The kink

Television series
Original title	The kink
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Year (s)	2014-2015
Episodes	20 in 2 seasons
genre	Hospital series , drama
idea	Jack Amiel ; Michael Begler
music	Cliff Martinez
First broadcast	August 8, 2014 (USA) on Cinemax
German-language ; first broadcast	November 25, 2014 on Sky Atlantic HD
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The Knick is an American television series of the pay-TV channel Cinemax , which under the direction of Steven Soderbergh is with Clive Owen is cast as a leading man. The fictional plot of the series takes place in the Knickerbocker Hospital in New York City ("the Knick") and shows the professional and private life of Dr. John W. Thackery and colleagues in the early 20th century . The series was created and written by Jack Amiel and Michael Begler. The first broadcast took place on August 8, 2014 at Cinemax. In Germany, the series was first seen on Sky Atlantic HD and later on FreeTV on ZDFneo . The Knick has two seasons.

action

Knickerbocker Hospital in New York City works with innovative surgeons , nurses, and staff who must overcome medical limitations to prevent the high mortality rate. The series not only focuses on the daily work in the hospital, but also on the personal life of the staff.

Dr. John Thackery (based in part on a historical figure, William Stewart Halsted ), the newly appointed chief surgeon, combats his cocaine and opium addiction with his ambition for medical discovery and prestige among his peers. Meanwhile, Dr. Algernon Edwards, a dark-skinned Harvard graduate, fighting for respect in the predominantly white hospital and the racially charged city.

In order to secure the economic existence of the hospital, wealthy patients are to be won over without compromising the quality of care.

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The series was set to music at Studio Hamburg Synchron based on dialog books and directed by Hilke Flickenschildt .

Role name	Actress	Voice actor
Dr. John Thackery: Chief surgeon at Knickerbocker Hospital	Clive Owen	Tom Vogt
Dr. Algernon Edwards: Colored surgeon with experience from Europe	André Holland	Jan-David Rönfeldt
Herman Barrow: Manager of the Knickerbocker Hospital	Jeremy Bobb	Konstantin Graudus
Cornelia Robertson: daughter of the owner of the Knickerbocker Hospital	Juliet Rylance	Eva Michaelis
Lucy Elkins: Foster and operating room nurse, temporarily mistress of Thackery	Eve Hewson	Mia Diekow
Dr. Bertram "Bertie" Chickering, Jr .: Young surgeon	Michael Angarano	Tobias Schmidt
Tom Cleary: Ambulance driver	Chris Sullivan	Burkhard Schmeer
Sister Harriet: Catholic nun and midwife	Cara Seymour	Anne Moll
Dr. Everett Gallinger: surgeon	Eric Johnson	Marius Clarén
Jacob Speight: Municipal Health Inspector	David Fierro	Stephan Benson
Dr. JM Christiansen: Head of Surgery	Matt Frewer	Uli Krohm

production

The production of The Knick started in September 2013. The film was shot in New York City . Jack Amiel and Michael Begler wrote the scripts for all ten episodes of the first season, while Steven Soderbergh directed them.

Even before the premiere on July 10, 2014, Cinemax extended the series by a ten-part second season. It has been broadcast in the United States since fall 2015. In May 2017 it was announced that the series would not continue.

Episode list

season 1

No. ( total )	No. ( St. )	German title	Original title	First broadcast in the USA	German language first broadcast (D)	Director	script
1	1	Welcome to the circus	Method and Madness	Aug 8, 2014	Nov 18, 2014	Steven Soderbergh	Jack Amiel & Michael Begler
After Dr. JM Christiansen and Dr. John Thackery fail to operate placenta previa on a heavily pregnant woman, Christiansen commits suicide. Thackery takes his place as head of the surgical department. He believes that Dr. Evert Gallinger would make an excellent deputy, but is asked to recommend Dr. Algernon Edwards, who is black, to hand over this post. Thackery refuses to do so, as he expects racist tension among his colleagues. Hospital manager Herman Barrow Edwards hires. Because a patient develops bronchial infection after surgery, Thackery is needed again. Nurse Lucy Elkins finds him in his home, suffering from cocaine withdrawal. She injects him with cocaine, whereupon he returns to operate with a revolutionary homemade clamp. Then he asks Edwards to resign, which he refuses.
2	2	electrification	Mr. Paris Shoes	Aug 15, 2014	Dec 25, 2014	Steven Soderbergh	Jack Amiel & Michael Begler
As a woman and charity representative, Cornelia Robertson has to defend her position of power against the hospital board. Edwards realizes that the hospital doesn't treat black people. He sets up a makeshift clinic in the basement of the hospital, where he treats those rejected patients. Barrow struggles to make the hospital more presentable and needs to cut costs, resulting in an electrical short that sets a patient on fire and kills a nurse. However, it turns out that Barrow is embezzling funds from the hospital in order to pay off his loan to a gangster. Meanwhile, Thackery demands corpses for experiments and Dr. Chickering & Gallinger break into a library to read some of Edwards' "French Medical Journals".
3	3	syphilis	The Busy Flea	22 Aug 2014	Dec 2, 2014	Steven Soderbergh	Jack Amiel & Michael Begler
Thackery gets a visit from Abigail Alford, an old friend who has covered her face in a partial mask and is wearing sunglasses. Her face is disfigured from the effects of syphilis . Without her knowledge, her current ex-husband had infected her with the disease. After an examination, Thackery suggests reconstructing the missing nose by transferring tissue from the upper arm. Abigal persuades Thackery to do the surgery. Barrow needs money to pay for his wife's upscale lifestyle, but at the same time owes a larger sum to the windy lender Bunky Collier. He steals a body from the Knicks morgue and sells it on the black market. With the money he has taken, he can calm Bunky down. He can make his prostitute Junia happy with earrings stolen from his wife. Algernon begins to set up a practice for blacks in the basement. The coal bearers become receptionists, seamstresses become operating room nurses. He develops a new surgical procedure on a worker who is ill with a hernia (also known as a hernia) due to heavy carrying . The patient wants to go back to work immediately, but Algernon urges him to calm down. At breakfast with her parents, Cornelia found out about several people from the "Better Society" who had typhus . She is concerned about the possibility of an epidemic and alerts Thackery. He suggests that she and Health Inspector Speight investigate the cause. Gallinger and Bertie try to understand and apply the galvanic process that Algernon developed in Europe, but are unable to understand the necessary information from the previously stolen French publications. Finally, they agree that Algernon should guide them through the operation. The worker who had previously operated comes back to Algernon. He has started to work again and the fresh wound has opened. Algernon tries his best, but the man dies on the operating table. That same night he starts a boxing match in a bar to reduce his frustration.
4th	4th	In better circles	Where's the Dignity?	5th Sep 2014	Dec 9, 2014	Steven Soderbergh	Jack Amiel & Michael Begler
Cleary organizes illegal rat fights to make money on the bets. A man should try to kill as many rats as possible with his boots; he slips and is bitten by the rats. Barrow meets the widow of the man whose body he sold on the black market. To cover up the fraud, he burned parts of a dead pig and passed these ashes off as those of the deceased. Algernon, who is excluded from participating in an aneurysm operation, is supposed to guide Gallinger through the galvanic procedure. When he made the necessary incision and the patient began to bleed, he received no further instructions from Algernon. Faced with the choice of losing the patient or leaving Algernon the space at the operating table, Gallinger opts for the latter. Algernon inserts a concealed silver wire and can successfully complete the operation. Cornelia and Inspector Speight visit Mrs. Hemming to investigate the cause of the typhus outbreak. Speight, who does not speak the language of the "better circles", is supported in his efforts by Cornelia. Thackery visits Abigail to see the progress of the nasal reconstruction. Abigail regrets not choosing Thackery but the supposedly safe and boring life. Lucy follows Thackery to an opium den , where she finds him in a pitiful state. Algernon's father, who works as a coachman for the Robertsons, brings his son to the family home for dinner. Thomas Alva Edison demonstrates his sound recording machine there. Here he also meets Cornelia's fiancé Philip, who, to her surprise, tells of his plans to move to San Francisco after the wedding. Philips father Hobart tells Algernon about the advances in the development of an electric vacuum cleaner. He buys one of the devices for suctioning blood in his underground practice. Dr. Bertram Chickering Sr. visits his son Bertie im Kink. Shocked by Thackery's methods (he watches Thackery generate a pulse through heart massage after a patient dies during an operation), he tries to convince his son to leave the kink. Meanwhile, the man who had been bitten by the rats was brought in. He had meningitis . Gallinger returns home after treating the sick man and plays with his young daughter. Cleary is called to an ambulance to meet a young woman who is seriously injured while attempting an abortion on herself . Sister Harriet and Thackery try to save her, but it's too late. Barrow tries again to monetize the corpse, but is prevented from doing so by Cleary. He takes Sister Harriet and the body to Potter's Field , a poor cemetery, to ensure a dignified burial, since the deceased has no family in the country. Struck by memories, he tells Sister Harriet that he would never see a girl die like this again. Since he knows about Sister Harriet's secret abortions, he wants to find the girls in need in future and Harriet is supposed to carry out the abortions. The proceeds will be shared between them, 60 percent will go to Cleary, 40 percent to Sister Harriet.
5	5	Silver lining	They capture the heat	Sep 12 2014	Dec 16, 2014	Steven Soderbergh	Steven Katz
6th	6th	Research work	Start calling me dad	19 Sep 2014	23 Dec 2014	Steven Soderbergh	Jack Amiel & Michael Begler
7th	7th	Manhunt	Get the rope	26 Sep 2014	Dec 30, 2014	Steven Soderbergh	Jack Amiel & Michael Begler
8th	8th	Withdrawal symptoms	Working late a lot	Oct 3, 2014	Jan. 6, 2015	Steven Soderbergh	Jack Amiel & Michael Begler
9	9	The golden lotus	The Golden Lotus	Oct 10, 2014	Jan. 13, 2015	Steven Soderbergh	Steven Katz
10	10	blood	Crutchfield	Oct 17, 2014	Jan. 20, 2015	Steven Soderbergh	Jack Amiel & Michael Begler

season 2

No. ( total )	No. ( St. )	German title	Original title	First broadcast in the USA	German language first broadcast (D)	Director	script
11	1	Cold turkey	Ten knots	Oct 16, 2015	Dec 8, 2015	Steven Soderbergh	Jack Amiel & Michael Begler
12	2	Thirst for action	You're no rose	Oct 23, 2015	Dec 15, 2015	Steven Soderbergh	Jack Amiel & Michael Begler
13	3	Eugenics	The best with the best to get the best	Oct 30, 2015	Dec 22, 2015	Steven Soderbergh	Jack Amiel & Michael Begler
14th	4th	fever	Wonderful surprises	Nov 6, 2015	Dec 29, 2015	Steven Soderbergh	Jack Amiel & Michael Begler
15th	5	Whiplash	Whiplash	Nov 13, 2015	Jan. 5, 2016	Steven Soderbergh	Steven Katz
16	6th	Siamese twins	There are rules	Nov 20, 2015	Jan. 12, 2016	Steven Soderbergh	Jack Amiel & Michael Begler
17th	7th	Charity ball	Williams and Walker	Nov 27, 2015	Jan. 19, 2016	Steven Soderbergh	Jack Amiel & Michael Begler
18th	8th	Declaration of love	Not Well At All	Dec 4, 2015	Jan. 26, 2016	Steven Soderbergh	Steven Katz
19th	9	The sins of the fathers	Do You Remember Moon Flower?	Dec 11, 2015	Feb. 2, 2016	Steven Soderbergh	Jack Amiel & Michael Begler
20th	10	Everything we are	This Is All We Are	Dec 18, 2015	Feb 9, 2016	Steven Soderbergh	Jack Amiel & Michael Begler

reception

The Knick scores 75/100 on Metacritic based on 37 reviews. At Rotten Tomatoes the series even achieved a rating of 86%, which is "certified fresh" (dt .: certified fresh tomato ). The average rating is 8.4 / 10 based on 50 reviews.