Ratched stabs, cuts, bludgeons, and mutilates what was past. The show is brutal, but provides relief for its queer women. Unfortunately, its characters of co...

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There are echoes of Hitchcock and Basic Instinct in a new TV series telling the origin story of Nurse Ratched from One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, writes ...

Ryan Murphy''s Netflix series, which tells the backstory of the notorious nurse, is bonkers. But it has its pleasures, too.

Visually striking series revels in gross-out moments and over-the-top characters.

In the latest bastardization of intellectual property, producer Ryan Murphy’s “Ratched” is basically “American Horror Story: Cuckoo’s Nest,” a so...

This was the role Sarah Paulson was meant to play.

Stylized but uneven 'Ratched' revives a less than healthy nurse

Netflix's prequel to 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' is nice to look at until the too-ludicrous plot spoils the fun.

Sarah Paulson, Sharon Stone, Cynthia Nixon and Judy Davis headline 'Ratched,' Ryan Murphy's 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' horror prequel for Netflix.

For his latest Netflix series, Ryan Murphy resists many of his more sensational impulses

Whether you need to watch Netflix's ridiculous original series "Ratched" can be summed up in three words: puppet torture porn. [Spoilers]

The Netflix drama is evidence that making female characters bigger does not necessarily make them better.

Produced by Ryan Murphy and packed with his signature gory excess, Ratched makes a great series of still photos but tells a very disappointing story.

Stunning 1940s design and heightened performances can’t save this stylistic mishmash.

Sarah Paulson stars in the tediously gory "Ratched," a Netflix series that's a sort of origin story for the scary nurse.

A review of the new series from producer Ryan Murphy, which premieres on September 18.

Netflix's 'Ratched' offers an unnecessary origin story for the sadistic nurse of 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.' Alan Sepinwall's review

Ryan Murphy's latest horror story remakes the infamous nurse in Sarah Paulson's image—and the results are skin deep

A prequel to One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest has producer Ryan Murphy taking on the backstory of Nurse Ratched.

Ratched is a twisted origin story for the controlling head nurse who serves as the villain in Ken Kesey's 1962 novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

Ryan Murphy’s origin story of the terrifying “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” villain Nurse Ratched is extremely flawed, but there’s something abo...

Ryan Murphy’s macabre origin story for Nurse Ratched is more than its lurid surface

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Actress Sarah Paulson starred in writer/producer Ryan Murphy’s “The People vs. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story” and multiple seasons of ...

It's one of the most grounded and realistic Murphy productions in a while

Campy, gory and ultimately hollow, Ryan Murphy's 'Ratched' amounts to a subpar 'American Horror Story' season — read TVLine's review.

Despite valiant effort from star Sarah Paulson to turn the One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest villain into a complicated heroine, Ratched has no story to tell.

Based on "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," “Ratched” is a confusing character study that never gets a grip on the character it’s studying. 

Ryan Murphy’s latest Netflix series is a craven, banal origin story that reduces an iconic character to a vessel for trauma.