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jeffrey_pdx

(222 posts) Mon Oct 13, 2014, 08:22 PM Oct 2014

Does anyone watch The Knick?

I wasn't sure about at first, but I've come to really like it.

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Does anyone watch The Knick? (Original Post) jeffrey_pdx Oct 2014 OP

One of my favorites. GeorgeGist Oct 2014 #1

It's great! It can best be described by a word seldom used these days: Lurid friendly_iconoclast Oct 2014 #2

I DVR it every week. jeffrey_pdx Oct 2014 #3

Lurid is a good word... hlthe2b Oct 2014 #4

GeorgeGist

(25,311 posts)

1. One of my favorites.

Reply to jeffrey_pdx (Original post)

Mon Oct 13, 2014, 08:35 PM

Oct 2014

Love old-time medicine. Hopefully they're being reasonably factual in their depictions.

friendly_iconoclast

(15,333 posts)

2. It's great! It can best be described by a word seldom used these days: Lurid

Reply to jeffrey_pdx (Original post)

Mon Oct 13, 2014, 11:52 PM

Oct 2014

jeffrey_pdx

(222 posts)

3. I DVR it every week.

Reply to friendly_iconoclast (Reply #2)

Thu Oct 16, 2014, 01:25 AM

Oct 2014

I started watching the newest episode. And realized I wasn't in the right mood to watch it. Lurid is a really good word for it.

hlthe2b

(102,123 posts)

4. Lurid is a good word...

Reply to friendly_iconoclast (Reply #2)

Sat Oct 18, 2014, 12:45 PM

Oct 2014

The ugliness of the time (including the reality of very poor sanitation) comes through quite clearly. BBC had a show (Copper) that, though it took place during civil war era NYC, was likewise quite realistic to the times, including what it really would have been like when the streets were the latrines. I've always thought the past decade's myriad westerns and other period pieces on tv and movies were rendered pretty ridiculous by their failure to even minimally address those realities.

So, I give it kudos for the gritty realism, even though I'm often cringing.... ewwww!

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