cle murder mystery about a maverick detective and his doctor sidekick is laughably Holmesian \u2013 but enjoyably absurd For someone who professes to be into the new-fangled science of what makes people tick, I\u2019m not sure it was the cleverest move to get into a rickety carriage on a fairground ferris wheel with a psychopathic killer. Still, the image of junior doctor Max Liebermann hanging from his fingertips over the city of Vienna after being hurled from the door, proved a thrilling, if completely avoidable \u2013 \u201chypnosis would be easier\u201d \u2013 end to the first episode of Vienna Blood (BBC Two).It is set in Vienna in 1906, where gruff detective Oskar Rheinhardt (Juergen Maurer) is told that a young doctor \u2013 Liebermann (Matthew Beard), a fan of Freud \u2013 will be shadowing him to learn about \u201cthe psychopathy of the criminal mind\u201d. \u201cCatchy,\u201d deadpans Rheinhardt. The three-part series will be compared, unavoidably, to Sherlock: its writer, Steve Thompson, adapting the Frank Tallis novels, was also a Sherlock scriptwriter. But Liebermann\u2019s character study of his reluctant new mentor is so Holmesian it feels like a spoof. For the first half an hour, it feels as if the makers are failing to repress their Sherlock complex \u2013 the jaunty camera angles, the hyperreal look, the jangly music \u2013 until it starts to relax into itself. Continue reading…
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This fin de si\u00e8cle murder mystery about a maverick detective and his doctor sidekick is laughably Holmesian \u2013 but enjoyably absurd For someone who professes to be into the new-fangled science of what makes people tick, I\u2019m not sure it was the cleverest move to get into a rickety carriage […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}