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‘The Knick’ Season 2: TV Review. With its most famous surgeon in rehab (before there was rehab) and planning an expensive move uptown, the Knickerbocker Hospital tries to find its footing in 1901.
The Knick is not only an ambitious, intriguing and slow-burning new endeavor from Cinemax; it’s also an interesting gambit from the channel’s more famous offspring, HBO.. Created by Jack Amiel ...
The Knick is about a lot of sexy things, but it's also full of real-world historical science. The discoveries and inventions are real—which is both fascinating and horrifying.
We’re seven episodes into the second season of “The Knick,” and the odd-couple relationship between rough-hewn ambulance driver Tom Cleary (Chris Sullivan) — he of the thick Irish brogue ...
Top-notch surgeon John Thackery doesn't mind Knickerbocker Hospital's rougher edges, because he gets free rein to practice cutting-edge medicine. "It's like me and Cinemax," Oscar-winning director ...
The Knick, set in New York City in 1900, opens inside an opium den, where a prostitute wakes a bleary-eyed Dr. John Thackery, played by Clive Owen, who stumbles into daylight just in time to catch ...
The Knick is a gripping TV show set in a hospital, but it's not your typical medical drama. The show, back for its second season on the Cinemax cable network, is set in New York's Knickerbocker ...
Don’t get syphilis. That’s the takeaway from “The Busy Flea,” this week’s episode of The Knick. Sure, a bunch of other things happen, but really, what leaves more of an impression than ...
Cinemax has canceled the Clive Owen period medical drama “The Knick” after two seasons. The network announced on Thursday that it would not be moving forward with more episodes of the series ...
For a series like "The Knick," set in the brutal world of early 20th century New York City, there's a danger in making the past look too seductive — "Downton Abbey" this is not.