Turkey farmers will be coining it this Christmas.

If “Manhattan” shoots unusual subject matter in a familiar style, Cinemax’s “The Knick,” returning on Friday, takes a much-visited genre, the medical drama, and renders it transfixingly new.

Close up, either full-face or in profile, he was surpassingly handsome, even spectacularly so.

As for the starveling rebels of our region, they soon began to reappear in town, more starved and abject, their blackened rags hanging on them[…]