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A look at the professional and personal lives of the staff at New York's Knickerbocker Hospital during the early part of the twentieth century, where they try to maintain their reputation for quality care while struggling to keep the doors open.
At both the start and the close of tonight's second-season premiere of Steven Soderbergh's gruesomely gripping drama The Knick, we find ourselves asking the same question: Who's that girl?
The structure is generally the familiar cable-drama hop, skip and jump among intertwined story lines. But... Soderbergh constructs a seamless, shimmering, restlessly propulsive visual narrative that can fairly be called poetic.
The criss-crossing between more than a dozen characters eventually felt well-constructed instead of disparate and that vibe continued throughout "Ten Knots," as the characters were more geographically dispersed than ever but linked thematically.
It's the resolve to move forward and achieve the impossible, and do what has never been done before that drives these characters. And that pioneering spirit is also what makes The Knick such fascinating and endlessly watchable show.
Never mind the difficuly-men tropes; [season one] was a must-see moody dream piece, and with this solid second-season premiere, The Knick appears ready to build even further on that foundation.