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'The Knick' Recap: 'Start Calling Me Dad' on Cocaine

By Bryan Brandom • September 21, 2014

The sixth of the episode of The Knick featured ... wait for it ... some victories! All around! ("Wait, for characters in the show? But why?! " said everyone that worked on The Leftovers .)...

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'The Knick' Recap: 'They Capture the Heat' and Need to Shave

By Bryan Brandom • September 15, 2014

Through its first five episodes, The Knick 's most impressive feature is its presence. Not presence as in its charisma or stature, but presence, relevance. Few television shows remind society of itself the way Steven...

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Steven Soderbergh's 'The Knick' Premieres Friday on Cinemax

By Bryan Brandom • August 05, 2014

Director/writer/producer/Dean Pelton lookalike Steven Soderbergh's last foray into television, HBO's TV movie Behind the Candelabra , went well. Like, 11-Emmys-and-two-Golden Globes well. So it was both unsurprising and glee-inducing when he announced in May of...