The Knick is easily one of the most lushly crafted shows on television: beautiful cinematography, smart editing, and just the right balance of suspense and action. That's not an accident. Director Steven Soderbergh is no slouch and he brought his deft hand to all 10 of the show's Season 1 episodes.

Now there's a way for fans to know how he did it: The Knick: Anatomy of a Series, a new digital book breaking down the shows scripts, production notes, and even the 465 hours, 30 minutes, and 50 seconds spent editing the first season of the Cinemax show. It also details Soderbergh's process of showing edited footage to the Knick production team instead raw-footage “dailies.”

"Edited footage gives a much clearer indication of directorial intent and also prepping, posting, and watching all the dailies is a pain-in-the-ass time-waster," Soderbergh explains in the book's intro. "Optimization of process is not just my goal, it’s something of an obsession."

Other details (or as Soderbergh calls them, "completely useless facts") in the book? Total scenes shot for Season 1: 557. Total pages shot: 539 4/8. Number of script pages containing the word "cocaine": 56. Number of pages with the word "douse": eight (only half of those are non-sexual). Most set-ups shot in one day: 60. Least number of set-ups shot in one day: 10. And, perhaps the most interesting fact, the only location where the entire principal cast worked together: Algernon's sub-basement clinic (during the seventh episode, "Get the Rope").

Pretty cool, huh? Check out a few pages of the book, out today, above. Then go download it (for free!) here. The Knick returns for Season 2 in October. You can catch up with Season 1 before then on iTunes starting Aug. 3 or on Blu-ray/DVD on Aug. 11.