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The Knick - Season 1 Episode 08: Working Late a Lot
The series is a look at the professional and personal lives of Dr. John W. Thackery and the staff at New York's Knickerbocker Hospital, where they try to maintain their reputation for quality care while struggling to keep the doors open.
The Knick indulges in some vices in its latest, which should maybe be called "Working It a Lot," because there's a whole lot of bad behavior, sexytime, and sass this week in the period drama.
"Working Late a Lot" was in some ways an even more impressive technical achievement than last week's riot, finding its spectacle through internal rather than external pressures.
Is it really just a human story about one of the doctors, or is this all a set up for something truly shocking? With just two more episodes to go, we're hooked.
For two-thirds of a season on The Knick we've been waiting for Dr. John Thackery's cocaine addiction to bring him down - not for any moralistic reasons, but just because it seemed like it was destiny.
It's a testament to the directorial prowess of Soderbergh, then, that he can switch gears from the hectic turmoil of last week's racially charged mob violence to something as intimate and single-minded as 'Working Late a Lot.'
The storyline is also noteworthy for the subtle, usually unspoken hints it drops about how developed Thackery's colleagues and subordinates' sense of his addiction really is.
Well, after hitting a definitive climax last week, The Knick came through with an episode that is-both literally and figuratively-just one long hangover. Thematically appropriate? Absolutely. Fun to watch? Not so much.