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I really enjoyed The Knick on HBO Max
The majority of my close relatives are in medical professions so this might appeal to me more than most people. What passed for medicine 100 years ago is horrifying today though many innovations and discoveries were found through trial and error.
Great acting, great story, great characters, great sets and costumes. A few annoying things but overall an enjoyable watch.
As upscale care in New York shifts from urban locales in the early 1900s, Knickerbocker Hospital remains in the city to serve a mostly poor, immigrant population. Undeterred by high mortality from sepsis in a pre-antibiotics era, chief surgeon John Thackery pushes medicine's boundaries, pioneering procedures despite his painful past and severe cocaine addiction. Dr. Algernon Edwards, recruited by hospital patron Capt. August Robertson, is the chief's professional equal, but Edwards' color skews Thackery's opinion -- until a chance discovery changes it. Co-executive produced by Steven Soderbergh, who directs the first season, "The Knick" is a sometimes-graphic drama, revealing racism and corruption while desperate people became operating-room guinea pigs.
