Freud

It's not what I expected. I thought it would be a biopic. It's a crime show with elements of fantasy and horror. I only started to enjoy it, when I stopped seeing it as show depicting the life of Freud. Actually I think it would have been better if they just used fictional characters instead. What I really liked about the show was the look of it. The costumes, the backgrounds, the lightning. Everything looked nice. They also chose actors with distinctive faces. The show had good ideas, that I haven't seen used in a fantasy show. There were scenes, that were well made. Still they could have explored them more. The acting wasnt that great. The actor, who played Freud seemed quite unnatural. I somehow couldn't find myself caring for our protagonist. I found Alfred Kiss and his story much more engaging. Too many aspects of the story were glanced over. There should have been more about the Hungarian couple. Why have Schnitzler in the story if you forget about him and have him back for a few seconds when its convenient?

But it is still a great show, with a nice plot and twists. As I said in the title, it's obviously not about the actual Freud. I would give it a 9 or 10 if they just didn't use his name.

I wonder why so many have expected a direct out of the book biography just because the name of the show is "Freud". Even Freud believed that every individual is unique and must be treated that way.

Cinema is personal to the creators and interpreting for the viewers should be on experience of the senses. Although I don't judge whomsoever disapproves, I also don't agree with them.

The series is engaging, dark and deep. To someone who didn't know 'Freud' personally or through the works that he chose to publish.. ( Martha exclaims 'What's not in the book is of no importance' or something like that) we must applaud the creative genius of the script and the actors to have embodies the roles so well!

It is NOT a biography, it is a Crime genre take on the basis of the working of the mind through Freud's eyes and boy! The show Beautifully brings to light the synchronicity between mythology, the spiritual world and psychology!

Watch it with a very open mind and you'll find it to be really fresh. Like all works of art that's forward for it's time, it's cathartic in it's own right!

Don't expect to watch a biography of Sigmund Freud but rather a fictional thriller starring a (young) Freud starting in Vienna, constantly mocked in a time of political unrest... The photography is beautiful and somewhat reminded me of "Penny Dreadful" without its actor's excesses or the abuse of CGI. If this series is taken as a thriller featuring the character of Sigmund Freud and not as some biopic...it is very enjoyable. However at some time I would love to see a series/motion picture about Freud -something like "A Dangerous Method" minus Jung...please!!

A literal biopic of Freud it's not...Freudian it is. An engaging, escapist allegory on the birth of psychoanalysis - covering many of Freud's ideas on dissociation, regression, desire, catharthis and so forth. I really enjoyed it as a diverting work of magic realism in an alternate Vienna with wonderful costumes and sumptuous gothic revival sets.