Network: Cinemax
Episodes: 20 (hour)
Seasons: Two
TV show dates: August 8, 2014 — December 18, 2015
Series status: Cancelled
Performers include: Clive Owen, Andre Holland, Jeremy Bobb, Juliet Rylance, Eve Hewson, Michael Angarano, Chris Sullivan, Cara Seymour, Eric Johnson, David Fierro, and Matt Frewer.
TV show description:
A period drama, this TV show is set in downtown New York City in 1900. It revolves around the Knickerbocker Hospital and the groundbreaking surgeons, nurses, and staff who work there. They push the boundaries of medicine in a time of astonishingly high mortality rates and zero antibiotics.
A brilliant surgeon, Doctor John Thackery (Clive Owen) is pioneering new methods in the field, despite nursing his secret and severe addiction to cocaine. He leads a team of physicians that include his protégé Doctor Everett Gallinger (Eric Johnson); young Doctor Bertie Chickering Jr. (Micahel Angarano); and Doctor Algernon Edwards (André Holland), a promising surgeon of color who’s been recently thrust upon him.
Others at the hospital include benefactor Captain August Robertson and his daughter Cornelia (Juliet Rylance); surly ambulance driver Tom Cleary (Chris Sullivan); fresh-faced nurse from the country Lucy Elkins (Eve Hewson); crooked hospital administrator Herman Barrow (Jeremy Bobb); and Sister Harriet (Cara Seymour), a nun who isn’t afraid to speak her mind.
There’s also health inspector Jacob Speight (David Fierro), a coarse man who’s not above taking a bribe to steer a patient to a particular hospital.
Episode #20 — This Is All We Are
Thackery eschews Zinberg’s advice at Mt. Sinai and opts for a dramatic, and risky, alternative course of action. Cornelia confronts Henry about his role in the family business; Barrow defends his actions at the hospital construction site; Gallinger considers a job opportunity; Cleary refuses to give up on Harriet.
First aired: December 18, 2015.
What do you think? Do you like The Knick TV show? Do you think it should have been cancelled or renewed for a third season?
I thought it was a great show. Owen is great in it. Had to stop watching with all the Catholic bashing. It’s to bad too.
love it!!!!
VERY GREAT SHOW TO WATCHED AND VERY INTERESTING TOO. I WILL
CONTINUE TO WATCH IT SO PLEASE DONNOT CANCEL IT
All round brilliant series…How could it miss with Owen and Soderbergh at the
helm. I can’t handle the deluge of inane reality shows so…for goodness sake don’t cancel…!!
This show is great can’t wait for next Friday.
It’s a very interesting show. Amazing to see how fat medicine has come. It amazes me how oblivious they were to infection control. It looks like the Black Plague is about to show it’s face ……!!!
This is an awesome show. Everything is done incredibly well, including the acting, the realism of the times, the camera work, the plots, the characters, etc etc . I wish all shows on TV could be this interesting. Please keep this on the air. We are starved for good entertainment and intellectual stimulation.
I love the series. I hope it does not get cancelled, because it does show how far medicine had come. Even though tough to see. I now know why my great grandmother didn’t survive a simple appendectomy. It does give insight to our lives before. Great move Cinemax .
I love the show! Shows the really secretive things people do that get lost in the glory of medical procedures. Please don’t cancel.
One of the best cast and written shows on TV. Don’t know about historical accuracy but entertaining plot and characters.
Loved It! Extremely interesting characters and historical drama !
The first episode was excellent! I love shows that show how soft we are in todays times. They performed a cesarian section in the first episode. The mother bled to death and the child died. It was hardcore back then. The black doctor knows more than half of the white ones and can not get a break. He has to struggle to prove himself. Meanwhile the head physician has a drug problem. i look forward to more episodes.
I LOOK FORWARD TO THE REST OF THE SEASON. I WAS TOTALLY ENTERTAINED. CLIVE OWEN IS FABULOUS AS USUAL, AND THE SUPPORTING CAST IS SUPERB. BASED ON THE FIRST EPISODE, I SAY SEASON TWO IS A GIVEN.
LOVED IT — WILL CONTINUE TO WATCH. LOVE THE STORY LINE & THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND PHOTOS.
I REALLY ENJOYED THIS SHOW & WILL CONTINUE TO WATCH IT. WELL ACTED & WELL WRITTEN. IT KEPT MY INTEREST & I LOVED THE BACKGROUND PHOTOS SHOWING HISTORY OF THE PERIOD. I WILL KEEP WATCHING FOR SURE.
WATCHED IT AND ENJOYED IT IMMENSELY…LOVE CLIVE AND WILL WATCH ANYTHING HE IS IN, HOWEVER, NOT USUALLY LIKING PERIOD PIECES. HOWEVER, .I ENJOYED IT AND WILL CONTINUE TO WATCH…