The Knick

Thack Returns To The Knick To Start A Research Project On...Addiction?

That is, other than the informal 'research project' on addiction he's been independently conducting for the past few years. As we rank the episode's decisionmakers from best to worst, where will he end up? 2015.10.24

A Petition Urges NBC To Revoke Its Invitation For Donald Trump To Host Saturday Night Live

We're looking at recent instances of TV wearing its Bad Idea Jeans in Lunch And A Show! 2015.10.19

So The Knick Is Saying Heroin's Not A Good Cure For Cocaine Addiction?

And more not-quite-burning questions about the Season 2 premiere of The Knick. 2015.10.17

Bitter Pills

The first season of The Knick features lots of doctoring, but very few actual cures. 2014.10.18

Can We Get A Face Off Challenge Showing How A Makeup Artist Could Make Clive Owen Look So Terrible?

And other not-quite-burning questions to carry us into the season finale. 2014.10.11

All Babies Are The Same, According To One Doctor

Gallinger's lost a baby. Time for a little problem-solving, man-style! 2014.10.04

It's A Worse Day Than Usual To Be A Turn-Of-The-Century Hospital Nurse

Nurse Elkins has a bad day, but she gets through it! Let's give her a hand. 2014.09.27

Typhoid Mary's Got Nothing On Cornelia Robertson

Cornelia's a talented heiress with a strong social conscience and a future as a lucha libre. Not bad! 2014.09.20

Is An Unwanted Pregnancy Worse Than A Kidney Cyst?

We're counting down the physical ailments of the latest The Knick from least to most terrible! (And in answer to the question posed by the headline: yes.) 2014.09.13

From Foes To Frenemies: The Cleary And Sister Harriet Story

The carnage of botched abortion makes for strange...well, not bedfellows. But...something. 2014.09.06

Battle Of The Hospital-Integrating Doctors

One's a white doctor at a black institution. The other is a black doctor at a white institution. Which is doing it better? 2014.08.16

Battle Of The Bearded Mentors

Two loose cannons of the '80s have grown into elder statesmen in period cable drama of the '10s. When compared side by side, which comes out ahead? 2014.08.09

Is The Knick Bloody Great Or Just Bloody?

Clive Owen stars in an historical medical drama produced by Steven Soderbergh. Maybe worth checking out? 2014.08.08