Season 1 of The Knick wrapped up with its finale, “Crutchfield,” where many of the characters attempted to resolve their ongoing problems by opting for a quick fix. Like the get-rich-quick schemes spammed throughout all comments sections online, sometimes it’s obvious that the quick choice isn’t the best option. But this wasn’t obvious for our…
Dr. John Thackery (Clive Owen) has reached an all time low in “The Golden Lotus,” the penultimate episode of The Knick's debut season. Things are no better for Thackery, as the city-wide lack of cocaine has made his addiction unquenchable. Nurse Lucy Elkins (Eve Hewson) is still invested in Thackery, but how far will she…
In “Working Late a Lot”, the 8th episode of The Knick, Dr. Bertram Chickering, Sr. – Bertie’s father – wants his son to work anywhere but the Knick, Bertie wants to stay for one very clear, and very pretty reason, Cornelia’s engagement to Phillip seems to be the last thing on her mind, Nurse Lucy…
After watching the pilot of The Knick, I wrote in my review that making Dr. John Thackery a drug-addicted surgeon was a cliché, but making him a drug-addicted, racist surgeon was different, and thus made him unlikable. Even then, I knew that the time would come where Thackery grew as a person and he started…
The Knick debuted by giving its characters lofty secrets—ones that were too big and too interesting for them not to come to light. We’ve already seen some truths trickle through (Sister Harriet), but our main characters have managed to dodge discovery. But that changed in “Start Calling Me Dad” for Algernon. And if you could…
If there’s one point that The Knick has driven home time after time, it’s that early 20th Century surgery was not easy. If the actual process of cutting you open didn’t kill you, the recovery process certainly could, as antibiotics weren’t around to prevent infection. A surgeon of these times was similar to a baseball…
As Nurse Lucy Elkins learned in Episode 4 of The Knick “Where’s the Dignity”, it’s one thing to occasionally shoot up heroin in the private confines of your home and office, but it’s a completely different beast when you’re traveling to a seedy brothel to get your high. We’ve already discussed Dr. Thackery’s secret drug…
Last week on The Knick, we learned of the dirty secrets being kept by a handful of the main characters. This week, although it was close, none of them came to light just yet. But they will. And soon. We started off “The Busy Flea” with a look into the archaic origins of plastic surgery…
Last week, in The Knick’s premiere episode “Method and Madness”, resistance to change was the theme of the episode, and while none of the characters seemed ready to shift their beliefs in Episode 2, we did spend a lot of time learning about their secrets in “Mr. Paris Shoes”. Dr. John Thackery put it best:…
It’s only been one episode of The Knick, but if “Method and Madness” was any indication, there is a clear theme of the series: change, and the lengths various characters will go to encourage and prevent it. The setting of the show itself is a testament to that. New York City in 1900 was a…
