# The Knick: Season Two

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [October 17, 2015, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-knick-season-two/734883 "2015-10-17T07:00:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![VarlosZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d78d45/32.png) [@VarlosZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VarlosZ)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2015, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-knick-season-two/734883/1 "2015-10-17T07:00:01Z")

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The season premiere was last night. It feels weird having one of these prestige cable dramas airing on Fridays; aren’t they all supposed to be on Sunday?  
I rather enjoyed the first season. A heavy dose of grimness is built into the show’s DNA, but I hope they find some way to provide moments of lightness or relief, and can avoid falling into an “everything and everyone is irretrievably fucked & hopeless” cycle; I don’t know if I can stick with a show like that, no matter how much I like the direction, music, etc.

I was curious to see how they’d handle Thack’s opiate withdrawal. I mentioned it a little in [last year’s thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=731489), but they made kind of a baffling error last year. The symptoms of cocaine withdrawal are primarily fatigue and depression: basically, Thackery should have been nodding off in meetings. The symptoms they portrayed, however – restlessness, aches, cold sweats, etc. – were a textbook example of opiate withdrawal.

So, what the heck were they going to do when he \*actually \*goes through opiate withdrawal? It seems they copped out of the problem: during his very brief detox, Thack just seemed irritable. Meh. Not that important, I guess.  
Anyway, I liked the first episode just fine, and I’m looking forward to the season. Anyone else following it?

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**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2015, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-knick-season-two/734883/2 "2015-10-17T13:41:41Z")

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I thought the first season was not bad, but I thought they over-stuffed it just a bit with melodramatic subplots. They could have saved some of them for season 2.