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The Knick is an American medical period drama television series on Cinemax created by Jack Amiel and Michael Begler and directed by Steven Soderbergh. The series follows Dr. John W. Thackery ( Clive Owen ) and the staff at a fictionalized version of the Knickerbocker Hospital (the Knick) in New York during the early twentieth century.
The Knick is an American television drama series on Cinemax created by Jack Amiel and Michael Begler, directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring Clive Owen.It looks at the professional and personal lives of Dr. John W. Thackery (played by Owen) and the staff at a fictionalized version of the Knickerbocker Hospital ("the Knick") in New York during the early part of the twentieth century.
Brandon Nowalk of The A.V. Club gave the episode an "A–" grade and wrote, "'The Best With The Best To Get The Best' gets at the heart of The Knick, or maybe its skeleton, with a panorama across a rotten establishment: educators teaching eugenics, a judge taking the law into his own hands, a preacher putting on a show, socialites pretending ...
'This Is All We Are' is a dark episode, especially for a finale, and very especially if this turns out to be the series finale now that the show has dropped in the ratings, lost the shock of the new, and says goodbye to its movie star lead. 'This is all we are' is almost a mission statement for The Knick, or so it has seemed." [7]
Mike Hale of The New York Times wrote, "The premiere episode of The Knick, the new Cinemax series directed by Steven Soderbergh, was bracketed by scenes in a hospital operating theater where perilous surgeries took their agonizing course. The first, a Caesarean section, was a disaster, killing both mother and child; the last, a bowel resection ...
Steven Soderbergh, already one of the most highly regarded filmmakers of his time, suddenly took on the role of near-prophet when Contagion became one of the most-streamed films during the pandemic.
The Knick is too well-crafted to be ever be outright bad or boring but 'Not Well At All' is about as close to bad as a show produced with such talent and purpose can be." [ 11 ] Robert Ham of Paste gave the episode a 9.6 out of 10 and wrote, "As we totter toward the end of this second season, we are now in a holding period, waiting for the ...
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