The first whiff of scandal brings that all down. Liebermann's boss, Gruber was the Countess' other doctor and wants a disciplinary hearing to disgrace Max and his Freudian methods. Leah is rounding up her fashionable friends like Frau Huber ( Corinna Pumm) to be clients.

For Liebermann, whose fledgling business only just launched, it's a body blow. Her first Doctor prescribed opium, but the new one, Herr Liebermann, had stopped it, and now she's dead. Housekeeper Frau Reiss ( Michou Friesz) informs DI Oskar Rheinhardt the Countess was seeking treatment for depression. The following day, the maid, Tilda ( Krista Stadler), finds her having drowned in a tub. Season 2 returns with our characters advancing slightly, but not nearly enough in 'The Melancholy Countess.' As the story opens, Countess Sophia Nadazdy ( Sunnyi Melles) just consumed poison and is dying before she passes, she sees (or has a vision of) a woman in white. But also, one would have to sit through multiple episodes for basic answers like PTSD. 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 those on screen. In Season 1, Vienna Blood was interesting in its usual setting and some of its characters, but its mysteries were frequently too simple.

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