‘The Knick’s Clive Owen On Dr. Thackery & Season Two: “We Left Him In A Pretty Desperate State”

From its opening bloody scene in a 1900-era hospital operating theatre, to the drug-addled end of season one, The Knick spared no one—much like the expansive and industrial era in American history that it depicts. At the blackened heart of the Steven Soderbergh-directed series stands Clive Owen as the crazed and brilliant Dr. John Thackery. Taking over as the head of New York City's Knickerbocker Hospital surgery staff following the suicide of his mentor, Thackery sought…

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