Who Is Nurse Ratched? The Story Of The Ultimate Villain | Netflix

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Nurse Ratched is, no doubt about it, an icon. This is her story from a groundbreaking book to an Oscar winning movie and now a Netflix series of her very own.

anyone seen the show yet?

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[anais_vert]

Watched the first few eps, too disturbing for me, life is already depressing enough. Amazing costume design though

[frelling_tralk]

I’ve seen the first two episodes so far, and it wasn’t really what I was expecting :( It all looks gorgeous, but I think I was hyped for something a bit grittier maybe, instead this all feels very heightened reality and theatrical. Also I don’t really understand why they came up with the backstory for her that they did, it has nothing to do with the character from the film and seems so random

[lloyd_llewellyn]

”this all feels very heightened reality and theatrical”

It’s a Ryan Murphy show. Gritty doesn’t exist in his vocabulary.

[analievelyn]

the original lady looks really pretty.

I'm waiting to watch until ppl i trust say it's worth it. I am tired of being disappointed lol

[euraylie]

the original lady looks really pretty.

The amazing Louise Fletcher, who among many other great roles, played the wonderfully manipulative Kai Winn in Star Trek DS9

[analievelyn]

ive been meaning to get into st. do i start from the beginning?

[prosopopeya]

I followed this viewing guide, which I liked bc I could see in one spot if the episode sounded like something I’d enjoy, so if I decided to watch anyway but got bored after all, I knew it was safe to skip. Some of the Ferengi episodes, especially early on, are really rough.

[allmylines]

i haven't seen any of the episodes yet but i probably will at some point just because there are so many amazing people in the cast

i posted this in the roundup yesterday but i'm posting it again because it made me lol

I heard Holden Caulfield shows up in the hospital at the end of Ratched to set up the AP English Cinematic Universe.
- Daniel Spenser (@DanSpenser) September 17, 2020

[well_wellwell11]

Boo Radley follows behind.

[lithiumflower]

I managed to not get assigned A Catcher in the Rye and read it on my own; I would have preferred it to A Light in August and The Grapes of Wrath. After there was a chapter about a turtle crossing the road, I skipped the first half and they were still in Oklahoma!!! Suffered through the rest just to get to some grand point about one of the characters breastfeeding an old man uggghh. We had the worst AP English books. Had to read The Stranger, Madame Bovary, and Heart of Darkness too (and again in college, we get it, the horror, the horror!!! of being the only black woman in a college course that liked to read excerpts aloud and everyone awkwardly pausing when getting to nigger while trying to avoid looking at me!)

AP English was so terrible.

[pivotandsway]

having kids read aloud even in college especially works that have slurs in them is fcking gross

[ishi_chan]

I've never seen the original film, so I can't draw any comparisons between the two versions.

It kind of felt like a more focussed season of AHS tbh, and as that I enjoyed it quite a bit.

There were some bizarre things though. Like the show focusses a lot on how lesbianism during the time period it's set and how it was seen as a mental illness and the truly horrific "treatments" to cure it, but at the same time completely ignores other things from the time period. For example there is a marriage arrangement for respectability between a white lesbian and a black gay man and nobody ever makes any mention of it as an issue even though afaik this would have been illegal and most definitely not widely accepted.

[jaequeeragenda]

I noticed that too on the marriage !!!

Guess they couldnt handle more than one social issue lol

[false_hate]

I too, was confused by the time period for a couple scenes due to anti-miscegenation laws still being enforced in California. Like he made partner at a law firm and she’s the governor’s second in command? They’re in that big, suburban house?

There are also only a handful of scenes where the non-white characters experience hostility like when the doctor and patient have to pay first before receiving their food order. But that made a little more sense since the majority of the show is at that hospital or fucked up motel.

[spiral_mystik]

That's Ryan Murphy for you.
He did the same thing with Hollywood. Racism is bad but a movie with an interracial couple breaks every record and everybody loved it... in the 50s. And his stans will say "but it's supposed to not be realistic! It's a 'what if' scenario!". Hmm no! Ryan Murphy's understanding of bigotry is often superficial yet he wants to act as if he's doing something. If he wants to keep doing period shows featuring minorities, he needs to ask help from historians.