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The Knick - Season 2 - Fridays on Cinemax

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Funky Papa

FUNK-Y-PPA-4
I absolutely adored the ending and all the small and bigger gut punches that threw at the viewer.

Best finale since The Wire.
 
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BlueTsunami

there is joy in sucking dick
Most culturally underrated show ever? How is it not getting way more viewers. There better be a season 3. But the ending scene with Algernon was perfect.
 
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JesseZao

Member
Just finished season 2 and I have to stay that I was pretty disappointed. Other than the Ascension of Lucy, almost every other piece set-up by the first season just shuffled around as if in a dollhouse during playtime. Sure they're were some twists and turns, but it mostly tread dark and dull waters, which can be exhausting to sit through. I don't mind slow burn, but at least having something to talk about afterwards would be payoff enough. I almost need to watch season one again.
 
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TheOddOne

Member
I bring bad news.

- TVLine: The Knick Season 3 Update: 'I've Heard It's Done,' Co-Star Says.
Although there’s no official word from Cinemax, it appears unlikely the Clive Owen-starring medical drama will return for a third season, according to This Is Us star Chris Sullivan, who played The Knick‘s gruff ambulance driver Tom Cleary.

“Yeah, I’ve heard it’s done,” Sullivan told TVLine on the PaleyFest red carpet. “They were gonna try [to do a third season], but I’ve heard it’s done.”
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The network did order a script for a possible Season 3 premiere, and Soderbergh even said last July he was still planning to do a third season. But with the last episode airing way back in December 2015 and cast members like Sullivan moving on to new projects, it seems safe to say The Knick is headed for the TV morgue.

Sullivan now stars as Kate’s boyfriend Toby on NBC’s hit family drama This Is Us, and he looks and sounds so different — clean-shaven, no Irish accent — that even The Knick fans don’t recognize him. But he still credits the Cinemax drama with kick-starting his acting career: “I was very proud of that show. And everything I’ve done since then is directly because of that show. So I’m very thankful to Steven Soderbergh and the whole crew.”
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Grizzlyjin

Grizzlyjin

Supersonic, idiotic, disconnecting, not respecting, who would really ever wanna go and top that
Whoa whoa whoa whoa. Cleary is Toby on This Is Us!? He's completely unrecognizable. I never in a million years would've picked up on that.
 
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RatskyWatsky

Hunky Nostradamus
I'm not the least bit surprised Cinemax isn't moving forward with The Knick, given their new "more cost effective, high octane, co-productions" directive, but I will be baffled if the show doesn't jump over to HBO. It's quite a bit better than any of their current homegrown dramas and it's cheap to produce by HBO standards. They'd be foolish to let this one slip through their fingers.

Darth Pinche said:
This sucks, but then it makes the last episode a hell of a series finale!
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They were planning on rebooting the show with a new cast and storyline if it was renewed, iirc.
 
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Steelyuhas

Member
RatskyWatsky said:
I'm not the least bit surprised Cinemax isn't moving forward with The Knick, given their new "more cost effective, high octane, co-productions" directive, but I will be baffled if the show doesn't jump over to HBO. It's quite a bit better than any of their current homegrown dramas and it's cheap to produce by HBO standards. They'd be foolish to let this one slip through their fingers.
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It was always baffling that they pushed it off to Cinemax in the first place, would be kinda funny to see them take it back (of course I'd welcome it!)
 
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Frost_Ace

Member
RatskyWatsky said:
I'm not the least bit surprised Cinemax isn't moving forward with The Knick, given their new "more cost effective, high octane, co-productions" directive, but I will be baffled if the show doesn't jump over to HBO. It's quite a bit better than any of their current homegrown dramas and it's cheap to produce by HBO standards. They'd be foolish to let this one slip through their fingers.



They were planning on rebooting the show with a new cast and storyline if it was renewed, iirc.
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I hope that's the case. The setting of the show is too good to be wasted
 
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Funky Papa

FUNK-Y-PPA-4
RatskyWatsky said:
I'm not the least bit surprised Cinemax isn't moving forward with The Knick, given their new "more cost effective, high octane, co-productions" directive, but I will be baffled if the show doesn't jump over to HBO. It's quite a bit better than any of their current homegrown dramas and it's cheap to produce by HBO standards. They'd be foolish to let this one slip through their fingers.
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I'm not sure how Quarry fits in that description, tbh. As good as it is, it feels like watching the paint dry at times.

That said, I'm saddened by the news but I'm also content with the way it ended. That final episode was one of the most satisfying and depleting ones since Hannibal's. It was TV perfection as far as I'm concerned.

Fake edit: The Spanish edition of Top Chef has licensed The Knick's soundtrack. You can hear some of Cliff Martinez's tenser tunes during prep work. It works surprisingly well.
 
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Alpende

Member
I would have liked to see another season with a different cast. Owen's story was done but I really dug the visual style and the world of The Knick. Too bad.
 
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Cornballer

Member
- Deadline: ‘The Knick’ Canceled After 2 Seasons As Cinemax Focuses On Action Dramas
Cinemax has made it official — Steven Soderbergh’s The Knick will not produce more seasons beyond the two that already had aired. Clive Owen, who starred in the first two seasons, had said that he was done, though the network had left the door slightly open for another installment with a new lead actor. Cinemax will now focus completely on its re-callibtated identity as home of high-octane action dramas, most of them international co-productions. Here is the statement by Cinemax’s programming chief Kary Antholis:

“After a critically acclaimed two-season run of THE KNICK on Cinemax, we will not be going forward with additional episodes of the series,” said Kary Antholis, president, HBO Miniseries and Cinemax Programming. “Despite our pride in and affection for the series, as well as our respect for and gratitude towards Steven Soderbergh and his team, we have decided to return Cinemax to its original primetime series fare of high-octane action dramas, many of which will be internationally co-produced.”
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UrbanRats

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stenbumling said:
It couldn't have ended on a better note. It's perfect as it is.
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Yeah
Thack's ending scene
is probably one of my favorite scenes in a TV show, period.
As for the whole season, as i said some ends were tied a bit too quickly in my opinion.

Worst example being the whole Cornelia family arc.
 
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hateradio

The Most Dangerous Yes Man
Fuh. I thought there would be one more season.


Second wasn't as tight, but, damn, the show was so beautiful.
 
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LaneDS

Member
Do we expect to see this streaming anywhere anytime soon or should I just bite the bullet and buy both seasons on BD? Also wonder if they'll package them together now that it is officially spent.
 
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ezekial45

Banned
Steelyuhas said:
Why this show didn't air on HBO in the first place will forever baffle me. I would have been way IN on that season 3.
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This show was pitched at a time when HBO had more heavy hitters on, and they felt they couldn't find a place to put it on their schedule. Though I'm sure many of the execs at HBO were kicking themselves for not picking it up, especially when they banked so much on shows like Vinyl becoming a hit.
 
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Steelyuhas

Member
ezekial45 said:
This show was pitched at a time when HBO had more heavy hitters on, and they felt they couldn't find a place to put it on their schedule. Though I'm sure many of the execs at HBO were kicking themselves for not picking it up, especially when they banked so much on shows like Vinyl becoming a hit.
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Yes, I believe it was also at a time where HBO believed in it's rigid and lengthy development process and Soderbergh came to them with a fast action plan to get the thing on the air very quickly. HBO balked at that, but thought they could indulge Soderbergh's desires via Cinemax.

Hindsight is 20/20 of course, but I've firmly believe that on HBO Sunday night this would have pulled in decent ratings and been an Emmy darling.
 
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ezekial45

Banned
Steelyuhas said:
Yes, I believe it was also at a time where HBO believed in it's rigid and lengthy development process and Soderbergh came to them with a fast action plan to get the thing on the air very quickly. HBO balked at that, but thought they could indulge Soderbergh's desires via Cinemax.

Hindsight is 20/20 of course, but I've firmly believe that on HBO Sunday night this would have pulled in decent ratings and been an Emmy darling.
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Yep. While it was great Cinemax stepped up, I'm sure this being on that channel contributed to its demise. I don't ever see Cinemax getting past the stigma of being the porn, action, and HBO run-off channel, unfortunately. Which made this show, along with Quarry and Outcast, such oddities. The Knick is highest quality original show Cinemax will ever have, and unfortunately it was a bit too good for the channel. This show should've been on HBO, definitely.

RadioHeadAche said:
I would want to know what happened to Algernon, though
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Andre Holland did a podcast with the creators of the show where they talked about where Algernon would be in the future. They said he'd be one of the more important figures of the Harlem Renaissance and would make great strides in psychology.

https://soundcloud.com/theknickpodcast/the-knick-s2-e10-this-is-all-we-are

But yeah, I'm just sad that the show ended on such a downer. I never would've thought that S2 would make S1 seem like 'the good times'. Y'know? S3 would have been a fresh start and I would've loved to have seen more, and possibly get some details about what happened to the original cast of characters.
 
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