I love the slow burn Soderbergh has us roasting at. Thack no longer seems like the devil he was in the series premier. His rough edges have been sanded down, ever so slightly. He isn’t just a raging narcissist. He cares; about his staff, his lover, and possibly even his patients. Most of all, he cares that the Knick has run out of cocaine. Oh dear. Withdrawal is a bitch and someone is starting to get mighty twitchy. But Thack isn’t upset for himself, he is upset for the patients. Don’t you know how much he cares about the patients? He cares. Twitch, twitch. He cares, damn it! I did not realize Clive Owen could look unattractive. He can. While at the lecture, Bertie’s father lobbies Thack to fire his son, so that Bertie can go work for a more lucrative, less frantic, Jewish doctor. The horror! So nice of Bertie’s father to take such an interest in destroying his son’s current career. Speaking of horror, Gallinger and Sister Harriet force Mrs. Gallinger to take in an orphaned baby girl, Grace. Because making a traumatized mother who just lost her child hold another baby is a super good idea. It must be some new kind of infant shock treatment. Not surprisingly, Mrs. Gallinger is a wee resistant to the new baby. Gallinger comes home to find that Grace has been locked in the parlor all day while his wife knits hats for their dead daughter. Oh, this is going to end well. As the weasel is coming to learn. He goes to Robertson for more money for the Knick, but his timing is off. Those ships going down in the Philipines? They belong to Robertson. And the loss of his cargo has put him in no mood to pony up the dough for the weasel. The Catholic Church won’t give him the money. Where oh where is he supposed to come up with some spare cash? Easy. Fire some staff. Too bad he can’t even suspend twitchy, who is completely incapable of operating at this point. Poor twitchy. With no cocaine in sight, he is only going to plummet farther down the rabbit hole. @AtTheKnick Fun Fact: Typhoid Mary carried the disease, but didn’t show any symptoms. Like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter for all news updates related to the world of geek. And Google+, if that’s your thing!
