Soderbergh Ep. 27: The Knick Season 1 (2014) with Dave Maher

TV time! Almost immediately after "retiring" from feature films, Steven Soderbergh directed ten episodes of THE KNICK, a period medical drama for Cinemax about the early days of modern surgery. Joining us to talk about nearly ten hours of television is comedian and host of the podcast This Is Your Afterlife, Dave Maher! We have a wide-ranging discussion covering everything from prestige television antiheroes to addiction to chronic illness to racial disparities in medical care to what Kimi would like to do with Dave if she ever gets him alone. It's a real fun extra-long episode, and still probably our lowest ep-length-to-subject-length ratio ever. Take off your white shoe and dig in! Further Reading: "No Leeches, No Rusty Saw, But Hell Nonetheless" by Alessandra Stanley The Knick: Anatomy of a Series by Steven Soderbergh et al. "The Binge Director" by Matt Zoller-Seitz "Meet the Man Who Makes Sure The Knick Is Medically Accurate" by Marcus Jones "Syphilis Noses and Finding the Right Dirt: The Knick's Production Designer on Making the Show Look Real" by Matt Patches "'The Knick' Creators on How They Went From Writing Studio Rom-Coms to Steven Soderbergh's New TV Show" by Ben Travers Further Viewing: ER (1994) GANGS OF NEW YORK (Scorsese, 2002) MAD MEN (2007) THE PITT (2025) Follow Dave Maher: https://thisisyourafterlife.com/ https://x.com/ThisIsDaveMaher https://www.instagram.com/thisisyourafterlife/ https://www.instagram.com/thisisdavemaher/ Follow Pod Casty For Me: https://www.podcastyforme.com https://twitter.com/podcastyforme https://www.instagram.com/podcastyforme/ https://www.youtube.com/@podcastyforme Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PodCastyForMe Artwork by Jeremy Allison: https://www.instagram.com/jeremyallisonart