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Bodies
Why this pick
Its pressured hospital setting, ethically compromised clinicians, and unsparing view of institutional failure echo The Knick’s appetite for medicine as a brutal, human frontier.
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SERIES2014 0h 52m / episode USA
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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Why this pick
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Why this pick
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Why this pick
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Set in downtown New York in 1900, 'The Knick' is a Cinemax drama series from Academy Award and Emmy-winning director Steven Soderbergh. It is centered on the Knickerbocker Hospital and the groundbreaking surgeons, nurses and staff who work there, pushing the bounds of medicine in a time of astonishingly high mortality rates and zero antibiotics.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Clive Owen
Dr. John Thackery
David Fierro
Jacob Speight
Eric Johnson
Dr. Everett Gallinger
Cara Seymour
Sister Harriet
Chris Sullivan
Tom Cleary
Michael Angarano
Dr. Bertram "Bertie" Chickering Jr.
Eve Hewson
Lucy Elkins
Juliet Rylance
Cornelia Robertson