I accidentally watched the season 1 finale of The Knick as my first episode. I was incredibly impressed by the bold, uncompromising narrative choices the show made. It was barely telling me character names, much less why they were doing things. After that, the actual pilot felt like child's play.

That's the added value of the show for me, specifically him and his parents. The rest of the cast looks like this: Ashton Kutcher (fine, but a pretty broad character), Mila Kunis (same as Kutcher), Laura Prepon (also fine, but she's not as funny as the others), Wilmer Valderrama (no thanks, funny foreigner character was about 10 years expired even when the show came out) and Danny Masterson (never liked him or found him funny, pretty validated there).

So I'd say yeah, Topher and his parents are kind of the whole show, if we're being honest.

They have been for some time, metaphorically speaking.

I know i shouldn't laugh, but i'm imagining this college kid riding on the train from Missouri all across this great country, getting to New York, awed by it all, going to a glamorous hotel, finding his room, then the instant he opens the door there's a crazed middle aged rich pervert rushing at him with a sex whip.

I still remember reading about Venus in sports illustrated for kids and they mentioned offhand that she had a younger sister who played and my reaction was yeah whatever bet she's a fuckin BUM lol.

All time take from 7 year old me.

I agree it looks weird but it actually matches the source pic as far as I can tell. Maybe the mag was so strange because it was custom?

This isn't watering down the term. Diverting and wasting millions of dollars that could've actually benefitted the climate is absolutely disastrous.

True multi hyphenate