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The Knick – Season 1, Episode 6 Start Calling Me Dad

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The Knick – Season 1, Episode 6

Start Calling Me Dad

Aired Sep 19, 2014

Drama

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Thackery and Bertie vow to reverse a series of operating theatre failures after finding success with a new procedure; Cornelia helps Speight track down a typhoid carrier; Edwards finds his clinic, and his career, in jeopardy.

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"Start Calling Me Dad" ties up a couple of story arcs and explores some distressing themes, resulting in a dark and twisty but ultimately engaging episode.

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Noam Cohen

Observer

10/07/2015

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.

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Steve Macfarlane

Slant Magazine

10/07/2015

Steven Soderbergh's handling of the meningitis case is both technically and dramatically virtuoso.

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Brandon Nowalk

AV Club

10/07/2015

A-

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.

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Kevin Yeoman

Screen Rant

10/08/2015

'Start Calling Me Dad' winds up feeling like an achievement for the series.

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Robert Ham

Paste Magazine

10/07/2015

8.9/10

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.

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Matt Fowler

IGN Movies

10/07/2015

8.5/10

"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.

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Synopsis

Thackery and Bertie vow to reverse a series of operating theatre failures after finding success with a new procedure; Cornelia helps Speight track down a typhoid carrier; Edwards finds his clinic, and his career, in jeopardy.

Director: Steven Soderbergh
Executive Producer: Steven Soderbergh, Jack Amiel, Michael Begler, Gregory Jacobs, Michael Sugar, Clive Owen
Network: HBO Max
Rating: TV-MA
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date: Sep 19, 2014