The nurse will see you now soon.
Netflix has announced that Ratched – The Ryan Murphy / Ian Brennan-produced prequel series starring Murphy’s muse Sarah Paulson as the title nurse of Hell’s Asylum – will premiere on September 18. Season 1 will consist of eight episodes.
Inspired by the iconic one flew over the cuckoo’s nest character, Ratched Set in 1947, 15 years before the events of the film, it tells the origin story of asylum nurse Mildred Ratched, which chronicles her evolution from a fledgling nurse to a full-blown villain.
The ensemble also includes Sharon Stone, Finn Wittrock, Sophie Okonedo, Vincent D’Onofrio, Jon Jon Briones, Charlie Carver, Judy Davis, Harriet Harris, Cynthia Nixon, Hunter Parrish, Amanda Plummer, and Corey Stoll.
Netflix delivered Ratched an order for two seasons direct to the series in September 2017.
Louise Fletcher won an Academy Award for Best Actress for playing Nurse Ratched in the 1975 film version of Cuckoo nest, starring Jack Nicholson as the mental patient RP McMurphy.
“I identified very deeply with his loneliness,” said Paulson. Vanity Fair to assume the legendary character. “I think ultimately, at the end of the day, that’s what drives Mildred: a quest for survival and finding some sense of home. Although the methods you choose to achieve that internal security are somewhat questionable, I would say that you are doing them with a potentially selfish need, but a need for survival, nonetheless. A kind of animal need that blinds her to the inappropriateness of some of her actions.
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