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 #204 | Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 8 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:

1900s | surgeon | doctor | new york city | hospital | 

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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

In a June 2011 interview with the website newyorktheatreguide.com, André Holland said that his favorite actors were Mark Rylance and Daniel Day Lewis. Three years later, he started playing Dr. Algernon Edwards in The Knick; Edwards's love interest Cornelia Robertson is played by Juliet Rylance, Mark Rylance's stepdaughter.

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Connections

Featured in The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon: Clive Owen/Gabrielle Union/Neon Indian (2015)

User Reviews

Why Wasn't Successful!

I'm surprised that this Cinemax series wasn't more successful. It has everything going for it like solid writing, acting, and high quality production. Set in 1900 New York City, the Knick is short for the Knickerbocker hospital. Just like other businesses, hospitals have to make a profit and survive. The Knick is a 1900 version of St. Elsewhere about a struggling hospital. The first season has ten episodes starring Clive Owen as Dr. Thackeray, a renowned surgeon and secret drug addict. Andre Holland plays Dr. Algernon Edwards, an African American surgeon trained at Harvard and worked in Europe before coming to the Knick. Juliet Rylance plays Cornelia Robertson, the hospital administrator and daughter of its owner. Cara Seymour plays a nun with quite a secret that you won't see coming with complexity and devotion. The rest of the cast is stellar but I can't name them all here. Eve Hewson is perfect as the West Virginia transplanted nurse who knows and protects Thackeray. This series is almost flawless and perfect but I can't understand why I didn't see or know about it before. This series deserved some respect and accolades like other series.