Before you tune into Netflix’s Ratched, a prequel that imagines Ratched’s formative years as a nurse in a Northern California mental institution, take a minute to brush up on her origin story—and maybe even revisit the source material. ...
Streaming on the Netflix subscription service, the Ratched TV show is based on the character of Nurse Ratched from the One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest novel. It stars Sarah Paulson, Cynthia Nixon, Judy Davis, Sharon Stone, Jon Jon Briones, Finn Wittrock, Charlie Carver, Alice Englert, ...
Netflix Sarah Paulson as Nurse Ratched She is based on a real person. If you're remotely familiar with the character, this is a pretty unsettling factoid. In writing his seminal 1962 novel One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest—which the critic Pauline Kael once called a "nonconformists' bible...