

8.052 minSeason 1 • Episode 8
LatestAn empire comes under siege from within as an inner circle upends the establishment. Once a door is opened, can it ever really be closed?
Eager to make his name in 19th-century Vienna, a hungry young Sigmund Freud joins a psychic and an inspector to solve a string of bloody mysteries.
Production
Vienna so filthy-beautiful you can smell the cholera
Acting
Finster's haunted eyes carry every episode
Score
Anachronistic electronic pulse that shouldn't work but does
Creators
Stefan Brunner, Marvin Kren
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Real Freud actually used cocaine medicinally and promoted it until the 1890s — the show's not exaggerating.
The real Fleur Salomé was a brilliant intellectual who rejected Freud and Nietzsche's proposals; the show's romantic tension inverts history deliciously.