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PBS’ newest mystery series, Magpie Murders, opens with a montage of Alan Conway Conleth Hill) struggling to produce chapter after chapter in his latest whodunit in the wildly popular Atticus Pünd series. (Think Poirot, but German rather than Belgian.) Once the novel is completed, Conway snaps his fountain pen, splattering
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Since Masterpiece announced in 2020 that it would adapt British author Anthony Horowitz's novel Magpie Murders to series, viewers have been anticipating having Lesley Manville as an amateur sleuth solving a mystery via the victim's novel. Little did they know it would come as part of
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AMC Networks' most prominent TV channels are its flagship namesake cable network AMC and its acquired British-centric companion, BBC America. Likewise, its most prominent streamers are its flagship namesake streaming service AMC+ and its acquired British-centric companion Acorn TV. But AMCN has also recently been working hard to raise
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PBS is presenting an all-female detective lineup this Fall, and the show firmly ensconced at the center of this block of mystery programming is the highly anticipated new series Magpie Murders. Based on the 2016 novel by British author Anthony Horowitz and adapted by the same, the story is the
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Vienna Blood has leaned heavily into the Liebermans' Jewishness, so opening with Catholic iconography and Gregorian chant is a choice. It's due to a lecture organized by Herr Strobl (Serge Falck), and Professor Priel (David Oberkogler) attended by Mendel, Max, and Amelia, featuring Brother Stanislav (Lukas Watzl)
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Vienna Blood is set in Vienna in the Edwardian era, but Victorian-style street urchins are universal in mysteries. The episode starts with one who stole a watch (Dajana Rajic). She leads the police on a merry chase through Landstrasse, ending with finding a dismembered body, missing a hand. Reinhardt is
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In Season 1, Vienna Blood was interesting in its usual setting and some of its characters, but its mysteries were frequently too simple. Making the lead detective an early Freud student leaned into "these aspects of mental health are so new" allowed audiences to feel more competent than
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Last week, Vienna Blood left the mystery as background noise to the lives Max Liebermann and Oskar Reinhardt are living in the final years of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire. This week continues that trend, opening with Max at the hospital, where he's openly growing weary of Professor Gruner and
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The final mystery of Vienna Blood starts with a cold open of a young man in a military uniform, running through a forest. It's short-lived, as the series cuts back to the Liebermann household, who have gathered to celebrate patriarch Mendel's birthday. Max is there, sans
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Last week's Vienna Blood ended on the revelation that Reinhardt and Max are chasing a serial killer. They have some clues as to who it is already. He's a soldier, a nationalist, who is either part of or inspired by the Brotherhood of Primal Fire. His
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At the end of Vienna Blood's first mystery, Max did the sensible thing and asked Clara to marry him. It's now a few months later, 1907, and Clara is being fitted for gown and veil while Max ponders whether or not love is real. (The legend
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The premiere episode of Vienna Blood ended on a cliffhanger. But this week doesn't pick up there. Instead, we open with Max called to the carpet by Professor Gruner, the head of the hospital, whose lectures viewers saw last week includes torturing women with "hysterics." He