The Knick: In Need of a Knickervention

It’s incredibly frustrating when a once-great television show seems to stumble along the way. Last week, The Knick took a step back from its series forward momentum and spent the hour growing the characters and giving us time to wallow in the period detail. This week’s episode, “They Capture the Heat,” takes a similar leisurely …

The Knick: Lights Out

After last week’s attention-grabbing, gory pilot episode, Steven Soderbergh’s The Knick settles into more of a standard routine in its second outing. “Standard” for this show, however, just means they’ve cut back on some of the more intense (re: stomach churning) surgical scenes. The show still retains the brilliant anachronistic touches that Soderbergh employed in …

The Knick: Better off Dead

Having (temporarily?) given up feature films, Oscar-winning director Steven Soderbergh has branched out to television to pursue the kinds of projects typically not funded by major Hollywood studios. He along with cast and crew were showered with Emmys last year for Behind the Candelabra, the Liberace biopic widely praised for its unsparing and honest portrayal …