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EPISODE
SEASON
The Knick - Season 1 Episode 06: Start Calling Me Dad
The series is a look at the professional and personal lives of Dr. John W. Thackery and the staff at New York's Knickerbocker Hospital, where they try to maintain their reputation for quality care while struggling to keep the doors open.
15 November 1963, New York City, New York, USA
4 April 1964, Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA
4 May 2001, Walnut Creek, California, USA
11 May 1993, Los Angeles, California, USA
September 30, 2015
There can be suspense in this kind of storytelling, but the episode feels more like housecleaning for the inelegant way it resolves certain narrative threads while awkwardly setting up others.October 07, 2015
It's such a funny, exciting, sad hour-the most I've felt watching The Knick since the premiere-but then the final scene leaves us with a sense of intense revulsion and the title takes that feeling and applies it to the whole episode.October 01, 2015
One of The Knick's greatest strengths is its collection of diverse, engaging performances-from Owen's mercurial Thackery to André Holland's continually tested Edwards and Juliet Rylance's quietly defiant Cornelia.October 07, 2015
Still, now that we are deep into the storylines of all these characters-understanding their morality and talents and failings, and learning some of their histories-this episode feels like a perfect step forward for the series.October 01, 2015
Start Calling Me Dad has a couple of genuine unforeseen twists in it, starting with the episode's overall optimism and sense of hopefulness (all things being relative, of course; this is The Knick, after all).October 07, 2015
"Start Calling Me Dad" switched the story up a bit by ending a couple of threads (C-Sections, Typhoid) and starting a few news ones.October 08, 2015
'Start Calling Me Dad' winds up feeling like an achievement for the series.October 07, 2015
Steven Soderbergh's handling of the meningitis case is both technically and dramatically virtuoso.October 07, 2015
And Cleary and Sister Harriet continue to perform abortions and then have pointless conversations about whether they're going to hell. Here's a hint: You're poor people/women/minorities in New York in 1900. You're already there.October 01, 2015
Began and ended with striking scenes of the plight of early-20th-century American women.