Warning: Full spoilers for the episode follow...
In keeping with 2014's cable TV movement of auteur-driven seasons featuring "same director and/or same writer" - like HBO's True Detective and FX's Fargo - Steven Soderbergh took us on a grand, gritty tour of "turn of the twentieth century" medicine and socio-economics with Cinemax's The Knick.
And while Soderbergh's leap to TV may seem like the biggest "get" since David Fincher brought House of Cards to Netflix, he didn't make a full transition. The fact that the entire 10-episode first season was shot like one long 10-hour feature film, completely out of order (for example: all the scenes that took place in Thackery's house were filmed in a row, and so on) is both impressive and indicative of someone with a particular style and mode simply translating that - perhaps even square peg/round hole style - to a different medium.
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