Thack is Back and better than ever.
Also: addicted to drugs.
Here’s our spoiler-free review…
The Knickis refreshingly unsubtle and entirely brutal.
How can something we all learned in the 6thgrade really be the primary motivator for such a complicated conflict?
Similarly, how can surgery in 1900 be as bloody and barbaric as we think it is?
Arent we usually wrong about everything?
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ThenThe Knicksteps up and cries Youre not wrong!
This shit is as bloody and terrifying as you think it is.
Now watch me reconstruct this chicks nose with my bare hands.
The Knickis broad, bold and stylized.
Not normally what weve become accustomed to from period dramas.
Its also wildly entertaining and deliriously fun.
The treatment for which in 1900 is, of course: heroin.
Things at the Knick are largely in a holding pattern.
Dr. Bertie Chickering (Michael Angarano) makes a bold change but is still the kid.
*I cant say enough good things about both the character of Eleanor and Kazans performance.
And Kazan captures the descent into madness with her frail frame and huge, doe-like eyes alone.
That doctors smoking in front of his patient?
Youre crazy, 60s!
It doesnt hurt, that the production work is absolutely stunning and totally believable.
Narratively,The Knickis also well-constructed show, thanks undoubtedly to showrunner Jack Amiel.
Somehow though Clive Owens depiction of John Thackery still feels underappreciated.
Thackery is the thrashing, blood-spurting heart ofThe Knick even when hes not onscreen.
Season two ofThe Knickis a big abscess.
Gross, excessive and primed to pop.
Rating:
4.5 out of 5
