Soderbergh Ep. 30: The Knick Season 2 (2015)

Scrub in, folks - we're headed back to the operating theater for the second and final season of The Knick! Doctors Thack and Edwards and the gang are up to even more bleak shenanigans this time, and we're talking about it all. It's a bonafide Pod Casty cornucopia of context as we chat medical hypnotism, eugenics, Black Nationalism, sideshows, addiction treatment, urban revival churches, condoms, New York City corruption, and a bunch of other stuff. Plus, Kimi's really one on this time.

Further Reading:

Soderbergh interview on AI by Brent Lang

Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance by Melinda Cooper

Melodrama and Modernity: Early Sensational Cinema and Its Contexts by Ben Singer

The Showman and the Slave: Race, Death, and Memory in Barnum's America by Benjamin Reiss

André Holland interview by Rodrigo Perez

"The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey" by Paul Prescod

"The Shadow of Booker T. Washington" by Jervis Anderson

"A Short History of the Condom" by Hallie Lieberman

"The Wedding Night" by Ida Craddock

Further Viewing:

THE MOSQUITO COAST (Weir, 1986)

MAD MEN (various, 2007)

J. EDGAR (Eastwood, 2011)

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