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The Knick – Season 1, Episode 9 The Golden Lotus

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The Knick – Season 1, Episode 9

The Golden Lotus

Aired Oct 10, 2014

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A late-night crime sheds unfavorable light on the Knick, which prompts Robertson to come up with hush money; Lucy goes to extremes to get drugs for a desperate Thackery; Eleanor's behavior becomes more erratic.

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"The Golden Lotus" offers emotional moments for its major players and continues The Knick's bleak, sobering march toward its season finale in a compelling fashion.

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Clive Owen

Dr. John Thackery

André Holland

Dr. Algernon Edwards

Eve Hewson

Lucy Elkins

Jeremy Bobb

Herman Barrow

Juliet Rylance

Cornelia Robertson

Michael Angarano

Dr. Bertie Chickering Jr.

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Noam Cohen

Observer

10/07/2015

Even the B and C plots this week were horrible to watch.

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Steve Macfarlane

Slant Magazine

10/07/2015

It's so gripping, in fact, that when Captain August Robertson (Grainger Hines) and the Knick's administrator, Herman Barrow (Jeremy Bobb) bail Thackery out, it feels almost disingenuously comforting.

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Brandon Nowalk

AV Club

10/07/2015

A

"The Golden Lotus" is no lugubrious slog through perfectly ironic misery like other cable dramas. For one thing it's funny, and in ways that I can't quite capture with transcription because the jokes are so character-based.

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Kevin Yeoman

Screen Rant

10/08/2015

It's a striking look that's not particularly pleasing, but it is fascinating to see Owen's lip curl underneath that mustache of his, while his eyes are seemingly busy penetrating the wall just beyond the audience's field of vision.

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Robert Ham

Paste Magazine

10/07/2015

8.7/10

There's no telling where the show is going to lead us as it heads towards its season finale next week. There's little chance of a big happy ending to send us all off smiling into the fall and winter.

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Matt Fowler

IGN Movies

10/07/2015

8.8/10

Despite the show feeling like a procession of foreseeable tragedies sometimes, this was still an excellent penultimate season episode. An episode that worked to take Thackery down a peg in everyone's eyes, except Lucy.

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Synopsis

A late-night crime sheds unfavorable light on the Knick, which prompts Robertson to come up with hush money; Lucy goes to extremes to get drugs for a desperate Thackery; Eleanor's behavior becomes more erratic.

Director: Steven Soderbergh
Executive Producer: Steven Soderbergh, Jack Amiel, Michael Begler, Gregory Jacobs, Michael Sugar, Clive Owen
Screenwriter: Jack Amiel, Michael Begler
Network: HBO Max
Rating: TV-MA
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date: Oct 10, 2014