THE OFFICIAL THE KNICK SEASON 2 THREAD - COCAINE THACK IS BACK MY KNICKAS

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hexagram23 said:
What if Gallinger is secretly the main character of "The Knick" and the entire series is the origin story of Mr. Sinister? :ohhh:

Anyway, reading through the thread since the last ep....maybe I missed it but nobody commented on the bubonic plague cover up? That's huge.

Also I think they're handling the Elkins stuff fine. When "Boardwalk" tried to do it with Margaret it was a train wreck. I'm always kinda leery with these large cast prestige dramas....there's a chance they'll unnecessarily focus on some random character. I love "The Sopranos" but I was bored to tears watching Meadow argue with Finn, shyt like that can be :comeon: if there's more interesting stuff going on.

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I said that the moment they fished ol' dude out of the water because it seemed obvious since he was investigating the seriousness of the plague in the harbor.:yeshrug:
 
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hashmander said:
this show man:blessed:


i love how wu tang puts the stack between his fingers and counts.

i'm glad they went through that kinda doctoring so we don't have to go through that. just casually cut out a piece of a man's brain because it's a source of pleasure. it can't possibly control anything else. trial and error brehs. the less said about that scum gallinger the better.
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This show makes me thankful for modern medicine and modern times in general :whew:

With regards to addiction and psychological disorders there's still a long way to go but you got doctors prescribing heroin to cocaine addicts, removing sections of the brain, removing teeth from the mentally ill, neutering non-Anglos because of racism and misinformation. There's some serious caveman shyt that went down back then.
 
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Henry being a porn addict is fukking :mjlol:

Elkins battling being a feminazi doctor and thot nurse is gonna be interesting to watch. Henry is a good foe for her plans.

I'm glad they are giving the bubonic plague story a slow burn. I really don't wanna see Cornelia playing detective for more than 3 minutes per episode.

How long did it take to throw the Eugenics morons to the bushes? That shyt is too demonic :damn:
 
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Jmare007 said:
Henry Flint :wow:

I kinda meant in the US. Was it still a thing when shyt got real in Germany?
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World War 2 more or less put a nail in the coffin for it on a mainstream level. Hilter going full retard with it kinda soured it for a lot of people.

However....

In the 1970s, several activists and women's rights groups discovered several physicians to be performing coerced sterilizations of specific ethnic groups of society. All were abuses of poor, nonwhite, or mentally retarded women, while no abuses against white or middle-class women were recorded. Although the sterilizations were not explicitly motivated by eugenics, the sterilizations were similar to the eugenics movement because they were done without the patients' consent.

For example, in 1972, United States Senate committee testimony brought to light that at least 2,000 involuntary sterilizations had been performed on poor black women without their consent or knowledge. An investigation revealed that the surgeries were all performed in the South, and were all performed on black welfare mothers with multiple children. Testimony revealed that many of these women were threatened with an end to their welfare benefits until they consented to sterilization. These surgeries were instances of sterilization abuse, a term applied to any sterilization performed without the consent or knowledge of the recipient, or in which the recipient is pressured into accepting the surgery. Because the funds used to carry out the surgeries came from the U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity, the sterilization abuse raised older suspicions, especially amongst the black community, that "federal programs were underwriting eugenicists who wanted to impose their views about population quality on minorities and poor women."

Native American women were also victims of sterilization abuse up into the 1970s. The organization WARN (Women of All Red Nations) publicized that Native American women were threatened that, if they had more children, they would be denied welfare benefits. The Indian Health Service also repeatedly refused to deliver Native American babies until their mothers, in labor, consented to sterilization. Many Native American women unknowingly gave consent, since directions were not given in their native language. According to the General Accounting Office, an estimate of 3,406 Indian women were sterilized. The General Accounting Office stated that the Indian Health Service had not followed the necessary regulations, and that the "informed consent forms did not adhere to the standards set by the United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW)."
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Bertie coming back had me dying.

Bertie: fukk research and studying and shyt, I need that Knickerbock fukkery back in my life.:wow:

Thack: Now now Bertie, you my Knicka and all but we're not as reckless anymore as you'd think. :youngsabo:

Bertie: Knicka, Algernon told me you performed surgery with a telephone last week! :childplease:

Thack: Damn right I did! Welcome back. :blessed:


Meanwhile Cleary getting his :troll: on with the hypnosis and always up for some breaking and enterting and crowbars to the face fukkery. :russ:

Barrow stays getting played by that hooker. 'Yeah, this free apartment is nice and all but deep down I know you can simp harder.' :sas2:

Bertie's mom was a goner before this ep but I did like how they at least reaffirmed that despite being a non-risk taking p*ssy, Zinberg is still a supreme surgeon.

Anyone else thought that Gallinger's wife maybe poisoned the doc? That whole scene was a bit weird, but I love seeing Gallinger furious.:salute:

And I just came to realize this episode that Cornelia might actually be causing her father's downfall with her investigation. There was the convo a couple episodes back between Henry and his dad about the subway investment and Henry low-key mentioned they should be selling all those old ships they own instead of spending money to repair them. Which means their family money is in the harbor and shipping yards, the same business that will take a huge hit if Cornelia is successful in exposing the cover up of how wide-spread the plague is in the harbor. I suspect once word gets out she's making the rounds, her pops is gonna have a stern talk to her about messing with the 'way of the world'.
 
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the fukkery never stops...even with no cocaine influenced hijinks

the conjoined twins..incest..sexual abuse...cleary asking them how they took a shyt (this got a welven da great type laugh from me :bryan:)
the fukkery doc at gallingers house at dinner..dude was outchea sweating while gallinger was throwing that shade..:huhldup: at the fukkery doc's cure for a hypochondriac
the nuns at that shelter stealing that 3 bucks a week...i want to see a comeuppance
bertie's mom :to:
give handjobs for ball invitations brehettes
 
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