Steven Soderbergh’s The Knick, Season1, Episode 5: “They Capture the Heat” is reviewed. Is a character at all redeemable after being revealed as a Klan-member? The hospital loses power as a baby gets a deadly disease that was telegraphed in an earlier episode. Can the hospital survive its financial woes? Is there such a good thing as a good father in critically-lauded vintage shows like these?

Ben Mankiewicz (Turner Classic Movies) and Alonso Duralde (TheWrap, Linoleum Knife podcast) discuss Episode 5 of The Knick.