The Knick Renewed for Season 2 by Cinemax

Cinemax has announced that period drama The Knick has been renewed for a 10-episode second season a month in advance of its series premiere.

Created by Jack Amiel, Michael Begler, and Gregory Jacobs, The Knick centers on the surgeons, nurses, and staff at Knickerbocker Hospital as they deal with high mortality rates and zero antibiotics. While Dr. John Thackery (Clive Owen) wrestles with an opiate addiction and ambitions to do great things in his profession, Dr. Algernon Edwards (Andre Holland) must fight for respect in an all-white hospital that’s been less than hospitable to him. In addition to Owen and Holland, The Knick stars Juliet Rylance (Sinister), Eve Hewson (This Must Be the Place), Michael Angarano (Will & Grace), Chris Sullivan (The Normal Heart), and Cara Seymour (An Education).

The series premiere of The Knick is set to air Friday, August 8th at 10:00 on Cinemax. You can check out a trailer for the series here, as well as spoilers for the first three episodes below.

FRIDAY, AUG. 8 (10:00-11:00 p.m. ET/PT) – “Method and Madness”
In 1900, John W. Thackery (Clive Owen), a brilliant yet tortured doctor working at the Knickerbocker Hospital in New York, ascends to the role of chief surgeon after the unexpected departure of his mentor, J.M. Christiansen (Matt Frewer). Though Thackery wants Everett Gallinger (Eric Johnson), his own protégé, to take over the assistant chief position, Cornelia Robertson (Juliet Rylance), daughter of the hospital’s major benefactor, insists he hire Algernon Edwards (André Holland), a talented black doctor who trained in London and Paris. Edwards encounters enmity and resentment on his first day at the Knick, but his desire to remain prevails after joining Thackery, Gallinger, Dr. Bertram “Bertie” Chickering, Jr. (Michael Angarano) and Nurse Lucy Elkins (Eve Hewson) in the operating theater for a daring surgical procedure.
Other CINEMAX playdates: Aug. 8 (11:00 p.m., midnight, 2:30 a.m.), 9 (9:00 p.m., 12:05 a.m.), 10 (12:15 p.m.), 11 (8:00 p.m., 12:45 a.m.), 12 (10:00 p.m.), 13 (9:00 p.m.), 20 (8:00 p.m.), 27 (7:00 p.m.), 29 (8:00 p.m.) and 31 (2:30 p.m.)

FRIDAY, AUG. 15 (10:00-11:00 p.m.) – “Mr. Paris Shoes”
Already fuming over the hospital’s faulty new electrical system, Thackery tasks Herman Barrow (Jeremy Bobb), the Knick’s crooked superintendent, to deliver more cadavers so that he and his team can test out novel surgical procedures. With more patients dying, Edwards offers to share a procedure he learned in France, but is rebuffed by Thackery and Gallinger. Robertson addresses a typhoid-fever outbreak; Elkins is taken into Thackery’s confidence; Sister Harriet (Cara Seymour) breaks a taboo. Edwards finds an alternative way to perform his duties.
Other CINEMAX playdates: Aug. 15 (11:00 p.m., 1:15 a.m.), 16 (9:00 p.m., midnight), 17 (12:50 p.m.), 18 (8:00 p.m., 12:30 a.m.), 19 (10:00 p.m.), 20 (9:00 p.m.), 27 (8:00 p.m.), 29 (9:00 p.m.) and 31 (3:30 p.m.)

FRIDAY, AUG. 22 (10:00-11:00 p.m.) – “The Busy Flea”
Thackery weighs performing surgery on a former flame, and orders Gallinger and Chickering to experiment on pigs. Barrow goes to extremes in order to pay off a debt and recover a missing tooth. After a bad day at work, Edwards takes out his frustrations at a local bar. Robertson is relieved when her pleas about treating a patient with typhoid fever are finally heard.
Other CINEMAX playdates: Aug. 22 (11:00 p.m., 1:40 a.m.), 23 (9:00 p.m., 12:10 a.m.), 24 (2:40 p.m.), 25 (8:00 p.m., 1:40 a.m.), 26 (10:00 p.m.), 27 (8:50 p.m.), 29 (9:50 p.m.) and 31 (4:20 p.m.)