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?"
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?"