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I liked the main character and binge watched the whole series, I wasn't disappointed. There's many layers to the plot and I don't think I could have predicted where it went. It's not just about revenge but also about a woman who is hell bent on revenge trying to juggle her family at the same time. She has her own personal issues too. I'd love to see another series in the future, I would certainly watch it. It's probably not aimed at the younger generation but an older one. It's more like midsummer murders on steroids. The scenery is beautiful and all the characters play their parts well. I enjoyed it.

This six part Austrian series is centred on Brunhilde Blum, the owner of a funeral home high in the Alps. In the opening scenes we see how her parents drowned while she slept on their boat's deck when she was much younger. Now she is married to a policeman who appears to be contacting another woman behind her back. The first she learns of this is when she finds his second phone after he is killed in an apparent hit-and-run accident. She manages to find the other woman and discovers something much worse than a suspected affair. It looks as though powerful people had reasons for wanting her husband dead. She is determined to get to the truth even though it puts her in danger.

I thought this was an impressive drama. The story didn't go quite as I expected, which was a pleasant surprise and, as well as an interesting mystery and revenge story, there are some delightfully dark comic moments. Brunhilde is a fine central character and Anna Maria Mühe does a great job in the role. The rest of the cast are solid too. The alpine location is scenic and adds to the cold atmosphere of the series. Overall I'd definitely recommend this to fans of European crime dramas.

These comments are based on watching the series in German with English subtitles.

Great mystery thriller series from Austria!

What a ride! Fast paced and never boring from start to the last episiode. I would watch it again.

Better than I have expected. I have read in a cinema news papers about this murder series and woooow. Wonderful pictures from Austrian alps and all the intriguing story is happening on high attitude. Great performance from Anna Maria Mühe who was top but also the other characters delivered all respectable work.

Director Nicolai Rohde did a good job too creating Hollywoodian moments. This was top entertaining and so congratulations again to all the staff. Don't miss these series if you like this kind of movies with revenge feelings. 7/10.

25.3.25:Season 2 sequel was again full of suspense and intriguing. Never boring and great performances from all the main actors.

7/10.

Just finished binge watching this from start to finish. Although a tad predictable (at least for me) I found myself geared in and fully engaged in the story and the acting even though it's not in English (watched the VO English version).

I liked how the main character is dark and the revenge factor is really the driving force with no holds barred. That's what makes it effective. It also is gory and it does evoke happiness when revenge is enacted.

Overall for a VO show I finished it in one sitting, completely engrossed in the plot. It won't blow you away but it's very well directed, the score is good and the actors carry it well. 7/10.

Summary

A very Austrian thriller that goes from black humor to moments of enormous violence and others that border on terror, with a charismatic protagonist who reactivates her dark facets. An interesting look at the genesis of certain adult criminal behaviors resulting from impunity.

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Brünhilde Blum (the very German Anna Maria Mühe) is the owner of a funeral home in a tourist town in the Austrian Tyrol. After the death of her policeman's husband in an alleged accident, the widow begins a relentless search for those she considers guilty.

Several common topics in Central European police officers reappear in this thriller: trafficking in women, pornography, powerful businessmen linked to tourist interests, police corruption, lodges.

But the strength of the series is its protagonist: Blum does not follow the "correct" path to clarify the death of her husband, but one that reactivates dark facets that were already part of her, with an attitude that is also related to someone accustomed to dealing with with corpses. Brünhilde is an investigative force and an amateur and for this reason she progresses somewhat stumbling (and with few concessions from the script), but always with enormous audacity, in a very Austrian story that goes from black humor to moments of enormous violence and others. Bordering on terror. And all with the beautiful winter setting of the Austrian Alps.

On the other hand, and last but not least, the series is an interesting example of the genesis of certain adult criminal behaviors resulting from impunity.

Totenfrau is a worthwhile series, but why so many strange mistakes in such a series? In the first episode, a Ducati is hit at high speed, killing the rider. The car, which would normally have been badly damaged by a collision with a motorcycle weighing more than 200 kilos, drives away as if nothing had happened. The motorcycle can be repaired and will be picked up by the victim's wife. We see the woman in her fashionable tweed jacket, which flutters open in the wind, without gloves on, riding off on the Ducati through a snowy landscape. Normally, as a motorcyclist, you stop in this situation after 5 kilometers because your fingers are frozen off and your throat is swollen. Otherwise reasonable series.

Woman of the dead (2022) is an average series having six episodes and a main story very similar to many others that have been previously explored in films. I chose to watch it due to its title, which raised my curiosity and the fact that is a short series. The main character i.e., the woman of the dead, is a funeral agent in a small town near Innsbruck (Austria), who owns a business that provides funeral services, inherited by her when her parents died (she was adopted). She is married to a police officer and has two children at school-age. Due to the death of her husband in a car-motorbike accident right at the beginning of the series, she starts a vengeful journey for finding the person responsible for the accident. Her investigation drives her into a complicated situation involving other people in town as well as brings into the scene a revival of past unsolved situations. The story has some holes and quite unrealistic situations that make me wonder if the woman of the dead is some kind of well-trained secret agent.

A brutal revenge investigation series with many layers of secrets (no spoilers)

investigative series + revenge that the plot looks simple. The villain is not difficult to guess from the beginning of the story. But the story has something different with the heroine's imaginative ability to talk to the corpse. And her actions unexpectedly surprised the audience in every episode. Chapters are not complicated. But hides many secrets that are more than the main plot tactfully until the final ending I recommend that you shouldn't miss it. And the more people who like brutal investigations This definitely answers the question.

Maybe it is just me but I cannot watch those shallow shows anymore.

First I was excited to see this is an Austrian move until soon I notice it follows the same blueprint like all Austrian movies do.

Small village, bad rich people who think they own everything, a crazy guy, police men who are corrupt/bad This is in literally all Austrian movies.

And then additionally that made no sense.

A small village in the mountains and people seem to not know each other very well?

A habitable hut in the woods... ok. But this hut should be known by everyone in the village. It is about impossible to hide for longer period of time in Austria if you don't know exactly where and how or are lucky.

A police man who doesn't report a crime. Ok, maybe not to the police in the same village. Maybe country capital then? Maybe to the newspaper who will be more than happy to bring such topics?

Mrs Blum, living in the same household with father in law and her two kids, does something completely unusual and brings someone unknown into her house to live there and the only thing she is willing to explain is: 'what is this? An interrogation?' Seriously? This is what she is replying to the father of your just diseased husband. Someone you are living under the same roof with for years and fully trust?

I am now at the start of the second episode and I am already fed up with those scripts that are so far from reality I could watch some Japanese cartoon.

To lose oneself in this story one has to put one's critical faculties to one side. It's just about impossible for the original accident to have been deliberate - how would anyone know to go past the house at that precise time?

Then we are asked to believe that not a single video surveillance camera records the comings and goings of Frau Blum as she goes about her investigations. I'm pretty amazed too that she has nary a bruise or broken nose despite getting badly beaten up twice.

Putting all that aside, this was an enjoyable romp. The scenery was stunning and the subplots were interesting and not just a graft-on. I can't say I was 100% hooked but I watched it all within a thirty-six hour period and was certainly not going to give up.

A miniseries will typically get a better review than a movie, because people who don't like a miniseries won't watch the whole thing, and will be less inclined to post a review. Since I didn't watch the whole thing, I won't give it a rating, but I'll explain why I stopped watching it.

The dialog is poor, and the acting deadpan. Perhaps it is better in German. I continued watching anyway, but when she found her husband's cell phone in the compartment in his bike, I stopped watching. How could the police possibly have overlooked that? Whether the police were trying to solve the crime or bury the evidence, there is no way that could have happened.

The series does not have a sexy protagonist in hig heels, but a good sporty woman with a real live.

She has a fulltime job, two kids and is happily married.

She has a wealthy background, because here family is the coroner of that area since a few generations.

All of a sudden here relaxed live changes dramatically due to an accident. Accident?

After that accident live is diffrent a some here in the forum think its strange, that she hops on the ducati and can really drive it at high speeds.

Well honestl, whats so special about that? Nothing, as she is not a "City biker", If you are grown up in the mountains and have been driving a motorbike when you where young, then you will defenitly know how to handle a bike, as the mountains dont excuse flaws and on the other hand, give you a lot of training ground when you are young.

The element of the motorbike was taken, to show the break in here live, after the strong cut due to the accident.

Until that moment, she was living a secure normal mom live, with low riscs, to keep the family save since the birth of her daughter.

Now she feels, she has to wake up and take things in here own hands again and she does that very impressive.

The series is absolutly worth the time watching it (including some dexter fun), Have fun!

..in the first season. However, in the second season it shines through that the writer of the novel is clearly narcissistic leaning (judging from interviews) which shows in inadequate and unrealistic motions, gesticulations of some of the characters.. Lack of compassion and therefore imagination will yield that result, logically. Pity because A. M. Mühe and her coworker (her coworker at the morgue) present excellent acting throughout the whole series.

Her distress and intent are believable, the scenery is close to perfect for the storyline, just the arches of tension could be a bit more at equilibrium with regular day to day life. The constant tension in the second season make the series a tad hard to watch. Yet, Mühe's acting along with her friend and coworker's on the show are a valid reason to give it a chance. Maybe next time, the writers could incorporate screen writers who are particularly good at compassion and therefore could rewrite emotional scences.

A surprisingly remarkable Austrian film. I've watched revenge movies before but this one is something new to offer by way of an intriguing storyline.

It's a great character study. Brunhilde Blum's journey from a quiet, contented wife and mortician to a remorseless avenger is compelling. You feel her quiet rage as she proceeds to hunt down, one by one, those respectable people responsible for the murder of her dear husband. All this taking place while she cares for her children and managing her funeral home. And the revenge is spectacular.

That she's able to talk to dead people as sounding board, whilst not a unique plot device, is darkly humorous as done here.

Quite competent actors. And the mountainscape as captured in film is short of mesmerizing.

Moralists might be disturbed by the message of the film as it seems to glorify impunity. But life is never easy; never black or white. Each is answerable ultimately for his/her actions.

I've rated this a 7; the first season was excellent, a 9. The second found the characters doing really stupid. There are too many to list here. The second season had a really stupid unrealistic character, the sister Tamar, supposed family enforcer. I've seen tougher Junior Highers. All the surprise, the suspense from the first season is gone in season 2. It became very predictable also.

Here's a question though, this serial killer Sarkisian thinks his sister is dead, says it, yet he doesn't kill the daughter? Just one example of how ridiculous season 2 got. I could give a dozen other examples.

I'd give season 2 only an 4 or 5, and the fight scene in episode five between the male and female cop was ridiculous. She'd have been toast long before see could stab him.

Then in episode 6, a badly wounded man, decides for no particular reason to kill a gas station attendant because, I suppose, he saw you pilfering first aid supplies? Colossally stupid and ridiculous! They don't even bother to show it on film probably because viewers would wonder how a man that was shot in the leg could do easily take down a perfectly healthy man, who I'm sure went down meekly because the plot demanded it.

Stop with season 1.

This is hands down one of the best.shows I have watched in a while. It had me on the edge of my seat one minute, peeking behind my hands another, cringing in disgust at some scenes and in disbelief at others. It's a well crafted example of 'shocking cinema' with a revenge plot that gets going quickly. The cinematography, editing and performances are superb. The camera movement and angles heighten the suspense. All the characters are believable even when some scenes are incredible / incredulous. It's interesting how they've shown some detail of what goes on at the undertakers to make corpses presentable. I don't think I've seen that sort of detail in film before, but it sets up the later revenge scenes very well as you have no idea just how far things will go. The 'action' revenge scenes are so well set up: again you have no idea where they are going, or who is going to come out on top, so the surprise element is shockingly strong. Well done to all involved. I hope you get the credit you are due. Amazing!!!

Well.. I was having fun watching this show and I thought it's awesome that it features a diabetic type 1 character. That's the reason for my 6 rating. But, like any other show/movie, people don't know the basics. Why every time there is a "low blood glucose" alert they shot insulin? Why do they get the application sites wrong? And how to count units also wrong? Like everything is wroooong!!! Gosh..it isn't too hard to do a little basic research on how this disease works... a quick google/chat gpt can help... I can ignore some of the bad plot, things that don't make much sense and everything. But that? No.. so over it.. do it right or better to not do it at all.

Stumbling upon this show on Netflix, I found the description interesting, as it made mention of the main character's ability to converse with the dead and it is showed off right away in the first episode. "Oh", I thought, "So I guess she is going to use that ability to find out who is responsible for the events of the murder... right?".

Yeah, no. The whole talking to dead people ability factors so little into the overall story you could edit all of those scenes out and it would barely put a dent in the overall episode lengths. They also almost never offer up any genuine insight to the point where it honestly just seems like she's talking to herself through them.

I still found the show overall entertaining, especially the main character who is absolutely unhinged at times in her investigation. Just know that if you are expecting a show like iZombie where the main character is able to gleam insights from murders and whatnot from dead people through her abilities, you'll be sorely dissapointed.