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PennyK

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17. This is actually about a TV show based on books
Sun Jan 26, 2020, 08:06 PM
Jan 2020

Last year I read The Liebermann Papers, a series by Frank Tallis and loved it. Well, BBC made a series out of three of the books. Each one runs 1 1/2 hours, but Masterpiece decided to split them in half for some reason (actually they might contain more 'adult' material than PBS's usual stuff).
They started showing it last week but my local channel was out for most of the week (new antenna). They did re-air the first one Friday night, but I saved it so that I can watch the first show in full tonight.
Dr. Liebermann is an early psychiatrist, trained by Freud, who gets together with a police detective with whom he solves murders. It's turn-of-the century Vienna, so it's pretty much a Viennese "Alienist." Liebermann is Jewish and boy is there plenty of antisemitism in the books, not to mention music and strudel.
I read that some of the people who worked on Sherlock were involved. Hoping they did a good job.

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