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Ratched Review: Lean on Its Cuckoo's Nest Roots but Heavy on Ryan Murphy's Signature Style

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Ryan Murphy's Ratched has been billed as the story of how Nurse Ratched from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest becomes the stiff, forcefulauthoritarian of a psychiatric hospital we see in the film, but that description doesn't exactly jibe with the eight episodes sent to critics.

It might be more accurate to say that Ratched jumps feet-first into a depiction of a woman already unhinged, and the macabre, sometimes gruesome things she's willing to do to further her goal.

By now, you know what to expect in a Murphy-verse production, and the engrossing Ratched has those hallmarks in spades: lush visual treats, occasionally off-the-wall antics from some truly batshit characters, heightened drama, sex, and blood.

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