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‘The Knick’ Is Just as Concerned With the Policing of Bodies as It Is With...
Any time a character appears on The Knick who is female, black, Chinese, Jewish, sacrilegious, or poor, a viewer who’s familiar with the show might well start tensing up, waiting for some form of abuse...
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Staff Picks: Grimes, ‘Phonogram Volume 1: Rue Brittania,’ and Grantland’s...
Need a great book to read, album to listen to, or TV show to get hooked on? The Flavorwire team is here to help: in this weekly feature, our editorial staffers recommend the cultural object or...
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Kendrick’s “How Much a Dollar Cost” Was Obama’s Favorite Song of 2015, ‘The...
As publications begin to roll out their highly subjective “_of the year” music lists, the one thing that seems to be a little less subjective is the excellence of Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly —...
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Cinemax Is Trying to Keep ‘The Knick’ Alive, Orders Season 3 Premiere Script
Cinemax has ordered a script for the season three premiere of its period medical drama The Knick in an attempt to extend the series beyond its planned two-year arc. According to Variety, the network...
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Why ‘The Knick’ Can, and Should, Continue After Its Dramatic Finale
Warning: the following is teeming with spoilers from The Knick‘s Season 2 finale. After The Knick‘s Season 2 finale, it seems clear that Clive Owen’s character Dr. John Thackery is utterly dead,...
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Flavorwire Staffers’ Favorite TV Episodes of 2015
From popularizing pegging to meditating on an influential Coke ad to pioneering self-surgery to being a horse who’s also a washed-up actor with a crushing emotional life, TV characters this year have...
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Steven Soderbergh Might Direct Another Feature — Maybe, I Dunno, Who Knows?
As anyone who’s seen Ocean’s 12 can tell you, nothing’s easy when it comes to Steven Soderbergh. So it probably shouldn’t come as a surprise that his possible return to feature film directing,...
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‘April and the Extraordinary World’ Proves Steampunk Doesn’t Have to Be...
In a recent brief review of April and the Extraordinary World, the French animated film based on the works of Jacques Tardi that was released in the US last week, the Village Voice called it an...
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‘Inside Amy Schumer’ Presents ‘The Knick Jr.,’ In Which Thackery Is Addicted...
Though The Knick may (or may not! or may sort of!) be over, Amy Schumer has given a resuscitating shot of adrenaline (you know, the kind that couldn’t save certain characters, resulting, like most of...
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How ‘The Knick’ and ‘The Girlfriend Experience’ Bring the Soderbergh Style to...
The final episode of The Girlfriend Experience’s first season has a scene that deftly summarizes everything that’s great about the series. In it, our protagonist, a high-dollar escort named Christine...
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