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BelSports This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Juana what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

SnoopyStyle It's turn-of-the-century New York at the Knickerbocker Hospital. Dr. John Thackery (Clive Owen) is the aggressive chief surgeon and a drug addict. Dr. Algernon Edwards is a black surgeon struggling against racism in this exclusive field. Herman Barrow is the manager struggling with the finance. Lucy Elkins is the supportive young nurse. Cornelia Robertson is one of the directors from a wealthy family. Dr. Bertie Chickering is a young surgeon at the hospital.This is an unique vision from Steven Soderbergh. There are some out-there surgical scenes. The characters are compelling led by the terrific Clive Owen. I also like Eve Hewson. It does falter from covering too many characters and their side stories. Nevertheless, this is unique television. Somewhere along the negotiations, Soderbergh is unable to come up with an agreement. The show definitely deserves to continue despite the specific ending to the second season finale.

eryui This is another very gripping and flawless TV series. The direction is perfect. Wonderful costumes, sets and historical elements greatly credible. Actors are all very well chosen. Excellent photography. Slight musical interludes, subtle, enigmatic and enjoyable. The plot is truly informative and interesting, at least, to my personal taste.The series bring us at the time, dark, dirty and perfectly represented, where medicine and surgery began the first steps that would take them to today development. In this scenario around an hospital (The Knick) come to life, intertwined and developed, the characters' stories, all very distinct and credible. Stories of exciting, but also horrible, scientific medical research and experiments. Stories about love and betrayal, faith and secularism, discrimination and racism, disease, blackmail, drugs, corruption, death and murder. The series subtitle, sums up all this, very well: "Humanity is hard to cure". It is like a 16 hour impeccable movie with no frills and never boring. A masterpiece to me. Some scenes as realistic as they are, can be rather harsh for delicate stomachs, but this is not a defect to me, on the contrary adds value. The only negative note is that unfortunately ends, in contrast to other mediocre series that, instead, last for years.It is unique and original and I have not found any single reasonable reason not to give full marks.10/10 Very recommended.

Brave-Traveler.asf (Brave_TraveIor) Every single episode is directed by the legendary Soderbergh so with each frame you can feel the drama or tension shining through. It seems like it's all natural lighting in most scenes which makes it beautiful and authentic. And the real gem..Clive Owen. He was born to play Thackeray. The knick is an incredible series with too real medical scenes that I warn you can be hard for the weak stomachs. The second season has been just as good as the first. This is a must watch with an excellent cast and acting. The procedures are phenomenal and awe inspiring. Do your self a favor and watch this incredible show

azmark1887 After watching the pilot episode, I really wanted to love "The Knick." The acting was very good, the plot was interesting, the characters were compelling, and the atmosphere was intoxicating in its realistic depiction of a dark, dingy, dirty lower Manhattan in 1900. The doctors were struggling with life and death in their ungloved, bloody hands with little knowledge of what's going to work, and what's literally going to kill a patient in their operating theater while a dozen or so onlookers gawk in silence. Wow!And then Steve Soderbergh's juvenile taste for cheap, unnecessary shots of breasts, butts, men urinating, and hernia's so bad they overtake a man's genitalia began. The head surgeon is a foul-mouthed egomaniac and a cocaine addict who has a young nurse shoot him up in his scrotum, and the hospital's administrator is in hock to the local crime scum and in love with a prostitute who performs the dance of "the busy flea" while he jerks off in his pants. Is this really what's necessary for an interesting drama in 2015? They lost my interest by the sixth episode!I do like that the local nun smokes, drinks in a bar with a single man of ill morals and manners, and performs abortions for pay. That pretty aptly describes the historic hypocrisy of the Catholic Church.Good writers and a truly talented director could do so much with this story, but it's not in great hands. The concept is epic, but the product is schlock in the final analysis.Much like the first few episodes of "House of Cards," you thought you were watching an interesting, even enthralling drama capturing believable moments of real power, real weakness, and real life. Then they had the lead characters kill two people and engage in deviant sex acts, and I'm thinking, "Why am I still watching this trash?"