The Knick: Season 1

2014 · 10 episodes · ★ 7.3

What Season 1 of The Knick

In 1900, the surgeons and nurses at the Knickerbocker Hospital in New York push the boundaries of medicine in a time of high mortality rates and zero antibiotics. Chief surgeon Dr. John Thackery pioneers new methods in the field while harboring a severe cocaine addiction.

10episodes

Aug 8, 2014premiered

Oct 17, 2014final episode

8.4 hrtotal runtime

Season 1 Episodes

1x01 Method and Madness
Aug 8, 2014 · 55 min · ★ 7.3
In the series premiere of this medical drama set in a 1900s New York City hospital, accomplished Dr. John W. Thackery is named chief surgeon and is pressured by a major benefactor to hire a black doctor as his top assistant.
Directing: Steven Soderbergh · Writer: Michael Begler, Jack Amiel · Starring: Leon Addison Brown, Lucas Papaelias, Frank Wood, Michael Berresse
1x02 Mr. Paris Shoes
Aug 15, 2014 · 48 min · ★ 7.0
Already fuming over the hospital's faulty new electrical system, Thackery tasks Herman Barrow, the Knick's crooked superintendent, to deliver more cadavers so that he and his team can test out novel surgical procedures. With more patients dying, Edwards offers to share a procedure he learned in France, but is rebuffed by Thackery and Gallinger. Robertson addresses a typhoid-fever outbreak, Elkins is taken into Thackery's confidence and Sister Harriet breaks a taboo. Edwards finds an alternative way to perform his duties.
Directing: Steven Soderbergh · Writer: Michael Begler, Jack Amiel · Starring: Danny Hoch, Grainger Hines, Perry Yung, Leon Addison Brown
1x03 The Busy Flea
Aug 22, 2014 · 54 min · ★ 7.2
Thackery weighs performing surgery on a former flame, and orders Gallinger and Chickering to experiment on pigs. Barrow goes the extra yard to square a debt. After a bad day at work, Edwards takes out his frustrations at a local bar. Robertson is relieved when her pleas about treating a patient with typhoid fever are finally heard.
Directing: Steven Soderbergh · Writer: Michael Begler, Jack Amiel · Starring: Danny Hoch, Grainger Hines, Rachel Anna Simon, LaTonya Borsay
1x04 Where's the Dignity?
Sep 5, 2014 · 55 min · ★ 7.8
During surgery, Thackery's hand is forced by Algernon, which irks Gallinger. A recovering Abigail regrets her involvement with Thackery and Sister Harriet and Cleary make a couple of deals. Meanwhile, Bertie receives a scolding from his physician father who is unhappy with his son's career path and Lucy becomes privy to Thackery's secrets.
Directing: Steven Soderbergh · Writer: Michael Begler, Jack Amiel · Starring: Grainger Hines, Reg Rogers, LaTonya Borsay, Lucas Papaelias
1x05 They Capture the Heat
Sep 12, 2014 · 47 min · ★ 7.3
Barrow can alleviate a debt if he treats one of Collier's wounded men and also urges Capt. Robertson to buy one of Thomas Edison's new inventions. Meanwhile, Algernon tries a new approach to hernia surgery, the health of Everett and Eleanor's baby worsens, and Sister Harriet and Cleary head to Chinatown.
Directing: Steven Soderbergh · Writer: Steven Katz · Starring: Danny Hoch, Grainger Hines, Rachel Anna Simon, LaTonya Borsay
1x06 Start Calling Me Dad
Sep 19, 2014 · 53 min · ★ 7.4
After testing out a new procedure, Thackery and Bertie vow to reverse a series of failures in the operating theatre. Euphoric after helping Speight, Cornelia finds herself less than enthusiastic about her status as the future Mrs. Phillip Showalter. Thackery entertains a salesman’s pitch; Everett considers how to help Eleanor with her grief; Barrow haggles over used merchandise. Edwards finds his clinic, and his career, in jeopardy after a surprise encounter.
Directing: Steven Soderbergh · Writer: Michael Begler, Jack Amiel · Starring: Zuzanna Szadkowski, Ying Ying Li
1x07 Get the Rope
Sep 26, 2014 · 42 min · ★ 7.3
The stabbing of a cop by a black man stirs up racial tension on the street and in the Knick, forcing Thackery and Edwards to take action. Everett returns to work and a changed OR. Barrow fears for Junia’s safety. Cornelia is impressed with Edwards’ ingenuity and Lucy is escorted home.
Directing: Steven Soderbergh · Writer: Michael Begler, Jack Amiel · Starring: Zuzanna Szadkowski, Sawyer Barth, Ying Ying Li
1x08 Working Late a Lot
Oct 3, 2014 · 51 min · ★ 7.0
Already on edge due to a city-wide run on cocaine, Thackery worries that Dr. Levi Zinberg, a Jewish surgeon and inventor, will steal his spotlight at the next New York Surgical Society presentation. Bertie continues his courtship of Lucy while staving off his father’s persistent demands that he leave the Knick. Cornelia, Speight and Bertie go to court in an attempt to keep “Typhoid Mary” Mallon quarantined. Gallinger tries to get Eleanor to move past her grief.
Directed by: Steven Soderbergh · Written by: Michael Begler, Jack Amiel · Starring: Ying Ying Li
1x09 The Golden Lotus
Oct 10, 2014 · 43 min · ★ 6.7
A late-night crime sheds unfavorable light on the Knick, forcing Robertson to come up with hush money. Lucy goes to extremes to get drugs for an increasingly desperate Thackery, whose plea for an advance from a seller of patent medicines falls on deaf ears. Gallinger despairs as Eleanor’s behavior becomes more erratic; Cornelia and Edwards proffer different solutions to a shared dilemma.
Directed by: Steven Soderbergh · Written by: Steven Katz · Starring: Tom Papa, Rachel Izen, Zuzanna Szadkowski
1x10 Crutchfield Season Finale
Oct 17, 2014 · 57 min · ★ 7.7
Refusing to collaborate with Dr. Zinberg on blood-transfusion research, an increasingly paranoid Thackery pushes himself to the limit, and beyond, in an effort to “solve the riddle” and beat his rival. Cornelia and Edwards arrive at a crossroads; Barrow trades one creditor for another; Lucy requests Bertie’s help. With the Knick in the midst of yet another crisis, Robertson calls for a vote.
Directed by: Steven Soderbergh · Written by: Michael Begler, Jack Amiel · Starring: Danny Hoch, Grainger Hines, Michael Nathanson, Perry Yung