The Knick — Season 1
New Year’s Day, 1900: At the bustling Knickerbocker Hospital in New York City, doctors and nurses are battling for life against staggering odds. In an era before antibiotics, where mortality rates soar, medical innovation is not just progress—it's a desperate necessity. Leading the charge is Chief Surgeon Dr. John Thackery, a brilliant but troubled man relentlessly pushing the boundaries of surgical practice. Driven by his ambition to save lives, he’s also wrestling with a dangerous secret: a crippling addiction to cocaine that threatens to unravel everything he’s built.
The opening episode of this medical drama transports viewers to a hospital in turn-of-the-century New York City, where the esteemed Dr. John W. Thackery has just been appointed chief surgeon. He finds himself under considerable pressure fro…
Already simmering with frustration over the hospital’s unreliable new electrical system, Thackery instructs Herman Barrow, the Knick's unscrupulous superintendent, to procure additional cadavers. He intends for these to serve as subjects fo…
Thackery contemplates operating on a woman from his past, instructing Gallinger and Chickering to practice on swine. Barrow goes to considerable lengths to settle a financial obligation. Following a difficult day, Edwards seeks solace in th…
In the operating theater, Algernon’s interference compels Thackery, a situation that displeases Gallinger. Abigail, convalescing, grows to regret her entanglement with Thackery and Sister Harriet, while Cleary engages in a few clandestine t…
Barrow might ease a financial burden by tending to one of Collier’s wounded and persuading Captain Robertson to purchase one of Thomas Edison’s latest inventions. Elsewhere, Algernon experiments with a novel surgical technique for hernias, …
Following a trial run of the revised procedure, Thackery and Bertie resolved to rectify the recent string of mishaps plaguing the operating theatre. Cornelia, buoyed by the success of assisting Speight, found herself strangely disinclined t…
The assault on a police officer by a Black man ignited a palpable tension in the city, echoing within the hospital walls and compelling Thackery and Edwards to intervene. Everett resumed his duties, finding the operating room subtly altered…
The city's cocaine shortage had Thackery already frayed; now, he feared Dr. Levi Zinberg, a Jewish surgeon and inventor, would eclipse him at the upcoming New York Surgical Society presentation. Bertie persisted in his pursuit of Lucy, all …
A crime committed in the late hours casts a shadow over the Knick, compelling Robertson to consider desperate measures. Lucy pushes boundaries in her pursuit of medicine for Thackery, who grows increasingly desperate; his request for an adv…
Driven by a growing paranoia and determined to surpass Dr. Zinberg in blood-transfusion research, Thackery relentlessly pursues his work, pushing himself to the brink of exhaustion. Cornelia and Edwards find themselves at a pivotal juncture…
