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The monster is out. Today at the Television Critics Association‘s 2020 summer tour Netflix revealed the first trailer for Ryan Murphy and Evan Romansky’s upcoming drama series Ratched. And the horror staple has never looked more terrifying or more glamorous.
Based on Ken Kesey’s 1962 novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, the eight-episode series will tell the story of one of literature’s most iconic and creepiest characters, Nurse Ratched. Starting in 1947 the series will show how this accomplished medical professional transformed into the terror that would later haunt the halls of Oregon State Hospital. The drama promises to be a must watch for fans of horror and the classic film. But based on this first trailer, Ratched also looks like the sick, slick, gorgeously framed balm American Horror Story: Asylum fans have been craving
“You should bathe more often. Your fingernails are filthy.” Those are the first words out of Sarah Paulson‘s lips as she tackles the role of Nurse Mildred Ratched, proving once and for all that Paulson excels at playing a stone cold diva.
As “Big Spender” plays and a whirlwind of luxurious fabrics swirl around these stars, the trailer flashes between a slew of gruesome scenes. Raunchy sex, rampant drug use, painful injections, literal torture, puppets — it’s all there. And it’s all waiting for us this September.
In addition to Paulson, Ratched will star a few more of Ryan Murphy’s favorites. Finn Wittrock, who has starred in the Freak Show, Roanoke, and Hotel seasons of American Horror Story, will be playing a new character by the name of Edmund Tolleson. Jon Jon Briones, who starred in The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story alongside Wittrock as well as in AHS: Apoclaypse, will be playing Nurse Ratched’s boss Dr. Richard Hanover. The drama will also star Cynthia Nixon, Judy Davis, and Sharon Stone because no one knows how to put a fabulous and frightening cast together better than Ryan Murphy. Get ready to find new reasons to be scared of the doctor starting September 18.
