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Steven Soderbergh's The Knick returned tonight with a somewhat more intimate start to the season than we saw back in last fall's freshman run. Soderbergh's style - notably the true "star" of the series - is still set to sometimes put viewers in a state of detached unease, but "Ten Knots" very purposefully picked things up with each individual character, relying on our actual investment in where things left off with them to carry us through.
Clive Owen's Thackery was far worse off after being in what 1901 considered "rehab," Andre Holland's Edwards was now on the cusp of possibly taking over for Thackery full time (bad time to have a detached retina), and Chris Sullivan's Cleary remained dead set on getting Cara Seymour's Harriet out of the women's penitentiary (presumedly with cash earned using his fancy new ambulance and sponsoring catch-as-catch-can wrestlers).
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Steven Soderbergh's The Knick returned tonight with a somewhat more intimate start to the season than we saw back in last fall's freshman run. Soderbergh's style - notably the true "star" of the series - is still set to sometimes put viewers in a state of detached unease, but "Ten Knots" very purposefully picked things up with each individual character, relying on our actual investment in where things left off with them to carry us through.
Clive Owen's Thackery was far worse off after being in what 1901 considered "rehab," Andre Holland's Edwards was now on the cusp of possibly taking over for Thackery full time (bad time to have a detached retina), and Chris Sullivan's Cleary remained dead set on getting Cara Seymour's Harriet out of the women's penitentiary (presumedly with cash earned using his fancy new ambulance and sponsoring catch-as-catch-can wrestlers).
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