My overall rating of "The Knick"'s Season 1: 6/10
Somehow this episode manages to fit a big percentage of all illogical, ill-conceived and ill-done things in the season. That "tense" scene of operating on the gangster with the "high stakes" falls completely flat because of how contrived it is. Cornelia's dad sends _his daughter_ to a less-than-salubrious hotel in person to fetch a black man, a son of his servant (and apparently folds a good poker hand), because said servant has been feeling unwell. Cornelia and the health inspector keep chewing the scenery. Nurse Elkins (?) arrives to the Knick in her nurse outfit and with no bag in the morning, but leaving it in the evening she's dressed in a proper outside coat... did she forget it at the hospital the last time?.. Also, regardless of what Thackery says, she's a terrible teacher. And what's the deal with these "buildings and heat" conversation, what does it illustrate?
However, the usual good acting, feel of the era etc are all present as usual, so it's not awful as a whole, and while I'd predicted the Gallangers' (?) plotline, it's still very shocking and evocative.
Somehow this episode manages to fit a big percentage of all illogical, ill-conceived and ill-done things in the season. That "tense" scene of operating on the gangster with the "high stakes" falls completely flat because of how contrived it is. Cornelia's dad sends _his daughter_ to a less-than-salubrious hotel in person to fetch a black man, a son of his servant (and apparently folds a good poker hand), because said servant has been feeling unwell. Cornelia and the health inspector keep chewing the scenery. Nurse Elkins (?) arrives to the Knick in her nurse outfit and with no bag in the morning, but leaving it in the evening she's dressed in a proper outside coat... did she forget it at the hospital the last time?.. Also, regardless of what Thackery says, she's a terrible teacher. And what's the deal with these "buildings and heat" conversation, what does it illustrate?
However, the usual good acting, feel of the era etc are all present as usual, so it's not awful as a whole, and while I'd predicted the Gallangers' (?) plotline, it's still very shocking and evocative.
