The Knick: Medicine is scarier than zombies
There are no zombies crashing through the windows or serial killers cooking heart tartare in The Knick, probably the most horrifying show on television. Steven Soderbergh’s hospital drama has no need for bloodsucking monsters to act as metaphors for the human condition. In The Knick, the monster IS the human condition, death is the inevitable ending, and in 1900, it seems the merciful alternative to hospital treatment.
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