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data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nt</a>,” on a real person—a nurse whom he once met while workg the night shift a psychiatric facily Oregon. But, as Key later admted, he greatly exaggerated the woman’s celty his story for theatril effect, twistg her to a symbol of tocratic ntrol and blhe barbarism, who tak quiet pleasure torturg her patients through a batn of medical ntrol and psychologil manipulatn. When the director Milos Forman was stg his 1975 film adaptatn of the book, he ially stggled to fd an actrs to take on Ratched—Anne Bancroft, Angela Lansbury, Geralde Page, Colleen Dewhurst, and Ellen Burstyn turned the role down, nsirg the character to be too manial and unfeelg. The role ultimately went to Louise Fletcher, a lser-known actrs whose most proment work was televisn Wterns a before. Fletcher, for her part, said she found the role of Ratched (which earned her an Osr for Bt Actrs) to be terribly opaque and difficult to play. “I envied the other actors tremendoly. They were so ee, and I had to be so ntrolled,” she told the <em>Tim</em> a 1975 terview. “The still photographer kept takg pictur of all the crazi and puttg them up the hospal dg room. I asked why he didn’t take pictur of me and he said, ‘You’re so borg, always that whe uniform.’ ”</p><p class="paywall">In retrospect, both Key and Forman’s characterizatns of Nurse Ratched—as the igid embodiment of an stutnal femy that serv to both nter and negate men’s wily impuls—were shaped by the snickerg machismo of their tim. Ratched, whom Key scribed one terview as a “big strator of a nurse,” is seen as the mean mommy to Jack Nicholson’s merry prankster Randle McMurphy, the block of ice standg between him and a good time. But did a riture as c as Mildred Ratched need to be reclaimed? And to what purpose? The are the qutns I found myself askg as I sat through eight hour-long episos of “<a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Ratched</a>,” a new Netflix drama created by Evan Romansky and produced by Ian Brennan and Ryan Murphy as part of Murphy’s gargantuan Netflix velopment al. “Ratched,” starrg Murphy’s equent llaborator Sarah Plson the tular role, is an orig story, the makg of a villas. The seri, which Netflix orred for two seasons upont, tends to follow Mildred over the urse of two s, begng the neteen-forti (the first season only gets so far as a few months; acrdg to Plson, Randle McMurphy might not surface until Season 4). The rise-of-the-antihero genre is an old trope, gog back to special edns of ic books that would expla Lex Luthor’s bloodlt or the childhood neglect at the heart of the Joker’s nihilism. But only recently has the genre expand to clu reviled female characters; Disney’s “Maleficent” anchise, for example, or the upg “Cella Vil” film, starrg Emma Stone. The ia behd the projects tends to follow a formula: this woman wasn’t always a monster, a harpy, a shrew. She, too, was young and betiful once. There was not always a worm si the apple.</p><p class="paywall">“Ratched” is not subtle about what ed the rot at the re of s protagonist. In fact, hs you over the head wh the cg cint: first multiple flashbacks, then the form of a marte show, and then, fally, a mdl monologue which Plson divulg her ept trma, lt the viewer rema nfed. What you learn, through the several retellgs, is that Ratched was an orphan who bounced around the foster system, alongsi a boy whom she nsired to be her brother, until the pair land a particularly twisted fay. What she nfs about her childhood, whout givg too much away, is classic Murphy, a grisly story of sexual abe and vlence that uld have been pulled directly om the shock-and-saw playbook of his mabre “Amerin Horror Story” anthology anchise. “Horror Story” nsistently tried to ph the boundari of what a show uld prent on ble televisn. At s bt, as “Amerin Horror Story: Asylum,” a season that closely rembl “Ratched” ’s subject matter and which Plson played a plucky journalist, the formula was an trigug rnival sishow of gross and garish lights, pendg on your tolerance for masturbatn and mutilatn. At s worst, was an aggrsive bombardment of off-puttg funk, too slick and self-satisfied s qut to tillate and nseate as many people as possible.</p><div class="Contaer-bkChBi byNLHx"></div><p class="paywall">“Ratched” is not jt an extensn of the “A.H.S.” ethos but a bubblg uldron of all of Murphy’s well-tablished obssns. It has the snappy, acid-tged dialogue of his misanthropic edi like “Glee” and “The Polician,” wh every character classilly traed the art of the wicked one-ler. It featur the body horror and operatg-room theatrics of his plastic-surgery drama “Nip/Tuck.” (In an early scene of “Ratched,” viewers are treated to seeg a ontal lobotomy, performed wh an ice pick through an eye socket.) And is a splashy, mid-century perd piece, much like Murphy’s shows “Fd” and “Hollywood,” that waggl s opulent set drsgs and genero stumg budget the viewer’s face like a fan dancer workg overtime. When the show begs (after a brief, bloody ld-open murr spree that I will not spoil) we meet a pristely drsed Mildred Ratched as she driv along the central California ast a shy blue upe. A wi panoramic shot pulls back to reveal the granur of the ocean, wav crashg agast the rocks. Plson’s stum, as an extensn of this visual feast, are sumptuo and cched; she seems to have an endls supply of fashnable jewel-toned wool garments wh prim ltle fascator hats to match.</p><p class="paywall">Romansky and Murphy seem to have pulled much of the show’s soundtrack directly om Bernard Herrmann’s orchtral piec for “Vertigo.” We know immediately, however, that Mildred Ratched is not the type of rtraed, opaque woman who populated Hchck’s work. Her first l are directed at a gas-statn attendant, tellg him he reeks and needs to bathe. She checks to a roadsi motel alone—another self-nsc Hchck reference, this time to “Psycho”—and then ntu on to her statn, a gleamg psychiatric facily n by Dr. Richard Hanover (Jon Jon Brn), a lobotomy enthiast who is addicted to self-admistered anthia, and his sikick Betsy Bucket (Judy Davis), the long-sufferg head nurse wh a hangdog appearance and an air of superry. Nurse Ratched asks Dr. Hanover for employment, and, when nied, vis a v plot to fagle her way to a job. By the end of the pilot, havg secured her posn, she scends to the basement to vis the hospal’s newt mate, a psychopath named Edmund Tollon, who btally murred four prits. We learn that this is the “brother” whom Nurse Ratched grew up wh, and that she has hatched a plan to help him break ee.</p><p class="paywall">It tak all eight episos for Ratched’s siblg heist to e to un, but by that time the plot has bee so nvoluted that barely matters. There are story l volvg dunkg patients boilg water as a form of gay nversn therapy, patients mtg suici, a woman wh flamboyant multiple personali, hotel-room surgeri wh blunt stments, acts of sexual viancy between a nvicted murrer and a libido nurse--trag. A smooth hman (Corey Stoll) who has e to town to hunt down and kill Dr. Hanover occupi a motel room near Mildred’s and they beg a sordid affair plete wh nghty, Tennsee Williams-que roleplay. California’s ernor (Vcent D’Ono, lookg like a late-reer Orson Well) tak a special tert Dr. Hanover’s facily as part of his new mpaign, and his personal secretary (Cynthia Nixon) tak a special tert Nurse Ratched. The two slurp down oysters and vis hidn “lady bars” the woods. This clanste sapphic affair, the most touchg part of “Ratched,” seems to want to channel the supprsed yearng that Todd Hayn brought to the portrayal of mid-century queer romance “Carol,” but lacks the subtextual elegance that ma Hayn’s film crackle.</p><div><div class="ConsumerMarketgUnThemedWrapper-iUTMTf jssHut nsumer-marketg-un nsumer-marketg-un--article-mid-ntent" role="prentatn" aria-hidn="te"><div class="nsumer-marketg-un__slot nsumer-marketg-un__slot--article-mid-ntent nsumer-marketg-un__slot---ntent"></div><div class="journey-un"></div></div></div><p class="paywall">Perhaps this is the central weakns of “Ratched”: there is nothg bubblg unrneath the surface. Romansky and Murphy throw everythg at the screen, and all at once. Judy Davis do a valiant job of playg a neglected olr woman at the end of her rope. Sharon Stone, who sweeps to a uple of episos as a va heirs who rri a puch on her shoulr, livers the kd of wacky performance that you would hope Sharon Stone would give as a woman who owns a monkey. Plson, who has livered rich, excellent performanc prev Murphy projects, do her bt to hold onto the script’s curv as ventur to creasgly unhged terra, but neher Mildred nor the other women of “Ratched” ever e close to seemg like people who exist the real world. The actrs “Ratched” uld certaly not pla, as Fletcher did, that they’ve been given too ltle to do, but this show is evince that makg female characters bigger do not necsarily make them better. Years after wrg her to his novel, Key ran to the nurse who spired his famo villa, at an aquarium. 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