We know that actor is not Matt Fewer because he is the one who plays the Dr. Christiansen in the current series.
I’m looking for the actor who looks very much like this one but is not Matt Frewer. Thanks very much for your guess anyway. If you have another, please feel free to let me know. Thank you.
Thanks also, for the link to the earlier thread. That is an excellent picture!
I really liked this show when it was about the early advances in medicine, which were fascinating, and made me really glad I live in 2014. For a while, I was calling this the “dead baby” show in my head, what with all the placenta previa death’s and poor Gallinger’s daughter.
Though it seems to have devolved into a soap opera.
It’s explained in the show that he was the son of her parents’ servants and that they grew up together and were very close before he left for Paris.
The fact that Cornelia, who is intelligent, educated and a social worker, is surprised that she ends up pregnant and with no options other than an abortion is beyond my belief. I mean, what did she think was going to happen? Especially since she rejects Edwards’s suggestion that they run away to Paris together.
She’s also two timing her fiancée, whose only crimes we’ve seen so far are 1. Wanting to move to San Francisco, and 2. Having an uber-creepy father.
And then there’s sweet Nurse Lucy, who seduces Thackery despite knowing he’s completely addicted to cocaine, and has at least one ex dying of an STD. (Does he ever reassure her the ex got it after him?) And she continues to let the adorable Dr. Chickering court her despite her prostituting herself for Thack’s cocaine habit. Ugh.
I can’t keep Christianson and Gallinger straight in my head. Their names are interchangeable for some reason. I keep wondering “Is that the guy that killed himself, or the racist blond doctor that you still feel sorry for?”
I’m glad Thackery finally found a good strong woman. His heroine will pull him through!
…what…?
Skara_Brae,
Thanks very much for your fine post. I learned quite a bit from that. I’d like to try to give you my POV on some of your issues. Please understand I am no expert having only watched most episodes once and perhaps having missed some of the info there. However, I’d like to say …
Your “prostituting” issue seems to me to depend on our definition of prostitution. We many well have different definitions. When you speak of Lucy “prostituting” herself, I’m not at all sure that is what happened. Granted, I could easily be wrong, but the gist of Lucy’s conversation with the Chinese gangster (sorry I forgot his name) was that he wanted her to put her foot in his mouth. I know that it was quite common for Chinese men to have foot fetishes with younger women and they enjoyed touching/stroking etc. the young woman’s feet. Actually, it’s quite common for all men. However, it may be more common for Chinese men to discuss this more openly?
You know the Chinese custom/obsession with foot binding? Bottom line, is it ever made clear that she really did prostitute herself? We may well have different definitions of prostitution. I wouldn’t consider it to be prostitution if all that happened was that he played around with her feet. Many men say they enjoy giving women foot rubs or foot massages. My guess is that a large majority of these men actually have more serious foot fetishes and want to take things further. But they will only do that in private. So, it’s hard to know the truth.
Did the audience ever learn that she was having some form of sexual relations with the Chinese gangster? Or perhaps, we disagree whether putting her foot/feet into his mouth constitutes sexual relations? I may well have missed that part of the show and I’m sorry if I’m leading anyone down the garden path.
Also, someone referred to “some lady” having all her teeth pulled. Am I mistaken or was that not in fact Dr. Gallinger’s wife Eleanor? The doctor/psychiatrist/whatever he was said that she had “gone mad”. I think she was leaning towards madness right from the start. But can anyone confirm that was Gallinger’s wife? If so, I would expect some kind of serious issue to develop between the Eleanor and the Gallingers.
And how about that doctor/psychiatrist/whatever he was? What a whack job! But that may just go to show how different things were in 1900 and maybe we cannot be too quick to judge things? Today, that man would certainly be locked up. Either in a jail or a mental ward? Wouldn’t he? He was just right out of his mind. Wow!
Anyway, Season One ends with a few issues that need to be resolved. I really can’t wait for Season Two.
Thank you very much for your post. I’m sure that I will have more to say in a few days and I hope you may be willing to discus some of your issues.
Skara_Brae,
You are certainly correct about Dr. Edwards and Cornelia. As you said, they grew up together. His mother was the cook in the house and his father was the driver of the horse & carriage. Her father was Captain August Robertson and was introduced as a wealthy man.
If anything was ever said about her mother, I must have missed it. As far as I know, nothing was ever said about her mother.
Merged duplicate threads.
I thought it was an interesting series, but I think they kind of overstuffed it with enough lurid details for four or five seasons.
I also had the same issue that I have with any kind of workplace ensemble show (e.g. Mad Men, L.A. Law, The Office) – whenever the action moves out of the workplace and they follow one or two characters at a time, my interest drops by about 50%.
Also, whenever I hear Clive Owen talk in an American accent, I keep expecting him to say “Deadly little Miho” or “My warrior woman” or something like that.
Just finished watching the whole season this weekend since my coworker recommended it. LOVED it! I knew Clive Owen had done a tv series called The Knick last yr since he was featured in GQ last Oct (and I solely bought it cuz of Norman Reedus’s cover) but had know idea what it was about. I’m shocked that no media hyper about it. I’m guessing that HBO passed it onto Cinemax (HBO produces it right) to throw them some clout and rebrand them beyond Skinamax.
Should I be stunned nobody mentioned Lucy is played by Bono’s daughter? She looks like a younger Rachel Weisz! And she could have kept her Irish accent with the Hi Irish population immigrating to NY back then, but does history indicate the Irish would not be working as nurses? (more factory work back then?)
I’ll include spoilers since it has been a yr since airing but keep the finale quiet. I had not idea why the woman ( played by Jennifer Ferrin, did not recognize her here ) had a black nose until the reveal. Why not make prosthetics flesh colored? And dang it the procedure she endured, guess they thought the forehead skin was too thin for that back in those days.
As a medical professional, aghast at using bare hands to operate (and kinda inaccurate cuz by 1901 rubber gloves were in use) But at least they did handwashing haha. And folks talking over the patient in surgery and spitting all over them, yup gouged by eyes out there but didn’t heave at the guts and glood. The part that I wished I had watched as a regular viewer and not with my medical background was the ending with the whole “this is from Bayer reveal”