: Steven Soderbergh directed, shot, and edited all 10 episodes himself. This gives the season an incredibly cohesive, atmospheric, and modern aesthetic despite its 1900 setting.

: The series pulls no punches in showing the brutal, gory reality of turn-of-the-century medicine before antibiotics.

: Clive Owen is magnetic as the brilliant but severely cocaine-addicted chief surgeon Dr. John Thackery. André Holland provides a brilliant counter-performance as Dr. Algernon Edwards, fighting both medical boundaries and systemic racism.

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