Haniwilliam7 Reviews

Mr. Robot: eps1.4_3xpl0its.wmv (2015) Season 1, Episode 5

Somebody made it up for last week's mistake

[10/10 · 23 July 2015]

After last week's episode, I was sad and angry at the very same moment. Sad because I thought that a show with a great potential is losing it and angry because of my searching for a new promising show is over and now I'm heading back to the very same point where I started.

This episode is summarizing everything you need from a TV show. Also it had the intense of a breakthrough which wasn't not so thrilling to the degree that makes you forget the other great aspects of the show. Plus seeing other deep aspects of people's life and going more in some of the characters' inner sides which made the show multidimensional instead of being built only on one hero's life. I still liked the show in its way of opening more and more clues for potential development in the near future without making the viewer loss concentration at the main storyline.

Offcourse, the show still maintaining it's amazing formula of camera work and sound tract which made me captured even in a boring episode like the previous one with all the hallucinations.

To summarize, this episode is the nearest one to the pilot and if anyone thinks of leaving after last episode, please reconsider your decision.

The Knick (2014–2015)

It's not just another medical drama

[9/10 · 16 August 2014]

As a physician, I watched the entire House MD, Scrubs, most of ER and grey's anatomy. As a dedicated reader, I read a lot in medicine history. I'd like to reassure everyone who is afraid of watching another regular medical drama, this show is about medical history with it's bizarre and crazy events (which truly happened allover the course of medicine History), but in the same time it's a perfectly crafted piece of art from attention to small details to acting, writing, camera angels, sound tract and of course directing by Soderbergh.

Dr. John Thackery is a character built on 1900s Dr. William Stewart Halsted who is considered the greatest physician of the whole Johns Hopkins group, also Throughout his professional life, he was addicted to cocaine and later to morphine, which were not illegal during that time. The beauty about Thackery character is that it's a true character with his addiction and the predicted mood changes (even if there is some alteration, the character frame still the same, not like the case of G. House who was clearly a fictional character).

I don't want to go in details about the technical elements of the show, but one look over Steven Soderbergh's traffic, Erin Brockovich or even Ocean's eleven will be more than enough to understand that you are facing a spectacular show which has more and more to offer with each new episode (no wonder it was renewed for a second season before airing the first one).

The Knick is a too much sophisticated show to be compared with other shows from the same genre and IMO it shouldn't be compared with them at all. My advice to every one: see the first season now because if you're a TV person you will end up watching it anyway.