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NETFLIX | Season Premiere Date: September 18, 2020

Summary: The series inspired by the novel "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," Mildred Ratched (Paulson) begins her work as a nurse at a Northern California psychiatric hospital in 1947.

Genre(s): Drama

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Season 1 Episodes

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S1:E8. Mildred and Edmund
Air Date: September 18, 2020
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S1:E7. The Bucket List
Air Date: September 18, 2020
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S1:E6. Got No Strings
Air Date: September 18, 2020

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Dean Taylor

Sep 14, 2020

Every actor is dutifully committed, even if some of the characters are little more than broadly drawn cartoon characters, the stories are energetically told (even when some of the episodes are over an hour long) and the entire mood and atmosphere of the show is wholly enveloping. For something so bleak and macabre, Ratched really is a lot of fun. Read full review

The Independent Alexandra Pollard

Sep 14, 2020

Ultimately, though, this is a thoughtful, moving examination of the repercussions of trauma, and a reclamation of queerness and femininity from a genre and source material that has treated both with contempt. Read full review

Hank Stuever

Sep 17, 2020

“Ratched” is garish and gorgeous all at the same time; horrific and occasionally poetic; glamorous to an almost laughable degree; thrilling for a while and then puzzingly dull for stretches, only to become interesting all over again. The show is a fine and flawed example of who Murphy is and what he makes. You can’t help but be lured in by it. Read full review

Darren Franich

Sep 14, 2020

The whole tone of Ratched feels like a point extremely missed, and it can’t even generate its own upside-down gravity. At times, its rudeness is just crude. Read full review

Kristi Turnquist

Sep 16, 2020

Unfortunately, “Ratched” turns out to be a bloody bore. The eight-episode series is less a character study than it is a horror show, where the gore spills all over nifty period costumes and fancy production design. Read full review

Richard Roeper

Sep 16, 2020

Yes, the production design is breathtaking and the campy dialogue provides a few dark laughs, and the actors are clearly having a good time taking juicy bites out of the material, but the histrionics become tedious and there are far more gross-out moments than genuinely frightening developments. The end result is one big bloody bore. Read full review

Angelica Jade Bastien

Sep 18, 2020

Nothing in Ratched works. Not the overbearing score desperately trying to replicate the splendor of Bernard Herrmann’s work with Alfred Hitchcock. Not the consistent insistence on shoving various shades of green into every frame. Not the acting, even when executed by performers who have been dynamic elsewhere. Not the rudderless scripts. ... There is nothing redeemable to be found within the folds of these eight hours of television. Nothing! Read full review

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StefaniA1

Sep 21, 2020

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Fantástica, os personagens são incríveis e cativantes, o enredo é maravilhoso e a trilha sonora é perfeita. Um dos melhores lançamentos deste ano, te prende do começo ao fim.… Expand

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Pendalf

Sep 23, 2020

Beautiful picture, good screenplay and wonderful acting. What else do you need for a good series?
Ryan Murphy done a good job.

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alexpafs09

Sep 24, 2020

Ratched comienza frenética y termina de la mejor manera posible.
Las actuaciones de cada uno de los personajes es sublime y fenomenal, el guión está tan bien ejecutado que es parte de la naturaleza de la misma serie.

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Dkolsen

Oct 13, 2020

The biggest problem with Ratched is that it can't decide on who its main character is at her core (a major problem for a show that is supposed to be a character study!). Is she a fastidious conformist focused on the good of society or is she willing to break every rule and taboo to achieveThe biggest problem with Ratched is that it can't decide on who its main character is at her core (a major problem for a show that is supposed to be a character study!). Is she a fastidious conformist focused on the good of society or is she willing to break every rule and taboo to achieve her selfish goals? Is she a repressed scold or a creature of dark impulses? A naive, self-righteous worker bee or a master manipulator with uncanny charisma? Focusing on any one of these dualities and showcasing the conflict it creates in our title character could make for good drama, but the show instead plays her as all of these things, scene by scene, with no sign of internal conflict (except perhaps in some of the most awkward sex scenes ever filmed). Mildred Ratched does terrible things to people throughout the series, acting in cruel, violent or murderous ways almost immediately, yet in other scenes we are expected to view her as an innocent bystander or a sympathetic point-of-view character for the audience. These things don't work together. There's no emotional core for the audience to hold onto, nor does the plot propel the viewer deeper into the show. It's chock full of coincidence and baffling motivations, tied together with truly clairvoyant insight into the character flaws of others on Mildred's part, who is able to manipulate almost every around her with startling ease (and yet confusingly falls into the naïve heroine role with others). On the plus side, the costumes and sets are striking, and some scenes are genuinely horrifying if you're looking for that. If aesthetics and shock value aren't your thing however, give it a pass.… Expand

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MikeB618

Sep 27, 2020

These types of shows are becoming so predictable it hurts. What could have been a terrific show ends up being Netflix shoving its agenda down our throats as if we're brainless idiots who are being told to sit down, shut up and like it. Let's see how many boxes we can check off on the ol'These types of shows are becoming so predictable it hurts. What could have been a terrific show ends up being Netflix shoving its agenda down our throats as if we're brainless idiots who are being told to sit down, shut up and like it. Let's see how many boxes we can check off on the ol' Netflix "progressive" agenda checklist. Christianity bad, priests sexual deviants, pointless LGBT overtones shoehorned in, all white men bad (minus the disfigured one), all women portrayed as brilliant, flawless and independent, all men portrayed as stupid, weak or subservient etc etc.. I don't want to give too much away. The potential this show could have lies in the way it was shot. It looks stunning. The music is taken straight from Cape Fear but it works. Overall, I give it a 3. Another predictable Netflix mess indicative of the time it was filmed, not the time it takes place. The best shows/movies don't pander. This show panders at every turn but hey, why put in effort to be innovative or creative? Work smarter, not harder... right?… Expand

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CLos55

Sep 20, 2020

horrible series it feels like ahs told these actors no way we are doing this. the actors decided to promote their ideals and attempt to shove them down everyones throat with poor character direction that is masked by constant lgbqt that doesnt help to enhance the story or build thehorrible series it feels like ahs told these actors no way we are doing this. the actors decided to promote their ideals and attempt to shove them down everyones throat with poor character direction that is masked by constant lgbqt that doesnt help to enhance the story or build the characters. a sad attempt to progress one flew over a cuckoo nests brillant writing.… Expand

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Pogoscribe

Sep 19, 2020

Beautifully shot but a depressingly bloody mess of a show. Turned it off after 50 minutes. The only thing darker than Ratched is the current pandemic.

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Seasons & Episodes

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Series Overview
Season 1

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- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: September 18, 2020
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  S1:E8. Mildred and Edmund
  Air Date: September 18, 2020
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  S1:E7. The Bucket List
  Air Date: September 18, 2020
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  S1:E6. Got No Strings
  Air Date: September 18, 2020
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  S1:E5. The Dance
  Air Date: September 18, 2020
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  S1:E4. Angel of Mercy: Part Two
  Air Date: September 18, 2020
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  S1:E3. Angel of Mercy
  Air Date: September 18, 2020
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  S1:E2. Ice Pick
  Air Date: September 18, 2020
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  S1:E1. Pilot
  Air Date: September 18, 2020