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EPISODE
SEASON
The Knick - Season 1 Episode 05: They Capture the Heat
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.
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October 07, 2015
It's been a pleasure watching Steven Soderbergh stress Thackery and Algernon's unspoken shifts in opinion of one another, and "They Capture the Heat" skirts it on the margins.October 07, 2015
Halfway through its first season, The Knick appears to be foundering a bit... the show has fragmented into a series of overlapping stories.October 08, 2015
The Knick is still a bit of a circus built around a large group of characters it doesn't entirely seem to know what to do with, episodes like this help to better define them and point toward individual arcs that factor more concretely in the narrative.October 07, 2015
Heavy handed though it was, it moved things forward appreciably and left the door open to what could be some fiery dramatics in the weeks to come.October 07, 2015
I don't know what's going on in his head, but I know there's an actual brain at work. And I can't look away.October 01, 2015
In an episode full of x-rays and Edison, it's young Lucy, all dressed in white and atop her blue bicycle that is the true symbol of modernity. She is the future.October 07, 2015
The Knick continued to build up the relationship (ever so slowly) between Thackery and Edwards this week while making dangerous moves to connect Barrow's criminal connections to the hospital.October 01, 2015
On the other side of the dramatic ledger, when the Captain, in conversation with Thackery, remarked on the heat, Thackery repeated Edwards's comment about the tall buildings - a bit of theft and an unconscious sign of respect.September 30, 2015
This burning desire to play god seems especially suited to the world of doctors. But They Capture the Heat, the fifth episode of The Knick views this ambition as quintessentially, free-floatingly human.October 01, 2015
Despite our decidedly pro-Knick stance up to now, if ever there was an episode in this series so far that stubbornly refused to congeal, They Capture the Heat seems it. Too much stuck when the ideas were thrown at the wall.