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After a radical* and transcendent* first season, Cinemax's acclaimed drama series, "The Knick" returns on Friday, October 16 at 10/9c. Steven Soderbergh* and Cliff Martinez* return to once again direct and score (respectively) all 10 episodes of the second season. Written by Jack Amiel, Michael Begler, and Steven Katz, the show stars Clive Owen as a brilliant doctor who works at the groundbreaking Knickerbocker Hospital in the early 1900s.
New York City, 1901: The Knick faces an upheaval, as Dr. John Thackerys absence (due to his hospitalization for cocaine addiction), a dearth of affluent patients, and financial missteps have led to the boards decision to shutter The Knickerbocker Hospital in favor of a new building uptown. In this world of corruption, invention and progress, everyone is searching for the new path that will help him or her survive. Whether its a path toward justice, freedom, love or just plain survival, nothing comes easy.
As relocation plans proceed, the gifted but under-appreciated Dr. Algernon Edwards jockeys to become Thackerys successor as chief of surgery, while fellow doctors, nurses, nuns and administrators grapple with challenges at work and in their private lives.
Cast
Main cast:
- Clive Owen as Dr. John Thackery, a brilliant but drug-addled surgeon.
- André Holland as Dr. Algernon Edwards - a gifted, Harvard-trained surgeon, who faces opposition and bigotry among his peers.
- Eve Hewson as Lucy Elkins. A once naïve young nurse, she has seen her personal and professional veneer hardened by heartbreak.
- Juliet Rylance as Cornelia Robertson, former head of the hospitals social welfare office and chair of the hospitals board of trustees.
- Jeremy Bobb as Herman Barrow, an obsequious, deceptively greedy hospital administrator.
- Michael Angarano as Dr. Bertram Bertie Chickering, Jr., who has grown from an eager surgeon-in-training to a talented doctor.
- Chris Sullivan as Tom Cleary, a jovial Irish ambulance driver.
- Cara Seymour as Sister Harriet, an Irish Catholic nun.
- Eric Johnson as Dr. Everett Gallinger, an aspiring, disgruntled surgeon.
- David Fierro as Jacob Speight, a health department inspector.
Recurring cast:- André Holland as Dr. Algernon Edwards - a gifted, Harvard-trained surgeon, who faces opposition and bigotry among his peers.
- Eve Hewson as Lucy Elkins. A once naïve young nurse, she has seen her personal and professional veneer hardened by heartbreak.
- Juliet Rylance as Cornelia Robertson, former head of the hospitals social welfare office and chair of the hospitals board of trustees.
- Jeremy Bobb as Herman Barrow, an obsequious, deceptively greedy hospital administrator.
- Michael Angarano as Dr. Bertram Bertie Chickering, Jr., who has grown from an eager surgeon-in-training to a talented doctor.
- Chris Sullivan as Tom Cleary, a jovial Irish ambulance driver.
- Cara Seymour as Sister Harriet, an Irish Catholic nun.
- Eric Johnson as Dr. Everett Gallinger, an aspiring, disgruntled surgeon.
- David Fierro as Jacob Speight, a health department inspector.
- Maya Kazan as Eleanor Gallinger, the troubled wife of Dr. Gallinger.
- Grainger Hines as Captain August Robertson, Cornelias father and the leading benefactor of The Knick.
- Tom Lipinski as Philip Showalter, Cornelias husband.
- Michael Nathanson as Dr. Levi Zinberg, chief surgeon at Mt. Sinai, and Thackerys rival.
- Perry Yung as Ping Wu, a Chinatown druglord.
- Arielle Goldman as Genevieve Everidge, a fiery young journalist.
- Andrew Rannells as Frazier H. Wingo, a renowned architect.
- Emily Kinney as Nurse Daisy Ryan.
- Grainger Hines as Captain August Robertson, Cornelias father and the leading benefactor of The Knick.
- Tom Lipinski as Philip Showalter, Cornelias husband.
- Michael Nathanson as Dr. Levi Zinberg, chief surgeon at Mt. Sinai, and Thackerys rival.
- Perry Yung as Ping Wu, a Chinatown druglord.
- Arielle Goldman as Genevieve Everidge, a fiery young journalist.
- Andrew Rannells as Frazier H. Wingo, a renowned architect.
- Emily Kinney as Nurse Daisy Ryan.
Videos and Articles
Season 2 videos:
Season 1 videos:
Season 1 videos:
Articles:
- Deadline - 'The Knick's Clive Owen On Dr. Thackery & Season Two: We Left Him In A Pretty Desperate State
- LA Times - Clive Owen on 'The Knick,' complicated roles and that mustache
- Gold Derby - Ellen Mirojnick on making costumes for 'The Knick' without being 'old-timey'
- Deadline - Andre Holland: 'The Knick' Addresses An Unresolved Part Of Our Cultural Heritage
- Hitfix - Cliff Martinez sends a warning: 'The Knick' season two will be 'darker'
Reviews
Matt Zoller Seitz said:First 4 eps of The Knick season 2 are unsurprisingly excellent, and Soderbergh's direction is next-level imaginative.
Entertainment Weekly said:Moments that should be personally affecting are often used to illustrate historical truths instead.... But these characters are still fascinating case studies for the mind-body connections we make as viewers: Theyre better appreciated with the brain than the heart.
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