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68 DGA QUARTERLY PHOTOS: (TOP) MARY CYBULSKI/CINEMAX (2); (BOTTOM) MICHELLE FAYE/FX LEGION > This might be the most unortho- dox Marvel adaptation of all, with a superhero, played by Downton Abbey's Dan Stevens, whose grip on reality is tenuous at best. The Hollywood Reporter called season one "a visual tour-de-force of stunning imagery and freak-tastic ideas" and among the most "visually challenging fare of 2017." Pictured, Michael Uppendahl guides Stevens through a scene in "Chapter 3" of the fi rst season. THE KNICK > The visual brainchild of fi lmmaker Steven Soderbergh, The Knick—which revolves around an early 20th-Century hospital in New York— revels in the kind of gritty, at times shockingly graphic, period detail unimaginable in television just a couple decades ago. Its central character, a surgeon with a weakness for cocaine and opium, is as fl awed as they come. In her reevaluation of the show, The New Yorker's Emily Nussbaum admits that she "began to get into [the surgical scenes'] ugly aggression, as well as Soderbergh's vision of the body itself as a war zone."