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Is this it for The Knick?
It’s not right to say the horror story is over in the season two finale of The Knick, only that it’s relinquished its…
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The Knick goes to Hell
“Finally a good outcome,” Bertie says just before finding out Gallinger’s been “sterilizing idiots” and Thackery’s…
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The Knick is well on its way to becoming a haunted hospital
The horror continues in the latest installment of Dr. Soderbergh’s Tales Of Madness. “Not Well At All” takes its name…
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The Knick charity ball is the event of the season
The “Get The Rope” of season two, “Williams And Walker” weaves every story and thematic throughline of the season…
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Guess who’s coming to dinner on The Knick
That’s how you open an episode. You wave a disembodied eye in our face. Not an eyeball, mind. This is the facade of a…
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Halfway through the season, The Knick is in desperate need of reanimation
Halfway through The Knick’s handsome second season, I’m wondering if this is going anywhere. Where’s the drama? Thack’s…
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The other half of The Knick
Despite the fact that this episode contains a man accidentally setting himself on fire, Cornelia’s new secret nighttime…
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The discrete harm of the bourgeoisie on The Knick
It’s hard to tell whether our beloved Dr. Gallinger is uncomfortable or insecure in the company of eugenicists. Is he…
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A cyclops, a stranger, and an empty grave bring horror back to The Knick
In a way “Ten Knots” was easy. Almost all of the main characters were sequestered in separate storylines, give or take…
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Everybody’s just a body on The Knick
A detached retina, a bowl of teeth, a nose peeled back—the human body has been beaten down by 1901 on The Knick.…
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The Knick: “Crutchfield”
“Crutchfield” makes sawing the lady in half look like the entire trick. As the cast bows, there is no more Knick, it…
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The Knick: “The Golden Lotus”
Right on cue, this being the penultimate episode of the season, the big problems come to a head. We’ve known about…
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The Knick: “Working Late A Lot”
“Working Late A Lot” is shot through with a sacred-profane contrast that itself has both snarky and sincere uses. It…
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The Knick: “Get The Rope”
“Get The Rope” is a giant bucket of popcorn kind of episode, a ‘90s television event kicked back a century. The riot…
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The Knick: “Start Calling Me Dad”
Why does “Start Calling Me Dad” end with that scene? It’s such a funny, exciting, sad hour—the most I’ve felt watching T…
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The Knick: “They Capture The Heat”
“They Capture The Heat” takes its title from a meme, a little packet of information that passes through Edwards to…
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The Knick: “Where’s The Dignity”
“Where’s The Dignity” is the first time I feel the whirlwind of innovation that Thack talked about in the first…
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The Knick: “The Busy Flea”
The thing about television is that returns tend to diminish on all but the best shows. So it’s not a great sign that…
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The Knick: “Mr. Paris Shoes”
Every time I read or hear about The Knick my bile tube backs up again. Which is a personal problem but a cultural…
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The Knick: “Method And Madness”
Check it: The drugged-out muffle of gas and giggles plays our welcome to The Knick. A blink of an iris lets the sultry…