One of my all time favorites.

A brilliant film that helped define a genre

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

wow, the contrasting soundtrack is barely discussed by reviews. It was unique and contrasting, been modern against a period series. Just red the Rolingstone mag article, they didn't brought how important the sounds and music was to make the show so atmospheric and successful .Thanks for those 2 seasons to all involved!

While extremely well acted, there are story lines based on actual, historical fact (both period and medical).Etched in my mind is one particular show whereby the character was admitted to a mental institution. Upon a visit by her husband, a surgeon, she opened her mouth to reveal a toothless, bloody mouth.All of her teeth had been extracted!!!It turns out that was the thought process of the time by Dr. Henry Cotton was that pulling teeth would cure mental illness. And, if it didn't, he would remove other parts of the body as well! Research on my part revealed this was historically correct, albeit a practice that makes one cringe. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/10/the-tragic- sadistic-mental-illness-treatment-from-the-knick-is-real/381751/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cotton_(doctor)

I'm surprised that this Cinemax series wasn't more successful. It has everything going for it like solid writing, acting, and high quality production. Set in 1900 New York City, the Knick is short for the Knickerbocker hospital. Just like other businesses, hospitals have to make a profit and survive. The Knick is a 1900 version of St. Elsewhere about a struggling hospital. The first season has ten episodes starring Clive Owen as Dr. Thackeray, a renowned surgeon and secret drug addict. Andre Holland plays Dr. Algernon Edwards, an African American surgeon trained at Harvard and worked in Europe before coming to the Knick. Juliet Rylance plays Cornelia Robertson, the hospital administrator and daughter of its owner. Cara Seymour plays a nun with quite a secret that you won't see coming with complexity and devotion. The rest of the cast is stellar but I can't name them all here. Eve Hewson is perfect as the West Virginia transplanted nurse who knows and protects Thackeray. This series is almost flawless and perfect but I can't understand why I didn't see or know about it before. This series deserved some respect and accolades like other series.

After watching the pilot episode, I really wanted to love "The Knick." The acting was very good, the plot was interesting, the characters were compelling, and the atmosphere was intoxicating in its realistic depiction of a dark, dingy, dirty lower Manhattan in 1900. The doctors were struggling with life and death in their ungloved, bloody hands with little knowledge of what's going to work, and what's literally going to kill a patient in their operating theater while a dozen or so onlookers gawk in silence. Wow!And then Steve Soderbergh's juvenile taste for cheap, unnecessary shots of breasts, butts, men urinating, and hernia's so bad they overtake a man's genitalia began. The head surgeon is a foul-mouthed egomaniac and a cocaine addict who has a young nurse shoot him up in his scrotum, and the hospital's administrator is in hock to the local crime scum and in love with a prostitute who performs the dance of "the busy flea" while he jerks off in his pants. Is this really what's necessary for an interesting drama in 2015? They lost my interest by the sixth episode!I do like that the local nun smokes, drinks in a bar with a single man of ill morals and manners, and performs abortions for pay. That pretty aptly describes the historic hypocrisy of the Catholic Church.Good writers and a truly talented director could do so much with this story, but it's not in great hands. The concept is epic, but the product is schlock in the final analysis.Much like the first few episodes of "House of Cards," you thought you were watching an interesting, even enthralling drama capturing believable moments of real power, real weakness, and real life. Then they had the lead characters kill two people and engage in deviant sex acts, and I'm thinking, "Why am I still watching this trash?"