Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVSPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched the first season of “Ratched,” streaming now on Netflix.Netflix’s new drama “Ratched” may be an origin story of the cruel nurse from “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” but it begins with a different violent offender: her foster brother Edmund Tolleson (Finn Wittrock).
His massacre of a house full of priests gets him sent to a mental institution, and after years of trying to reunite with him, Mildred Ratched (Sarah Paulson) finds a way to: by conning her way into a job there.What follows in the eight-episode first season is a deep dive into the childhood trauma they both experienced, being bounced around the foster care system and eventually.
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