I recently watched the Netflix series Ratched, which is a prequel to One Flew Over the Cuckoo‘s Nest, a memorable book and 1975 movie. The series develops and expands the character of Nurse Mildred Ratched as portrayed by Sarah Paulson, and plays much like a season of American Horror Story.
Now Nurse Ratched as portrayed in the book and movie is a hardened, sadistic, and dehumanizing character, and the prequel series portrays how she became that way. Abandoned and horrendously abused as a child, the series illustrates how behavior builds upon and perpetuates itself. Human monsters are often made rather than born, and we see Ratched evolving from a highly intelligent woman to a master manipulator.
The series takes place in the 1940’s to early 1950’s, and has a great period flavor, recreating what passed for therapeutic treatment in a mental health asylum, Lucia State Hospital. You’ll see frontal lobotomies and torturous hydrotherapy treatments performed, and witness a growing darkness evolving in the complex character of Mildred Ratched…
A second season of the series is planned, with an airing date uncertain.
Now Nurse Ratched as portrayed in the book and movie is a hardened, sadistic, and dehumanizing character, and the prequel series portrays how she became that way. Abandoned and horrendously abused as a child, the series illustrates how behavior builds upon and perpetuates itself. Human monsters are often made rather than born, and we see Ratched evolving from a highly intelligent woman to a master manipulator.
The series takes place in the 1940’s to early 1950’s, and has a great period flavor, recreating what passed for therapeutic treatment in a mental health asylum, Lucia State Hospital. You’ll see frontal lobotomies and torturous hydrotherapy treatments performed, and witness a growing darkness evolving in the complex character of Mildred Ratched…
A second season of the series is planned, with an airing date uncertain.
