Vienna Blood

[quote] Englishman Matthew Beard is milkily attractive.

American Matthew Beard was chocolate milkily attractive...for a child!

Wow, he's beautiful. Is this available on Netflix, if so I'll make a note to watch this

Thanks for the heads up, OP. I loved season one and am in absolute lust for Jürgen Maurer.

Here's one for you, then!

OMG, r4, I could snuggle with him for days!

I just watched the first two episodes in season 2, called "The Melancholy Countess." Sad story with some gay elements. Matthew Beard is so good looking.

Treasure Trail

Does he dies his hair? He has a red beard sometimes.

This show is enormously boring.

The guy on the right in the OP's picture has the limp sex appeal of Michael Wilding.

Are they fornicating with each other?

Fat ugly policeman and tall skinny ugly psychiatrist. They bore each other to death

This is a very good show. I'm glad there's a second season. Very interesting characters and story lines.

Is this a different show?

Well, that's an interesting still from Vienna Blood? Yes same show.

Vienna autumn weather seems dull.

I watched an old show on Tubi last week, Cadfael That show had some terrible weather. It was in Hungary. I could tell it wasn’t UK because the landscape wasn’t well groomed. In uk, all the tv shows have neat looking fields and farms and woods. Even the outdoor weeds in UK are pleasingly arranged. In Eastern Europe, not so much. Also, believe it or not, the weather was too gloomy for UK. I guess they filmed it in Hungary because it’s cheaper, but also because it looked more like 12th century Western Europe than Western Europe now looks.

Cadfael was too long. Each show was so padded I got bored and had to watch parts over again because I would say “oh, did something finally happen? Did they interrupt the sword clanging, the yelling, the Derek Jacoby hamming, the crows loudly cawing, the complaints of the other monks trying to keep up with the jacoby ham?

The 1990s UK shows had lots of background noises, especially loud birds. Midsomer used to have foxes yelling in the forest and had peacocks and Guinea fowl calling at night…when birds sleep. Thankfully they seem to have toned down UK animal background sounds in 21st century drama .

Liked the first series. Had a nice homoerotic feeling between them. Could have been an interesting underlying storyline. Handsome young wealthy Jewish man with family expectations finding himself attracted to an older man. Older man coming to terms with his wife leaving him having feelings for the younger man. Set against upper class Austrian High Society, nice conflict. That subtle attraction has gone in the second series. What is it now? Second rate silly detective stories which come to a full stop for said boy to be meet nice girl family don’t approve of and Burly man saving poor woman because he’s a decent man. Won’t be watching anymore.

I don't think the second season was as bad as all that, but it was a let-down from the first season, and disappointing that there was only 6 episodes.

I just wish he would stop wearing that oversized black hat.

Jürgen Maurer used to appear in Austrian society drama series "Vorstadtweiber" ( "[affluent] suburb bitches") where he plays a closeted gay meeting (and having it off) in secret with a devious secretary (who becomes Prime Minister later on, IIRC).

Jürgen's partner in these scenes, Philipp Hochmair, is even hotter than Jürgen already is. Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrawrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!

Get it on, boys! <3

schlong alert

I think the series is beautifully designed, well cast and each episode seems quite interesting until the resolution of the case which never fails to disappoint.

r21, tell me what is going on THERE!!!

R24 that one was taken at some Austrian TV awards show, it's Jürgen and Philipp Hochmair probably looking back on their, ummm, 'carnal encounters' in the TV series I've mentioned upthread.

off to the next darkroom

In a sandwich consisting of these two, I'd love to be the ham and cheese.

I'd rather just have Matthew Beard all to myself, much more my type

I will say that eps 3 and 4 from the second season -- "The Devil's Kiss" -- were among the best.

r20, any clips online of these two in character from the show getting it on? Or was it not that kind of show? Those pics are HOT, thank you for sharing!

nuzzling

Beard doesn't look good with a beard

He played a very young gay male in the BBC series "Trial & Retribution." His character was from a very wealthy family and his lover was from the council flats environment. His father was very demanding and had no idea his son was gay until both lovers were arrested for murder and during the court proceedings his lover dropped the bombshell.

Most excellent period detective drama series; well scripted with cracking storylines, acting, production values and tight direction. The two Leads are cinematic gold-dust; an intriguing ‘will they get a room’ homoerotic character fencing factor that is unexpectedly humorous on occasions. The symbolic top or bottom scene is rather hilarious; the inspector places his co-star’s hat on the top bunk and the rest is pseudo historical drama at its best, Vienna is splendidly Grand Guignol with its sumptuous detail and creepy corners. Dark and light are fleshed out with s9me skill and the whole series is cut to the bone to provide us with superior entertainment. The two leads, one slim and the youth beautiful, whilst the other is stocky and de quilting ly handsome. Both do a great acting job. Highly recommended.

I love the show and Matthew Beard, a former model, is actually quite good in this -- his ultra-skinny, pale, model-like body and face work well as a very undernourished intellectual jew.

Oddly, he plays a comic role in the extremely funny Avenue 5 and does an excellent job -- so he actually might be a really good actor -- then again, most of the Brits on TV are trained as opposed to the Americans who, instead, just train.

I started watching it and it's very good in some ways. the acting is fine, and the production values cannot be beat.

The writing is pretty silly--it's the sort of historical show where every Austrian fin-de-siecle figure imaginable keeps appearing (the first two episodes had Freud and Mahler, not to mention the hero attending a Gustav Klimt exhibition). Also, almost every one who is at all mean to the two heroes turns out to be a rapist or killer.

There are some cute guys in it.

Does Falco do the theme song?

I think the third season was much weaker than the first two, but I still enjoyed it, and Matthew Beard and Juergen Maurer still have more chemistry than they do with any woman with whom they are paired. (Which is a low bar, because they really don't have any chemistry with the women.)

I think someone somewhere decided to tone down the homoeroticism of the first two seasons and though the bunk bed scene was great (in the third season), they missed an opportunity to push the envelope a bit there. And I suspect that the weak story line Juergen Maurer had with the woman was in response to people thinking he might be gay- or at least to squelch any thoughts that he or Mathew's character might be. (That woman's slum became a lovely flat in service to the story; it wasn't realistic at all. Slums don't become elegant when you threaten a landlord.)

And I think Clara played a bigger part so we didn't think Max had broken up with her because he was more attracted to Oskar.

Silly that they wasted the opportunities the homoeroticism could have supplied to the show even if it wasn't the case and it was never consummated.

R13 is from the second season. I can't remember the name of the guy with the great tits, but he was one of my contributions to the great tits thread that got deleted. Maybe it was the countess episode.

All in all it's still a very good show with great acting from everyone - love seeing Amelia Bullmore again - and terrific production values. They just need to tighten up the writing and direction, both of which I thought were much weaker in Season 3.

I meant to mention that they did the same thing in 'Sherlock' - overtly squashed the early homoeroticism element. Yes, it would be an interesting twist if these characters were gay, but even if not, the 'are they or aren't they' chemistry could be a positive element to the shows.

But it seems so obvious that in both cases they've gone out of their way to tamp down any such interpretations, as if even the suggestion would kill a show. Maybe it would; I'm not in a position to make such decisions.

Thank you, R20.

I discovered Jürgen Maurer in "Vorstadtweiber" a few years ago on YouTube, The show's hysterical. I loved how he tried to fool his wife, who thought he went off on a business trip. She drops him off at the airport. He just hops on the U-Bahn and hightails it to his love nest into the arms of the politician.

It's great when the wife discovers the affair and wreaks her revenge.

He's the perfect Bear!

The guy in the two-part pilot in the photo at r13 without a shirt on and just suspenders does almost all his scenes in that two-parter dressed that way--and surprisingly, his character is neither gay nor is he especially sexualized.

I've just seen the first two two-parters, and so far it's not a very gay show, despite the hot male actors. The next two-parter is set in a military academy so I'm hoping it will be gay, gay, gay.

Love this series, watching Season 3 now. When will the hot daddy bear and Mathew Beard 69 each other?! I sense a little sexual tension between their characters.