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Aug 8, 2014 · With Clive Owen, André Holland, Jeremy Bobb, Juliet Rylance. Dr Thackery is Chief Of Medicine in a 1900 New York hospital, The Kickerbocker, battling a cocaine addiction, high mortality rates and bureaucratic corruption to save lives in a world before antibiotics and blood transfusions.
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- Drama, History
- Steven Soderbergh
- 2014-08-08
1. Method and Madness. Series premiere. Dr. John Thackery ascends to the role of chief surgeon at The Knick, but is forced to hire a black assistant chief. 2. Mr. Paris Shoes. Thackery tasks Barrow over a dearth of cadavers. Edwards opens a covert basement clinic. 3. The Busy Flea.
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In New York City, in the year 1900 at 7:30AM, Dr. John Thackery is awakened from his slumber in a Chinese brothel/opium den by the prostitute that he has appointed his personal alarm clock. Outside he instructs the driver of a hansom cab to take him to the Knickerbocker Hospital by a specifically inefficient route, and then climbs in the back where he removes an expensive white brogue and injects a solution of cocaine between his toes.
In the operating theater of the Knick, Dr. Thackery has joined his mentor, Dr. Jules Michael Christiansen, for an experimental Cesarean surgery, assisted by Drs. Chickering and Gallinger. After the removal of the fetus, the surgeons fail to prevent the mother's fatal hemorrhaging and Nurse Elkins' efforts to resuscitate the child are equally unsuccessful. Despite assurances from Dr. Thackery that they will perfect this procedure, Dr. Christiansen retires to his office and ends his life with a bullet to the temple. After Thackery delivers a stirring, if self-aggrandizing, eulogy to all in attendance at the funeral, Cornelia Robertson walks back to the Knick, accompanied by the hospital's financial manager Herman Barrow, to serve as her father's proxy at a meeting of the Board of Trustees. After discussing the hospital's annual deficit of $30,000 and promoting Thackery to Chief of Surgery, Cornelia broaches the matter of appointing a new Deputy Chief. Thackery believes that Gallinger is the obvious choice, but Cornelia places Harvard graduate Algernon Edwards into candidacy. Despite proclaiming that he stands firm in his decision, Thackery agrees to meet with him.
As part of a dubious deal with Barrow for increased business, Knickerbocker ambulance coachmen Tom Cleary and Eldon Pouncey, employ bats to extort the patient of drivers from a competing hospital. Upon delivery, Barrow promises to settle up at the end of the month. On rounds, Dr. Gallinger presents to Thackery a patient with pelvic damage after being struck by a street car. After examining his sutures, Thackery viciously dresses down new nurse Lucy Elkins for failure to clear the drainage tube of clogs. Moony-eyed Dr. Chickering attempts to console her with humor, but to no avail.
Cleary and Pouncey accompany police officer Phinny Sears and health inspector Jacob Speight to the ghetto apartment of a woman with tuberculosis, to take her against the protestations of her husband. As the woman is placed in the ambulance, Speight extorts the building's owner for hush money.
A well-dressed black man arrives at the Knick looking for Thackery, and Barrow directs him to the boiler room. There he interrupts Thack's construction of experimental equipment and introduces himself as Algernon Edwards. Thackery admits that Edwards' credentials are impressive and suggests he find work with a Negro infirmary, as he is not interested in an integrated staff.
Inspector Speight meets with Barrow in his office and is paid a founders fee for bringing the TB patient to the Knick. Cornelia employs the patient's daughter to translate the dire news that her disease is fatal. The young girl then expresses concern that she will be late for her work shift and Cornelia puts her in a cab. She then accosts Thackery for his treatment of Edwards, and they argue the wisdom of spear-heading social change by employing a Negro doctor whose ministrations no patient would allow. As leverage against Thackery's resistance, the Robertsons rescind their monetary backing of the hospital's electrification project.
•Thackery (to coachman): "I don't want faster. I enjoy waiting."
•“Jules. The procedure failed, you didn’t.”—Dr. John Thackery to Dr. J.M. Christiansen.
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"Method and Madness" is the series premiere of the American medical period drama television series The Knick. The episode was written by series creators Jack Amiel and Michael Begler, and directed by executive producer Steven Soderbergh. It originally aired on Cinemax on August 8, 2014.
The Knick: Nominated 74th Peabody Awards: Peabody Award: The Knick: Won 67th Primetime Emmy Awards: Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series: Steven Soderbergh for "Method and Madness" Nominated Outstanding Production Design for a Narrative Period Program Howard Cumming, Henry Dunn, and Regina Graves for "Method and Madness" tied
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Aug 8, 2014 · The pilot, “Method And Madness,” ends with a shot of the lights turning on in the ward. Dr. Edwards has electrified the place, which is quite a metaphor promotion considering he makes his ...
