![Jack Amiel, Michael Angarano, Michael Begler, David Fierro, Eric Johnson, Clive Owen, Molly Price, Reg Rogers, Perry Yung, Juliet Rylance, Eve Hewson, Zuzanna Szadkowski, André Holland, Maya Kazan, Leila Jean Davis, Melissa O'Donnell, Ying Ying Li, and Morgan Assante in The Knick (2014)](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMTQ5NzcyNDc5MV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwMDMyOTY5NjE@._V1_QL75_UX140_CR0,0,140,207_.jpg)
![Jack Amiel, Michael Angarano, Michael Begler, David Fierro, Eric Johnson, Clive Owen, Molly Price, Reg Rogers, Perry Yung, Juliet Rylance, Eve Hewson, Zuzanna Szadkowski, André Holland, Maya Kazan, Leila Jean Davis, Melissa O'Donnell, Ying Ying Li, and Morgan Assante in The Knick (2014)](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMTQ5NzcyNDc5MV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwMDMyOTY5NjE@._V1_QL75_UX140_CR0,0,140,207_.jpg)
Before “The Knick” scatters its characters to the four winds, Steven Soderbergh offers one last, literal reminder that he thinks outside the box. When coarse ambulance driver Tom Cleary (Chris Sullivan) seeks counsel from a priest, his feet protrude from the confessional, and though his voice remains as sharp as if he were beside us, Soderbergh replaces the traditional depiction of penance—faint light filtering through the partition, illuminating a face wracked by guilt—with a far more ambiguous one.
Via a series of long, still compositions, venturing into the barren aisles and empty pews, the camera edges toward the opposite end of the cavernous nave, returning to the image of the Irishman’s shoes only when he reaches his reason for being there. In his slightly forlorn brogue, Cleary asks for a prayer that the disgraced Sister Harriet (Cara Seymour) accept his hand in marriage: He wants her to be his wife,...
Via a series of long, still compositions, venturing into the barren aisles and empty pews, the camera edges toward the opposite end of the cavernous nave, returning to the image of the Irishman’s shoes only when he reaches his reason for being there. In his slightly forlorn brogue, Cleary asks for a prayer that the disgraced Sister Harriet (Cara Seymour) accept his hand in marriage: He wants her to be his wife,...
- 7/20/2016
- by Matt Brennan
- Indiewire
facebook
twitter
google+
The Knick season two finale concludes with a cavalier, reckless and lunatic act by Clive Owen's Thack...
This review contains spoilers.
2.10 This Is All We Are
A surgeon has a privileged vantage point from which to look at the human form. A living body, opened up for examination with all of its squelchy mechanics still in action, is quite a thing to see. It is perhaps less compelling once you have seen your first ten, or hundred or however many Dr John Thackery opened up in the course of his prematurely terminated career. It raises the question of what such a perspective does to a person’s view of humanity or even selfhood. At least I hope that it does. Any other explanation for Thackery’s ability to attempt his own bowel resection is frankly too disturbing to contemplate. His last words, this finale’s title...
google+
The Knick season two finale concludes with a cavalier, reckless and lunatic act by Clive Owen's Thack...
This review contains spoilers.
2.10 This Is All We Are
A surgeon has a privileged vantage point from which to look at the human form. A living body, opened up for examination with all of its squelchy mechanics still in action, is quite a thing to see. It is perhaps less compelling once you have seen your first ten, or hundred or however many Dr John Thackery opened up in the course of his prematurely terminated career. It raises the question of what such a perspective does to a person’s view of humanity or even selfhood. At least I hope that it does. Any other explanation for Thackery’s ability to attempt his own bowel resection is frankly too disturbing to contemplate. His last words, this finale’s title...
- 3/16/2016
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
![Jack Amiel, Michael Angarano, Michael Begler, David Fierro, Eric Johnson, Clive Owen, Molly Price, Reg Rogers, Perry Yung, Juliet Rylance, Eve Hewson, Zuzanna Szadkowski, André Holland, Maya Kazan, Leila Jean Davis, Melissa O'Donnell, Ying Ying Li, and Morgan Assante in The Knick (2014)](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMTQ5NzcyNDc5MV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwMDMyOTY5NjE@._V1_QL75_UX140_CR0,0,140,207_.jpg)
![Jack Amiel, Michael Angarano, Michael Begler, David Fierro, Eric Johnson, Clive Owen, Molly Price, Reg Rogers, Perry Yung, Juliet Rylance, Eve Hewson, Zuzanna Szadkowski, André Holland, Maya Kazan, Leila Jean Davis, Melissa O'Donnell, Ying Ying Li, and Morgan Assante in The Knick (2014)](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMTQ5NzcyNDc5MV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwMDMyOTY5NjE@._V1_QL75_UX140_CR0,0,140,207_.jpg)
With the conclusion of its sophomore season, "This Is All We Are," Cinemax's "The Knick"—one of the best shows on television, and certainly one of the most searingly beautiful—comes to the verge of breaking apart. Dr. John Thackery (Clive Owen) is dead by his own, arrogant hand; colleagues Everett Gallinger (Eric Johnson) and Algernon Edwards (André Holland) dabble, respectively, in eugenics and dreams; Cornelia Showalter (Juliet Rylance) leaves New York for now, or perhaps forever; Nurse Elkins (Eve Hewson) marries up, Herman Barrow (Jeremy Bobb) divorces down, and Harriet (Cara Seymour) and Tom (Chris Sullivan) settle in together. Only the sweet, sincere Bertie Chickering (the terrific Michael Angarano) remains more or less steady, though he's just lost his mother and his mentor in quick succession. Where does "The Knick" go from here? Read More: "Why Steven Soderbergh's 'The Knick' Is More Timely, and Better, Than.
- 12/23/2015
- by Matt Brennan
- Thompson on Hollywood
As she picks at her food in her parents' New York dining room near the end of the Gilded Age, the camera closes in on Cornelia Showalter (Juliet Rylance) as if to impart a secret. Reeling from the news that her onetime lover, Dr. Algernon Edwards (André Holland), is married, her downcast eyes are at the center of the image, but another, expressly political narrative is afoot just beyond the frame. "What the [Eiffel] Tower shows to me is progress, that even the impossible is possible," proclaims Cornelia's father, shipping magnate August Robertson (Grainger Hines). "I certainly benefitted from your progressive thinking," replies Edwards, the lone black surgeon at Robertson's Knickerbocker Hospital. "If that's the case, then why are [Algernon's] parents not invited to this lunch?" Edwards' wife, Opal (Zaraah Abrahams), asks pointedly, as the scene finally cuts away from Cornelia's face. "I suppose we have different...
- 11/30/2015
- by Matt Brennan
- Thompson on Hollywood
The Knick, Season 2, Episode 2, “You’re No Rose”
Written by Jack Amiel and Michael Begler
Directed by Steven Soderbergh
Airs Fridays at 8pm (Et) on Cinemax
As The Knick entered the second episode of its second season, it seems fitting that this is an hour which barters for the notion of second chances. Most notably in the case of Dr. John Thackery (Clive Owen), who makes a (somewhat) triumphant return to the Knick after his unorthodox treatment, but also in the cases of Sister Harriet (Cara Seymour) and Cornelia Showalter (Juliet Rylance), the former of which might escape the legal system yet, and the latter of whom has only just returned to New York herself.
However, with all of that said, it is Tom Cleary (Chris Sullivan) who shines best in The Knick‘s sophomore effort. While his idea to upgrade the Knickerbocker’s ambulance service may have initially seemed like a solid one,...
Written by Jack Amiel and Michael Begler
Directed by Steven Soderbergh
Airs Fridays at 8pm (Et) on Cinemax
As The Knick entered the second episode of its second season, it seems fitting that this is an hour which barters for the notion of second chances. Most notably in the case of Dr. John Thackery (Clive Owen), who makes a (somewhat) triumphant return to the Knick after his unorthodox treatment, but also in the cases of Sister Harriet (Cara Seymour) and Cornelia Showalter (Juliet Rylance), the former of which might escape the legal system yet, and the latter of whom has only just returned to New York herself.
However, with all of that said, it is Tom Cleary (Chris Sullivan) who shines best in The Knick‘s sophomore effort. While his idea to upgrade the Knickerbocker’s ambulance service may have initially seemed like a solid one,...
- 10/25/2015
- by Mike Worby
- SoundOnSight
![Jack Amiel, Michael Angarano, Michael Begler, David Fierro, Eric Johnson, Clive Owen, Molly Price, Reg Rogers, Perry Yung, Juliet Rylance, Eve Hewson, Zuzanna Szadkowski, André Holland, Maya Kazan, Leila Jean Davis, Melissa O'Donnell, Ying Ying Li, and Morgan Assante in The Knick (2014)](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMTQ5NzcyNDc5MV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwMDMyOTY5NjE@._V1_QL75_UX140_CR0,0,140,207_.jpg)
![Jack Amiel, Michael Angarano, Michael Begler, David Fierro, Eric Johnson, Clive Owen, Molly Price, Reg Rogers, Perry Yung, Juliet Rylance, Eve Hewson, Zuzanna Szadkowski, André Holland, Maya Kazan, Leila Jean Davis, Melissa O'Donnell, Ying Ying Li, and Morgan Assante in The Knick (2014)](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMTQ5NzcyNDc5MV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwMDMyOTY5NjE@._V1_QL75_UX140_CR0,0,140,207_.jpg)
I spent much of the first season of "The Knick" wondering why Steven Soderbergh had chosen this, of all shows, to be his next passion project. Here was an Oscar-winning director, doing his first TV project in a decade (following HBO's short-lived "K Street"), understandably being given carte blanche by Cinemax to direct, shoot, and edit every episode himself, and he had for some reason picked a show with a relatively novel setting (a New York hospital circa 1900) but filled with stock characters, including a drug-addled anti-hero in Clive Owen's surgeon John Thackery, and other devices familiar from the last 15 years of cable drama. It looked fantastic and had great performances from Owen, Andre Holland (as a black surgeon whose skills aren't properly appreciated in a less enlightened era), and others, but it was hard to shake the feeling that the writing (mainly by creators Jack Amiel and Michael Begler...
- 10/15/2015
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Hitfix
IMDb.com, Inc. takes no responsibility for the content or accuracy of the above news articles, Tweets, or blog posts. This content is published for the entertainment of our users only. The news articles, Tweets, and blog posts do not represent IMDb's opinions nor can we guarantee that the reporting therein is completely factual. Please visit the source responsible for the item in question to report any concerns you may have regarding content or accuracy.