Here’s what we know about Steven Soderbergh’s new TV series, The Knick: it stars Clive Owen, it’s set at New York’s Knickerbocker Hospital in 1900, and it involves early surgeries — some of which appear to go very, very wrong. Cinemax released the series’ first promo yesterday, and it sums that all up quite succinctly: “Surgery wasn’t always science,” it says. Interspersed with eerie shots of empty hospital rooms, the promo shows a number of the characters with blood splattered across their otherwise spotless, white hospital garb. It’s not a horror series — just a handful of people who have likely had a very bad day. Soderbergh directed all ten episodes of the show’s first season, and if this teaser is any sign, we may be in for something good.
Visit the eerie hospital of Steven Soderbergh’s upcoming TV series, ‘The Knick’
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