The Knick

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.

Year

2014

Movie time

58 min

Directed by

N/A

Cast

André Holland, Clive Owen, Jeremy Bobb

8.5/10

IMDB

01E05 - They Capture the Heat

Gangster Bunky Collier shows up at the Knick after one of his pimps is shot in the leg. Thackery is called in to perform the surgery and is surprised to find Edwards there at that early hour. Barrow uses the opportunity to get a reduction in what he owes. Edwards is still performing surgeries at night and experiments with silver thread as sutures. He's called to the Robertson home when his mother falls ill. Cornelia and Jacob Speight continue their interviews in the typhoid cases. After seeing a demonstration, Thackery argues in favor of acquiring an Edison x-ray machine, the latest diagnostic tool. August Robertson comes up with the cash. Dr. Gallinger's baby daughter is admitted to the hospital with what appears to be meningitis.

Date: 12 Sep 2014
IMDB id: tt3264160
IMDB rating: 8.3
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