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Sarah Paulson is Ratched in first images from Ryan Murphy’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest prequel

July 29, 2020 by Amie Cranswick

Netflix has released a batch of first look images and a poster for the upcoming drama Ratched. Inspired by the notorious psychiatric nurse from One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, the series reunites creator Ryan Murphy with his American Horror Story star Sarah Paulson who takes the lead role as Nurse Mildred Ratched; take a look here…

From Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan, RATCHED is a suspenseful drama series that tells the origin story of asylum nurse Mildred Ratched. 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.

Ratched arrives on Netflix on September 18th and stars Sarah Paulson as Mildred Ratched, Cynthia Nixon as Gwendolyn Briggs, Judy Davis as Nurse Betsy Bucket, Sharon Stone as Lenore Osgood, Jon Jon Briones as Dr. Richard Hanover, Finn Wittrock as Edmund Tolleson, Charlie Carver as Huck, Alice Englert as Dolly, Amanda Plummer as Louise, Corey Stoll as Charles Wainwright, Sophie Okonedo as  Charlotte and Vincent D’Onofrio as Gov. George Wilburn.

 

Filed Under: Amie Cranswick, News, Television Tagged With: Ratched

About Amie Cranswick

Amie Cranswick has been part of Flickering Myth’s editorial and management team for over a decade. She has a background in publishing and copyediting and has served as Editor-in-Chief of FlickeringMyth.com since 2023.

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