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EPISODE
SEASON
The Knick - Season 2 Episode 8: Not Well at All
A look at the professional and personal lives of the staff at New York's Knickerbocker Hospital during the early part of the twentieth century, where they try to maintain their reputation for quality care while struggling to keep the doors open.
29 December 1982, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
18 April 1966, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
10 July 1962, New York City, New York, USA
December 06, 2015
It's an intersection of the season's horror and its feminism.
December 06, 2015
There was an enormous amount of incident in the episode, and Steven Soderbergh kept things moving at breakneck pace, squeezing (by my count) 32 separate scenes into about 50 minutes.
December 06, 2015
It should have been obvious from the start, but Tom Clearly, the surly ambulance driver played by Chris Sullivan, might wind up being The Knick's most memorable character.
December 06, 2015
I wasn't prepared for this week's heartbreak, especially since things were looking promising.
December 06, 2015
Not only Thackery's life collapsed this episode. "Not Well At All" doled out a season's worth of revelations and realizations, none of them good.
December 06, 2015
Hate to say it, Cleary, but you'll need to move at an even slower pace if you want this to work. That curtain's going to be pulled even tighter tonight.
December 06, 2015
I remain in constant appreciation and occasional awe about how sneakily... the writers on The Knick have presented us with an array of female characters that are often even richer and more complex than their male counterparts on the show.
December 06, 2015
"Not Well at All" more than matches the position staked by the first season's eighth episode: a headlong plunge into bleakness that abridges and re-contextualizes earlier breakthrough moments.
December 07, 2015
This week, there's no shortage of brutal curveballs and harsh revelations for everyone at The Knick. In fact, there's plenty to go around.
