Are you watching Ratched? (Netflix) - The origin of Nurse Ratched from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

[skrskg]

The first season of Ratched is on Netflix right now (eight episodes).

Ratched is an American psychological thriller drama web television series about the character of the same name from Ken Kesey's 1962 novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

In 1947, Mildred arrives in Northern California to seek employment at a leading psychiatric hospital where new and unsettling experiments have begun on the human mind. On a clandestine mission, Mildred presents herself as the perfect image of what a dedicated nurse should be, but the wheels are always turning and as she begins to infiltrate the mental health care system and those within it, Mildred's stylish exterior belies a growing darkness that has long been smoldering within, revealing that true monsters are made, not born.

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I've seen the first two episodes of the show and I'm hooked. It's shot really well and the use of color makes for some spectacular scenes.

For a selling point, I'd say that Ratched is close to the Hannibal-series (so far), if Hannibal was a nurse.

 

[Invisible Cities]

The reviews sounded terrible but yes, going to start it tonight.

 

[Maligna]

Had no idea this was a thing, so no.

 

[Indelible]

I will check it out since I love American Horror Story but my expectations are very low.

 

[henhowc]

Enjoyed all of the Ryan Murphy shows that have been put out on Netflix so I'll prob check this one out too.

 

[StallionDan]

My head canon is she was reincarnated by the Pah-wraiths to fuck with Earth history.

 

[greengr]

I just dont want to see Sarah Paulson on another TV series produced by Murphy,we dont have 2015 anymore.

 

[ElectricBlanketFire]

I just dont want to see Sarah Paulson on another TV series produced by Murphy,we dont have 2015 anymore.

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Yeah. I can't handle anything with an AHS regular for a while.

 

[Nida]

A review calling it the worst American Horror Story season popped up in my google news.

But a hell of a cast.

 

[metsallica]

Make more Scream Queens, you coward!!

 

[My Blue Heaven]

Doesn't providing some kind of cheesy sympathetic backstory for Ratched go against the idea of the Kesey novel that she is basically an unknowable endproduct of the Combine?

 

[naib]

I started watching today but only because I'm a fan of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
Watching it like a villain's origin story and liking it so far. 3 eps in.

 

[Rhaknar]

the Sarah Paulson bashing in this thread SMH

 

[pargonta]

recognized the music from Psycho not 5 minutes into the first episode. they can't do that can they? lol. plucky Hitchcock violins or whatever were instantly recognizable to me

 

[meowdi gras]

Ryan Murphy? *heel turn* Nope, learned my lesson with that clown.

 

[Kschreck]

Love AHS so I'm on board. :)

 

[TAJ]

The trailer makes it look like the worst thing ever, and I have a lot on my plate already.

 

[Shig]

I love One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, but Nurse Ratched as a moustache-twirling villain in need of a TV serial's worth of motivational exploration seems like grasping at straws in the worst way.

She always just struck me as a too-tightly-wound cog in the machine of the mental health industry of the time. This seems to be trying so sell that, oh-ho-ho, the lady that worked the pill counter at some podunk sanitarium is really the twisted puppetmaster behind that whole machine! Geddaouddahere.

 

[ThereAre4Lights]

I'm curious how mean-spirited it is compared to some of the nastier seasons of AHS. I have to be in a certain mood for this.

 

[Deleted member 42055]

Was super interested then the reviews hit

 

[DevilMayGuy]

Yeah reviews are pretty bad so I'll wait for y'all to tell me how it is

 

[Nappuccino]

On the one hand, I feel like reviews for the show would always be bad unless it was absolutely stellar. On the other, as a huge fan of the book and movie, I have no idea what this should could or should be.

 

[Lord Error]

Seems like there are few TV show/movie ideas worse than the origin stories of mysteriously evil famous characters. Has such a thing ever worked? Dart Vader in Ep1-3, Maleficent, now tihs, all dumb, and just end up ruining the characters.

 

[vhoanox]

Watch 2 episodes. It's pretty, the colors are popping but its very boring. Why it needs to be about nurse Ratched at all?

 

[carlsojo]

Oh my good God this show is fucked. Episode 3 is fucked. Fast forward is my friend.

 

[Tanerian]

She's about as close to the character Nurse Ratched from One Flew Over as The Resident Evil movie franchise's Jill Valentine is to her video game counterpart.

Might as well not even be related.

Show feels like a bland season of AHS.

 

[JDSN]

Sarah Paulson tv shit is always shit, except for that O.J series

 

[DanGo]

Hell no. This show has no reason to exist.

Vulture: Ratched Is the Worst Thing That Could Have Happened to Nurse Ratched

 

[xxracerxx]

This show should have explored what made her the way she was in the movie, not glorify her behavior.