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The Knick

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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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Clive Owen
Dr. John W. Thackery
Andre Holland
Dr. Algernon Edwards
Jeremy Bobb
Herman Barrow

Season 2 Episode Guide See All

Episode 1

Ten Knots

Fri, Oct 16, 201555 mins

As Barrow and The Knick prepare to move uptown, Dr. Edwards lobbies the hospital board to be appointed permanent chief of surgery in Dr. Thackery's absence. Though his suspension has been lifted, Dr. Gallinger refuses to return as Edwards' subordinate, so he heads to Cromartie Hospital in hopes of getting Thackery to return to work. Lucy's attempts to make amends with Bertie are rebuffed; Cleary schemes to make extra money; Ping Wu demands regular medical checkups for his prostitutes; Speight attempts to trace the origins of a new plague; Cornelia nourishes a quarantined neighborhood in San Francisco.

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Awards

  • 2015 - Golden Globe - Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Drama - nominated
  • 2015 - Satellite Award - Best Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television - nominated
  • 2015 - Satellite Award - Best Television Series, Drama - winner
  • 2015 - WGA Award (TV) - New Series - nominated

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