The Knick 

A look at the professional and personal lives of the staff at New York's Knickerbocker Hospital during the early part of the twentieth century.

Creators:

Jack Amiel, Michael Begler

Stars:

Clive Owen, André Holland, Jeremy Bobb

Top Rated TV #199 | Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 7 wins & 29 nominations.

Cast

Series cast summary:
Clive Owen	...	Dr. John W. Thackery 20 episodes, 2014-2015
André Holland	...	Dr. Algernon Edwards 20 episodes, 2014-2015
Jeremy Bobb	...	Herman Barrow 20 episodes, 2014-2015
Juliet Rylance	...	Cornelia Robertson 20 episodes, 2014-2015
Eve Hewson	...	Lucy Elkins 20 episodes, 2014-2015
Michael Angarano	...	Dr. Bertie Chickering Jr. 20 episodes, 2014-2015
Cara Seymour	...	Sister Harriet / ... 20 episodes, 2014-2015
Eric Johnson	...	Dr. Everett Gallinger 20 episodes, 2014-2015
Chris Sullivan	...	Tom Cleary 19 episodes, 2014-2015
Grainger Hines	...	Captain August Robertson 15 episodes, 2014-2015
Zuzanna Szadkowski	...	Nurse Pell 15 episodes, 2014-2015
Maya Kazan	...	Eleanor 13 episodes, 2014-2015
Ylfa Edelstein	...	Nurse Baker 13 episodes, 2014-2015
Lucas Papaelias	...	Eldon Pouncey 12 episodes, 2014-2015
Leon Addison Brown	...	Jesse Edwards 11 episodes, 2014-2015
Charles Aitken	...	Henry Robertson 11 episodes, 2014-2015
Tom Lipinski	...	Phillip Showalter 11 episodes, 2014-2015
Jennifer Ferrin	...	Abigail Alford 10 episodes, 2014-2015
Happy Anderson	...	Jimmy 10 episodes, 2014-2015
Perry Yung	...	Ping Wu 10 episodes, 2014-2015
Frank Wood	...	Mr. Havershorn 10 episodes, 2014-2015
Ying Ying Li	...	Lin-Lin 9 episodes, 2014-2015
Suzanne Savoy	...	Victoria Robertson 9 episodes, 2014-2015
Richard James Porter	...	Monsignor Joseph Mills Lawlor 9 episodes, 2014-2015

Storyline

A look at the professional and personal lives of the staff at New York's Knickerbocker Hospital during the early part of the twentieth century. Every day they must deal with lack of funding, personal conflicts, egotism, racial tensions, personal vices, drug addiction, affairs, closed minds, dated nigh-medieval medical techniques and them and their experimental new techniques being misunderstood by most, in order to keep the hospital going and give the ill the help they need. The pressure is enormous and leaves its mark on the souls of most of them.

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Plot Keywords:

surgeon | doctor | 1900s | hospital | ambulance driver | 

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Taglines:

Modern medicine had to start somewhere. (Season 1)

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Genres:

Drama

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Certificate:

TV-MA

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English Latvian Mandarin Cantonese Hebrew Greek Italian Polish Spanish

Release Date:

8 August 2014 (USA)

Also Known As:

Kirurg

Filming Locations:

Clinton Avenue, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Anonymous Content

Technical Specs

Runtime:

58 min

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

While a guest on the National Public Radio program "Fresh Air," Dr. Stanley Burns (a photographic and medical historian who is a technical adviser to the TV series) said that the character of Dr. John Thackery (Clive Owen) is addicted to cocaine because Thackery is partly modeled on a real doctor from the period, William Halsted, who really was a cocaine addict. Halsted became addicted to cocaine because, Burns explained, it was common then for doctors to test new procedures and medicines on themselves, and cocaine, which was thought to be a good possible new surgical anesthetic, was not yet understood to be addictive. Dr. Christiansen, played by Matt Frewer, mentions that Halsted introduced him to the drug.

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Connections

Referenced in Superstore: Labor (2016)

User Reviews

Time travel, medical style

Most period shows suffer from the temptation to show ancient times through a modern lens. Writers seem to believe "Bah! life was dull back then, nothing new here, let's improvise some!" Anacronism and political correctness abound in period shows and such; not even Game of THrones dares to call Tyrion "a midget", it's always "dwarf" or "little people". Cut to The Knick. Yes, this was America in 1900. Corruption, racism, arrogance. No, the hero is not a nice guy and he's a cocaine addict. No, the director of the hospital is not an asshole, he's quite a nice chap, though he tends to steal money from the hospital's budget. No, the rich people are not arrogant, they are quite condescending to those poor little blackies. And the Negroes, no, they are not brave and indomitable people making the best of a racist society, they tend to be rough, stupid and weak. The nurses? White and dumb. The surgeons? Ignoramuses! The state authorities? Corrupt. THe patients? Doing quite well, considering they know that 'disease', in 1900, is synonymous to 'death sentence'. Three episodes down, zero survivors. Not bad! That's what I like in this show: they don't wash down the late 19th century cultural arrogance, they don't make racism look pretty, they don't fall into stereotyping the rich and powerful. Everybody here is a nice person, everybody has a moral fault, everybody is human. THe Knick is possibly the best show in decades. And Clive Owen rocks! Give that guy an Emmy already!