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There’s more to Chris Sullivan than meets the eye. On the surface, the This Is Us star -- who plays the easygoing and lovable Toby, Kate’s fiance -- is carefree, playful and often the life of the party. But spend some time with him and the layers start to be peeled back, revealing a more nuanced, introspective man underneath.
“The word of our modern times is vulnerability and the show speaks a language of vulnerability -- whether that means putting yourself out there, whether that means being honest, whether that means telling someone the truth that they might not want to hear,” Sullivan tells Et. “In the past, I have assumed the word ‘vulnerability’ equates with the word ‘weakness’ and This Is Us shows us that it is in fact the opposite.”
As Toby, who, like Kate, deals with issues of weight and learned he had a hole in his heart in the first season...
“The word of our modern times is vulnerability and the show speaks a language of vulnerability -- whether that means putting yourself out there, whether that means being honest, whether that means telling someone the truth that they might not want to hear,” Sullivan tells Et. “In the past, I have assumed the word ‘vulnerability’ equates with the word ‘weakness’ and This Is Us shows us that it is in fact the opposite.”
As Toby, who, like Kate, deals with issues of weight and learned he had a hole in his heart in the first season...
- 9/26/2017
- Entertainment Tonight
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Bad news for fans of “The Knick:” Cinemax may be canceling the series after its second season. Although there is no official word from the network, it seems like Steven Soderbergh’s medical drama, starring Clive Owen, may not be returning for a third season.
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“Yeah, I’ve heard it’s done,” Chris Sullivan, who played ambulance driver Tom Cleary, told TVLine. “They were gonna try [to do a third season], but I’ve heard it’s done.”
The “This Is Us” star added, “I kind of love that British style: two seasons of tight, compact, good television. The more episodes you have, the thinner the episodes get. So I kind of dig that.”
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“Yeah, I’ve heard it’s done,” Chris Sullivan, who played ambulance driver Tom Cleary, told TVLine. “They were gonna try [to do a third season], but I’ve heard it’s done.”
The “This Is Us” star added, “I kind of love that British style: two seasons of tight, compact, good television. The more episodes you have, the thinner the episodes get. So I kind of dig that.”
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- 3/23/2017
- by Yoselin Acevedo
- Indiewire
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Like an alarming number of Dr. Thackery’s patients, The Knick seems to have drawn its last breath.
Although there’s no official word from Cinemax, it appears unlikely the Clive Owen-starring medical drama will return for a third season, according to This Is Us star Chris Sullivan, who played The Knick‘s gruff ambulance driver Tom Cleary.
RelatedCable/Streaming Renewal Scorecard: What’s Coming Back? What’s Cancelled? What’s On the Bubble?
“Yeah, I’ve heard it’s done,” Sullivan told TVLine on the PaleyFest red carpet. “They were gonna try [to do a third season], but I’ve heard it’s done.
Although there’s no official word from Cinemax, it appears unlikely the Clive Owen-starring medical drama will return for a third season, according to This Is Us star Chris Sullivan, who played The Knick‘s gruff ambulance driver Tom Cleary.
RelatedCable/Streaming Renewal Scorecard: What’s Coming Back? What’s Cancelled? What’s On the Bubble?
“Yeah, I’ve heard it’s done,” Sullivan told TVLine on the PaleyFest red carpet. “They were gonna try [to do a third season], but I’ve heard it’s done.
- 3/22/2017
- TVLine.com
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Before “The Knick” scatters its characters to the four winds, Steven Soderbergh offers one last, literal reminder that he thinks outside the box. When coarse ambulance driver Tom Cleary (Chris Sullivan) seeks counsel from a priest, his feet protrude from the confessional, and though his voice remains as sharp as if he were beside us, Soderbergh replaces the traditional depiction of penance—faint light filtering through the partition, illuminating a face wracked by guilt—with a far more ambiguous one.
Via a series of long, still compositions, venturing into the barren aisles and empty pews, the camera edges toward the opposite end of the cavernous nave, returning to the image of the Irishman’s shoes only when he reaches his reason for being there. In his slightly forlorn brogue, Cleary asks for a prayer that the disgraced Sister Harriet (Cara Seymour) accept his hand in marriage: He wants her to be his wife,...
Via a series of long, still compositions, venturing into the barren aisles and empty pews, the camera edges toward the opposite end of the cavernous nave, returning to the image of the Irishman’s shoes only when he reaches his reason for being there. In his slightly forlorn brogue, Cleary asks for a prayer that the disgraced Sister Harriet (Cara Seymour) accept his hand in marriage: He wants her to be his wife,...
- 7/20/2016
- by Matt Brennan
- Indiewire
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Is Clive Owen's character in The Knick capable of change? Here's our review of season 2's latest episode, You're No Rose...
This review contains spoilers.
2.2 You're No Rose
I don’t wanna start anew. I wanna continue on.
When, through eyefuls of tears, Lucy Elkins tells John Thackery that she wants to pick things up where they left them before his rehab, it comes, quite naturally, as a plea for love. However, in seeing their situation as a binary choice, the erstwhile lovers reveal something of the tension that suffuses this episode.
The most obvious example follows the pattern established by the above conversation; whether present events represent a break from the past or a continuation of them. Thackery arrives back at the Knick and with characteristic blunt arrogance, acts as though he can continue as before in a senior position. Worse yet, he intends to...
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Is Clive Owen's character in The Knick capable of change? Here's our review of season 2's latest episode, You're No Rose...
This review contains spoilers.
2.2 You're No Rose
I don’t wanna start anew. I wanna continue on.
When, through eyefuls of tears, Lucy Elkins tells John Thackery that she wants to pick things up where they left them before his rehab, it comes, quite naturally, as a plea for love. However, in seeing their situation as a binary choice, the erstwhile lovers reveal something of the tension that suffuses this episode.
The most obvious example follows the pattern established by the above conversation; whether present events represent a break from the past or a continuation of them. Thackery arrives back at the Knick and with characteristic blunt arrogance, acts as though he can continue as before in a senior position. Worse yet, he intends to...
- 1/21/2016
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
Due to a screening error we missed our recap of last week’s episode “There Are Rules.” But in brief, three major incidents transpired with one a deep tragedy. At the behest of his father, Dr. Bertram “Bertie” Chickering, Jr. (Michael Angarano) lost his mother. After trying to use radiation treatment therapy, Bertie attempted risky surgery to remove his mother's cancerous tumor, and she died in the middle of the operation. His boss, the conservative Dr. Levi Zinberg (Michael Nathanson) was outraged and Bertie resigned before he could be fired. Dr. John Thackery (Clive Owen) continued his obsession with trying to cure addiction, this time exploring hypnosis, but also seemingly taking on the weight of the world in hoping to cure and better everyone. While attending a circus sideshow, he discovered a pair of female conjoined twins, and with the help of Tom Cleary (Chris Sullivan), kidnapped them away from their “guardian” Mr.
- 11/30/2015
- by Rodrigo Perez
- The Playlist
The Knick, Season 2, Episode 4, “Wonderful Surprises”
Written by Jack Amiel and Michael Begler
Directed by Steven Soderbergh
Airs Fridays at 8pm (Et) on Cinemax
There couldn’t be a more apt title for the latest episode of The Knick, as “Wonderful Surprises” delivers a bevy of shocks and revelations at every turn this week.
First up is Dr. Mays (Ben Livingston), whose perversions became enough of a distraction as to cause his own demise in a hideous and fiery flash. The accident spells a surprising end for a character who had scarcely arrived. The same can be said for Lucy’s father, another new addition who has disappeared as quickly as he came. Are we to guess that writers Jack Amiel and Michael Beglar had second thoughts about these new characters while in the creative process? Their quick introductions and sudden exits certainly seem to suggest as much.
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Written by Jack Amiel and Michael Begler
Directed by Steven Soderbergh
Airs Fridays at 8pm (Et) on Cinemax
There couldn’t be a more apt title for the latest episode of The Knick, as “Wonderful Surprises” delivers a bevy of shocks and revelations at every turn this week.
First up is Dr. Mays (Ben Livingston), whose perversions became enough of a distraction as to cause his own demise in a hideous and fiery flash. The accident spells a surprising end for a character who had scarcely arrived. The same can be said for Lucy’s father, another new addition who has disappeared as quickly as he came. Are we to guess that writers Jack Amiel and Michael Beglar had second thoughts about these new characters while in the creative process? Their quick introductions and sudden exits certainly seem to suggest as much.
Dr. Thackery...
- 11/7/2015
- by Mike Worby
- SoundOnSight
The Knick, Season 2, Episode 2, “You’re No Rose”
Written by Jack Amiel and Michael Begler
Directed by Steven Soderbergh
Airs Fridays at 8pm (Et) on Cinemax
As The Knick entered the second episode of its second season, it seems fitting that this is an hour which barters for the notion of second chances. Most notably in the case of Dr. John Thackery (Clive Owen), who makes a (somewhat) triumphant return to the Knick after his unorthodox treatment, but also in the cases of Sister Harriet (Cara Seymour) and Cornelia Showalter (Juliet Rylance), the former of which might escape the legal system yet, and the latter of whom has only just returned to New York herself.
However, with all of that said, it is Tom Cleary (Chris Sullivan) who shines best in The Knick‘s sophomore effort. While his idea to upgrade the Knickerbocker’s ambulance service may have initially seemed like a solid one,...
Written by Jack Amiel and Michael Begler
Directed by Steven Soderbergh
Airs Fridays at 8pm (Et) on Cinemax
As The Knick entered the second episode of its second season, it seems fitting that this is an hour which barters for the notion of second chances. Most notably in the case of Dr. John Thackery (Clive Owen), who makes a (somewhat) triumphant return to the Knick after his unorthodox treatment, but also in the cases of Sister Harriet (Cara Seymour) and Cornelia Showalter (Juliet Rylance), the former of which might escape the legal system yet, and the latter of whom has only just returned to New York herself.
However, with all of that said, it is Tom Cleary (Chris Sullivan) who shines best in The Knick‘s sophomore effort. While his idea to upgrade the Knickerbocker’s ambulance service may have initially seemed like a solid one,...
- 10/25/2015
- by Mike Worby
- SoundOnSight
The Knick, Season 2, Episode 1, “Ten Knots”
Written by Jack Amiel and Michael Begler
Directed by Steven Soderbergh
Airs Fridays at 8pm (Et) on Cinemax
The Knick has returned for its second season, and anyone fearing that the grotesquely involving surgery scenes might take a backseat during a plot-heavy premiere need not hold their breath. On the contrary, “Ten Knots” boasts two of the series’ most squirmy scenes, reminding viewers with quick precision why this medical drama is in contention with Hannibal for having the most gruesome sequences to ever light a television tube.
First is a scene where Clive Owen’s Dr. John Thackery finishes up on another patient in receipt of his patented nose reattachment surgery. The makeup work is insanely realistic here, as Thackery peels up a layer of skin on the girl’s face before using tools to break the nostrils into his creation. Even with the patient obviously subdued,...
Written by Jack Amiel and Michael Begler
Directed by Steven Soderbergh
Airs Fridays at 8pm (Et) on Cinemax
The Knick has returned for its second season, and anyone fearing that the grotesquely involving surgery scenes might take a backseat during a plot-heavy premiere need not hold their breath. On the contrary, “Ten Knots” boasts two of the series’ most squirmy scenes, reminding viewers with quick precision why this medical drama is in contention with Hannibal for having the most gruesome sequences to ever light a television tube.
First is a scene where Clive Owen’s Dr. John Thackery finishes up on another patient in receipt of his patented nose reattachment surgery. The makeup work is insanely realistic here, as Thackery peels up a layer of skin on the girl’s face before using tools to break the nostrils into his creation. Even with the patient obviously subdued,...
- 10/17/2015
- by Mike Worby
- SoundOnSight
![Jack Amiel, Michael Angarano, Michael Begler, David Fierro, Eric Johnson, Clive Owen, Molly Price, Reg Rogers, Perry Yung, Juliet Rylance, Eve Hewson, Zuzanna Szadkowski, André Holland, Maya Kazan, Leila Jean Davis, Melissa O'Donnell, Ying Ying Li, and Morgan Assante in The Knick (2014)](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMTQ5NzcyNDc5MV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwMDMyOTY5NjE@._V1_QL75_UX140_CR0,0,140,207_.jpg)
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I spent much of the first season of "The Knick" wondering why Steven Soderbergh had chosen this, of all shows, to be his next passion project. Here was an Oscar-winning director, doing his first TV project in a decade (following HBO's short-lived "K Street"), understandably being given carte blanche by Cinemax to direct, shoot, and edit every episode himself, and he had for some reason picked a show with a relatively novel setting (a New York hospital circa 1900) but filled with stock characters, including a drug-addled anti-hero in Clive Owen's surgeon John Thackery, and other devices familiar from the last 15 years of cable drama. It looked fantastic and had great performances from Owen, Andre Holland (as a black surgeon whose skills aren't properly appreciated in a less enlightened era), and others, but it was hard to shake the feeling that the writing (mainly by creators Jack Amiel and Michael Begler...
- 10/15/2015
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Hitfix
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Endings are difficult. For its final first-season episode, “Crutchfield” (written by Jack Amiel and Michael Begler; directed, edited and photographed by Steven Soderbergh), Cinemax’s period hospital drama The Knick attempts to tie off a number of lingering narrative threads, and this it does — though in ways that feel, in toto, extremely conventional. This has been a problem that I’ve remarked on through the run of the series: The scripts rarely live up to Soderbergh’s extraordinary craft. His constant inventiveness (finding new ways of seeing in almost every scene) only underscores the many flaws of the storytelling.Consider that the emotional high point of “Crutchfield” comes early when Cornelia Robertson — having paid for a dead-of-night procedure to terminate her and Dr. Algernon Edwards’s unborn child — stumbles into Tom Cleary and Sister Harriet’s underground abortion operation. Cleary is tickled by this turn of events, but it’s...
- 10/18/2014
- by Keith Uhlich
- Vulture
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One of the most delightful characters in Steven Soderbergh’s show The Knick is Tom Cleary, a boozy, foulmouthed, pipe-smoking ambulance driver. Played with aplomb by Chris Sullivan, Cleary engages in some of the more memorable sequences of the show, insulting nuns or stomping rats or trying to weasel more money out of the hospital. But he isn’t a villain, exactly. He may be greedy and selfish, but he’s also willing to help out Sister Harriet (Cara Seymour) with her illegal abortion practice, just so the girls get the care they deserve (well, that and to make a little extra scratch on the side). Sullivan rang up Vulture to discuss the fun of playing Cleary, the fascinating relationship between his character and Sister Harriet, and Cleary’s heroic actions during the riot. [Note: This interview contains spoilers through episode seven of The Knick.]You pulled that ambulance all by yourself in the middle of a riot.Yeah!
- 10/6/2014
- by Alex Suskind
- Vulture
![Jack Amiel, Michael Angarano, Michael Begler, David Fierro, Eric Johnson, Clive Owen, Molly Price, Reg Rogers, Perry Yung, Juliet Rylance, Eve Hewson, Zuzanna Szadkowski, André Holland, Maya Kazan, Leila Jean Davis, Melissa O'Donnell, Ying Ying Li, and Morgan Assante in The Knick (2014)](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMTQ5NzcyNDc5MV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwMDMyOTY5NjE@._V1_QL75_UX140_CR0,0,140,207_.jpg)
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We're heading into the home stretch for "The Knick" season 1, and tonight's episode was both the last one I saw before I wrote my initial review, and the most satisfying of those. Some thoughts on both "Get the Rope" and season 1 to date coming up just as soon as I write a love poem to the suction machine... "The Knick" is a period piece that's tried to make clear that our stodgy past was the thrilling, scary present for Thack and the other characters. But if there's a lot of forward momentum within individual episodes — this one in particular — the season as a whole has taken its sweet time moving stories forward. The big arc of the season has been Dr. Edwards' struggle to gain Thackery's respect and be allowed to practice medicine to the best of his ability. And while it feels realistic that Edwards wouldn't be accepted overnight...
- 9/27/2014
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Hitfix
The Knick, Season 1, Episode 3: “The Busy Flea”
Written by Jack Amiel & Michael Begler
Directed by Steven Soderbergh
Airs Fridays on Cinemax at 8Pm Est on Cinemax
While the new Cinemax series, The Knick, has had a promising run thus far, one would be hard pressed to deny the fact that it has been a bit uneventful. All of that has changed with the highly charged third episode however.
Beginning with Thackery receiving a visit from an old flame, “The Busy Flea” quickly sets the stage for a different kind of story. For one thing, Thackery’s former lover is not dropping by the Knick to catch up, but for a favor; the kind that only a surgeon can provide. The viewer knows right from the outset that there’s something amiss about this woman from the reaction of the admitting nurse. Soderbergh plays with the audience for a moment...
Written by Jack Amiel & Michael Begler
Directed by Steven Soderbergh
Airs Fridays on Cinemax at 8Pm Est on Cinemax
While the new Cinemax series, The Knick, has had a promising run thus far, one would be hard pressed to deny the fact that it has been a bit uneventful. All of that has changed with the highly charged third episode however.
Beginning with Thackery receiving a visit from an old flame, “The Busy Flea” quickly sets the stage for a different kind of story. For one thing, Thackery’s former lover is not dropping by the Knick to catch up, but for a favor; the kind that only a surgeon can provide. The viewer knows right from the outset that there’s something amiss about this woman from the reaction of the admitting nurse. Soderbergh plays with the audience for a moment...
- 8/24/2014
- by Mike Worby
- SoundOnSight
![Jack Amiel, Michael Angarano, Michael Begler, David Fierro, Eric Johnson, Clive Owen, Molly Price, Reg Rogers, Perry Yung, Juliet Rylance, Eve Hewson, Zuzanna Szadkowski, André Holland, Maya Kazan, Leila Jean Davis, Melissa O'Donnell, Ying Ying Li, and Morgan Assante in The Knick (2014)](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMTQ5NzcyNDc5MV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwMDMyOTY5NjE@._V1_QL75_UX140_CR0,0,140,207_.jpg)
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Early in the new Cinemax drama "The Knick," Dr. John Thackery boasts of "the astonishing modern world in which we live," insisting that "We now live in a time of endless possibility. More has been learned about the human body in the last five years than in the previous 500." What is such an astonishing time to him is a very quaint one for us, since "The Knick" (it premieres Friday at 10) takes place in Manhattan in the year 1900. Viewed through a modern lens, Thackery's surgical techniques seem primitive, even barbarous, but in the context of his time — when a procedure we take for granted like an appendectomy is still considered dangerous and experimental — he and his colleagues are miracle workers. "The Knick" arrives in an era where the possibilities for television drama are as limitless as they were for medicine in 1900. It's a period where a Matthew McConaughey can commit...
- 8/6/2014
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Hitfix
I’m really excited for The Knick, a historical medical drama starring Clive Owen and directed by Steven Soderbergh, which Cinemax will be unveiling in August. This is the same network we jokingly call Skinemax, and which features action-packed, nudity-heavy series like Strike Back, Hunted and Banshee. However, The Knick definitely looks like a promising new start for the network in a new trailer for the series.
In the trailer, we’re introduced to the high-pressure, high-stakes existence of Dr. John W. Thackery (Owen), a doctor at New York’s Knickerbocker Hospital in the early twentieth century. As he pushes to expand the known boundaries of modern medicine, he encounters a myriad of personal and professional dilemmas.
The main draw for a lot of viewers will probably be Owen, who looks like he’s perfectly suited for this gritty role, but I’m most excited to see Soderbergh’s direction on the series.
In the trailer, we’re introduced to the high-pressure, high-stakes existence of Dr. John W. Thackery (Owen), a doctor at New York’s Knickerbocker Hospital in the early twentieth century. As he pushes to expand the known boundaries of modern medicine, he encounters a myriad of personal and professional dilemmas.
The main draw for a lot of viewers will probably be Owen, who looks like he’s perfectly suited for this gritty role, but I’m most excited to see Soderbergh’s direction on the series.
- 6/18/2014
- by Isaac Feldberg
- We Got This Covered
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