The Knick: The Complete First Season (Digital Copy + Blu-ray)Set in downtown New York in 1900 — The Knick is a groundbreaking new scripted drama from Oscar® and Emmy®-winning director Steven Soderbergh starring Oscar® nominee Clive Owen, who also rec...
Very good acting and coverage of the breadth of surgery and the healthcare system at the turn of the century in NYC!
This series is a sleeper, as I'd never heard of it before catching a couple of episodes on tv, but it really packs a wallop with great acting and fantastic plots.
Superb acting, fantastic plot twists, fascinating historical context - just an all round enthralling series
n’t think I could like this show anymore than I already do, it’s completely engrossing and a must-watch.
The foundation for all of this is Steven Soderbergh’s brilliant direction, which draws excellent performances from a uniformly top-notch cast: all of human life is here; the sordid, the glorious, the ‘sacred and the profane’.All in all, it’s informative, exciting and educative and makes for exhilarating entertainment.
With Steven Soderbergh’s guiding every episode as Director, production values are top-notch with some beautiful sets and well done but understandably limited outdoors shots
n’t think I could like this show anymore than I already do, it’s completely engrossing and a must-watch.
The acting is top notch and the story lines are compelling.
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Soderbergh’s a true auteur, directing all ten episodes of the first season and making his mark on contemporary television and, in a larger sense, the Golden Age of Television
Focusing on the birth of the modern medical age the Knick is based on the Knickerbocker hospital in the early 1900’s as well as the staff that runs it.
The stories rely a bit too much on dramatic irony and Soderbergh's direction is distractingly "art on a budget" (he shoots many scenes without traditional coverage), but Owen and the equally wonderful Andre Holland create a simmering, intense rivalry/friendship that pays off like few other pairings in this so-called "Golden Age" of television
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The overarching story, of course, follows Dr. Thackery who balances a chemical dependency (cocaine…and then some) with his drive to conquer death and his invention of new techniques to perform surgeries (like a C-section) that have historically resulted in death due to well-documented but seemingly uncombatable factors
I read on a UK science museum site that " It was not until the development of safe blood transfusion and antibiotics such as penicillin in the early 1940s that surgery became relatively safe
-)Most of all, I enjoyed the incredible use of surgical equipment (original?reproductions?) and the realistic "surgeries"
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In summation, I would highly recommend the Knick, especially to lovers of good character dramas or to people with interests in medical practices or public health
While I found some parts of the drama useful, I found it dark, depressing, and an overall downer at times
I enjoyed the hint of history about the hospital and the excellent drama!
I respect that they show medicine in a realistic clinical tone,yet a sense of humor and irony,and the drama is tense and exciting
excellent period drama; set design was superb as was the acting.
On the plus side is the Clive Owen playing the main lead of Dr. John Thackerry
The key character, Dr. John Thackery (Clive Owen,) becomes chief of surgery after his teacher and mentor kills himself in despair after losing his twelfth mother and child in an ongoing futile attempt to save patients giving birth with placenta previa.
I love love love Clive Owen, but his whispery, gravelly voice was a little hard to understand at times.
The fine cast includes Michael Angarano, Juliet Rylance, Eric Johnson, Cara Seymour, David Fierro and other fine actors
The foundation for all of this is Steven Soderbergh’s brilliant direction, which draws excellent performances from a uniformly top-notch cast: all of human life is here; the sordid, the glorious, the ‘sacred and the profane’.All in all, it’s informative, exciting and educative and makes for exhilarating entertainment.
Unlike Halsted, he appears to have come from a lower class background and advanced in medicine through the apprenticeship program that still existed at the time rather than attending medical school, although we never fully learn his background.“The Knick” features an outstanding supporting cast, almost all British and Irish actors.
n’t think I could like this show anymore than I already do, it’s completely engrossing and a must-watch.
Despite this it does offer a very entertaining cast of characters that it continually develops at a very entertaining point in time for medicine.
Clive Owen plays Dr John W. Thackery, a driven man: a man obsessed with being the best; a surgeon at the top of his game displaying his unmatched skill and the arrogance that comes from routine success when the stakes are nothing less than life and death.
Dr. John Thackery, played by Clive Owen, battles drug addiction and ego as he strives to become one of the most renowned surgeons of his time
Clive Owen stars as the cocaine addicted brilliant surgeon Dr. John W. Thackery in a new television series THE KNICK - a study of the professional and personal lives of the staff at New York's Knickerbocker Hospital during 1900
Owen’s character, Dr. John Thackery, is the a brilliant surgeon trying to become one of the best surgeons but deals with his own personal addiction problems; yet the show does not fall into stereotypical flatness seen in other shows
Clive Owen stars as the cocaine addicted brilliant surgeon Dr. John W. Thackery in a new television series THE KNICK - a study of the professional and personal lives of the staff at New York's Knickerbocker Hospital during 1900
This series is a sleeper, as I'd never heard of it before catching a couple of episodes on tv, but it really packs a wallop with great acting and fantastic plots.
n’t think I could like this show anymore than I already do, it’s completely engrossing and a must-watch.
Then the show really, really picks up steam as the plot gets darker and darker in episodes 7,8, 9 and 10.
If you enjoyed Downton Abbey for reasons other than the romantic plot lines (they just didn't pull me in), you will likely enjoy this show, too.
Superb acting, fantastic plot twists, fascinating historical context - just an all round enthralling series
Sewing together familiar characterizations and dynamics from tried and true shows like Mad Men, House, and more, The Knick creates a number of different worlds within its prestigious but underfunded hospital and ties them together in the operating room, the bloody beating heart of the series
Wow, The Knick is just on another level, and It's by far one of the best new TV shows in years!
In summation, I would highly recommend the Knick, especially to lovers of good character dramas or to people with interests in medical practices or public health
Set in NYC at the turn of the 20th Century, doctors & nurses struggle to aid the sick at the Knickerbocker Hospital (The Knick)
, The Knick goes to some wild extremes, but the pay-off always comes in the form of more character development that keeps The Knick’s slow-burning flame at a steady intensity
He is brilliantly haunting as Dr. John W. Thackery in one of the best performances of his career
The series focuses on the operating theater at the Knickerbocker Hospital and the views are suggestive of the great paintings - Rembrandt's Dr. Tulp's Anatomy Lesson or Thomas Eakins's The Clinic of Dr Gross
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The Knick: The Complete First Season (Digital Copy + Blu-ray)Set in downtown New York in 1900 — The Knick is a groundbreaking new scripted drama from Oscar® and Emmy®-winning director Steven Soderbergh starring Oscar® nominee Clive Owen, who also received a Golden Globe nomination for this series
The Knick centers on the Knickerbocker Hospital (dubbed The Knick), which faces a major upheaval due to poor finances and an exodus of wealthy patients
The one remaining star is Dr
Thackery (played by Clive Owen) who along with the hospital staff of surgeons, nurses and other personnel must struggle to keep both themselves and the hospital going.]]>