History Series / ViennaBlood

* DownerEnding: Max's romance with Therese in Season 3 comes to a screeching halt at the end of the last episode, when he drops by her apartment and discovers a husband there with her.

** In the final episode of the third season, a major suspect is a leading member of a right-wing pan-Germanic nationalist society that doesn't like Jews (like Max) or Slavic-speakers (like Oskar, who is an ethnic Slovak). [[spoiler:It turns out that the Hapsburg secret service were deliberately trying to frame him as the murderer knowing that Oskar and Max would be prejudiced against him.]]

* "Death is Now a Welcome Guest": Oskar and Max investigate when a film star is poisoned at the premiere of her new movie.

* LockedRoomMystery: In the first episode the phony psychic is found dead in her room, shot through the heart. The windows are bolted and the door is locked. It might be a suicide...except for the fact that the gun isn't there.

* KarmaHoudini: "The Devil's Kiss" ends with DiabolicalMastermind Lazar Kiss escaping [[spoiler:along with his wife and daughter]].

* AnswerCut: In need of a second for his duel in episode 2, Max says that he needs a policeman in order to arrest Hafner, but that Oskar can't do it because they already know he's a cop. Max then looks to his left and Oskar says "No, no!" Cut to von Bülow, Oskar's archrival in the department, who does in fact serve as Max's second.

* TitleDrop: "Death is Now a Welcome Guest" is a dialogue intertitle seen in the film involved in the episode, an adaptation of the legend of Aeneas and Dido from ''Literature/TheAeneid''.

* AcquittedTooLate: In the second episode Max quickly realizes the mentally retarded man they initially arrest and charge for the brothel murders didn't do it, and Amelia is able to prove forensically that the blood found on his clothes is all from his job at a slaughterhouse. Unfortunately his name is already in the papers and a police sergeant intentionally sets him up for a VigilanteExecution by two vagrants he puts into the suspect's cell.

It is a series of detective dramas, based on the ''Liebermann Papers'' series of novels by Frank Tallis. The setting is Vienna, Austria in 1906 and the years immediately after. Franz Joseph is emperor of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler will soon come to town to study art, and UsefulNotes/WorldWarI is just a few years away. Max Liebermann (Creator/MatthewBeard) is a British-born medical student whose family moved to Vienna when he was young, and serves as an intern in a mental asylum. After attending a lecture by UsefulNotes/SigmundFreud Max becomes an instant convert and proponent of the new science of psychiatry.

''Vienna Blood'' is a BBC limited series that has run so far for three seasons, since 2019, lasting three 90-minute episodes each. (When it ran in the United States on PBS the episodes were shown in two parts, making a total of six per season.)

Season 3 (2022): Set in 1908. Max has made enough of a reputation in the field of psychology that he's published a book and is giving book signings. Meanwhile, he's still drawn to Clara, who is starting a career of her own as a reporter. Oskar gets a love interest in the person of Therese, a middle-aged divorcee that he meets in the course of an investigation.

* HeyYou: In "The God of Shadows" Oskar gets tired of his PointyHairedBoss Von Bulow pushing him around. He pushes Von Bulow down in his chair, angrily says "I'll only take so much"...and makes a point of calling his boss simply "Bulow", omitting the honorific "Von." Von Bulow picks up on this, and while he is obviously terrified of Oskar he does gather the nerve to say "It's ''VON'' Bulow" as Oskar is stomping out the door.

* FreudianCouch: In "The Melancholy Countess" Max has his own practice. Being the Freud disciple that he is, he naturally has patients lying on a couch.

* Catchphrase: Max and Oskar often exchange the phrase "Welcome to the case" to each other, following a break in the investigation.

[[caption-width-right:350:Inspector Oskar Reinhardt (Jurgen Maurer) and Dr. Max Liebermann (Matthew Beard)]]

Max is interested in the intersection of psychiatry and criminal investigation. He gets his father to pull some strings and has himself inserted into the Vienna police, where he is attached to Inspector Oskar Reinhardt (Creator/JurgenMaurer). Reinhardt is an intense, driven man, haunted by past tragedy, pushed by demanding superiors. He takes an early dislike to insufferable know-it-all Max, but sure enough, they eventually form an effective partnership.

* InspectorLestrade: Oskar. He's the good, helpful variation of Inspector Lestrade, the one who lets the AmateurSleuth do his thing, but still, it's Max who makes the deductions most of the time.