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Netflix | Season Premiere Date: September 18, 2020

Summary: The series inspired by the novel "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," Mildred Ratched (Paulson) begins her work as a nurse at a Northern California psychiatric hospital in 1947.

Genre(s): Drama

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Dean Taylor

Sep 14, 2020

Season 1 Review: Every actor is dutifully committed, even if some of the characters are little more than broadly drawn cartoon characters, the stories are energetically told (even when some of the episodes are over an hour long) and the entire mood and atmosphere of the show is wholly enveloping. For something so bleak and macabre, Ratched really is a lot of fun. Read full review

Malcolm Venable

Sep 16, 2020

Season 1 Review: Ratched works very well as a moody, sensual thriller even if it's not so much an intellectual exploration. Read full review

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Rob Owen

Sep 17, 2020

Season 1 Review: Through it all the performances of Paulson, Davis, Cynthia Nixon (as Paulson’s potential love interest) and Sophie Okonedo (as a mental hospital patient) keep “Ratched” watchable even as the quality droops under the weight of too much melodrama. Read full review

Darren Franich

Sep 14, 2020

Season 1 Review: The whole tone of Ratched feels like a point extremely missed, and it can’t even generate its own upside-down gravity. At times, its rudeness is just crude. Read full review

Brian Lowry

Sep 18, 2020

Season 1 Review: In the latest bastardization of intellectual property, producer Ryan Murphy's Ratched is basically "American Horror Story: Cuckoo's Nest," a sort-of prequel starring Sarah Paulson as the quietly unbending nurse from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," casting her into a florid sea of stylish noir excess. Big, showy roles from a star-studded cast abound, but it's mostly in the service of glossy garbage. Read full review

Alan Sepinwall

Sep 16, 2020

Season 1 Review: Ratched is a bunch of disparate influences (the score periodically quotes Elmer Bernstein’s Cape Fear theme, among others) thrown together simply because they could be, and not because they fit together, or add up to more as a group than they did individually. The Nurse Ratched from the film would not approve. Read full review

Angelica Jade Bastien

Sep 18, 2020

Season 1 Review: Nothing in Ratched works. Not the overbearing score desperately trying to replicate the splendor of Bernard Herrmann’s work with Alfred Hitchcock. Not the consistent insistence on shoving various shades of green into every frame. Not the acting, even when executed by performers who have been dynamic elsewhere. Not the rudderless scripts. ... There is nothing redeemable to be found within the folds of these eight hours of television. Nothing! Read full review

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Valiliy

Sep 19, 2020

An incredibly stylish and beautiful show with great actors. The plot is sometimes chaotic, but interesting!

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TVJerry

Sep 19, 2020

Ryan Murphy has outdone himself in his latest over-the-top creation! This Netflix series imagines the origin story of the mean nurse from One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Louise Fletcher’s Oscar-winning role). Sarah Paulson takes up the role and she’s wonderfully evil one minute and sweetlyRyan Murphy has outdone himself in his latest over-the-top creation! This Netflix series imagines the origin story of the mean nurse from One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Louise Fletcher’s Oscar-winning role). Sarah Paulson takes up the role and she’s wonderfully evil one minute and sweetly kind the next (depending on which side of her favor you fall). Her most virulent opponent is yet another hardware-inspired namesake Head Nurse Betsy Bucket, played by Judy Davis, who provides the most fun villain in the lineup of evil characters. Speaking of, Sharon Stone is doing her best Jessica Lange, but doesn’t really stand out. Then there’s the writing, which is a glorious mélange of film noir misdeeds and delectable melodrama. Speaking of music, it’s so prevelant that it becomes a character, accompanying every scene with a pounding pean to Bernard Herrmann. Finally, the ramped-up Technicolor art direction is spectacular, especially the gorgeously designed period costumes. This is trashy sensationalism crammed with sex, brutality and malevolence, but in the best possible way!… Expand

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Pogoscribe

Sep 19, 2020

Beautifully shot but a depressingly bloody mess of a show. Turned it off after 50 minutes. The only thing darker than Ratched is the current pandemic.

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Ijon

Sep 19, 2020

Masturbating priests and good lesbians.. All in 2 first epidoses... Another disgusting #LGBTNSDAP propaganda.

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Series Overview
Season 1

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  Air Date: September 18, 2020
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