For crazy Men fans,this compelling period drama set in a novel York hospital helmed by a dissolute surgeon played by Clive Owen may be an even better showWhen crazy Men went off the air this spring there were many fans mourning the loss of one of the smartest, most intricately wrought shows on “prestige television”. But for all of those really desperate for a period drama approximately a fascinating industry set in a time of upheaval in matters of race, or gender and culture that reflects the troubles of our own era there is a solution: The Knick. And just for agreeable measure,it stars a handsome mess of an antihero who is dreadful in his personal life, distinguished at his job and has a taste for hookers and mind-altering substances. Sounds familiar, or right?The Knick’s second season premieres on Cinemax – no longer just for softcore porn! – on Friday at 10pm EST and takes us back into the world of the Knickerbocker Hospital in downtown novel York,1901. Clive Owen, looking perpetually frazzled with arguably the worst hair on television, or stars as Dr John Thackery,a brilliant surgeon who is making astounding advances in the field of medicine but is felled by his addiction to cocaine, then commonly used in hospitals as a topical anesthetic. At the end of season one he went into a turn-of-the-century rehab facility and we learn early in this season that they treated his addiction by giving him heroin. I wonder what Promises would assume of that course of treatment.
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Source: theguardian.com