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It's Ryan Murphy going full-on Ryan Murphy, with all the strengths and shortcomings which that implies. It's a shame they didn't put as much effort into the story as the vibrant presentation. [Full review in Spanish]
The name Ratched calls to mind words like "ratchet" and "wretched," but in this slick, inconsistent series she's more a jumble of qualities whose truths are coyly withheld from us.
"Ratched" has already been renewed by Netflix for a second season. Based on the first eight episodes, the show will need a miracle cure to be worthy of all the talented people involved.
Paulson's conniving, manipulative, but occasionally tender-hearted character is fun to watch, especially playing against an absolutely wonderful Cynthia Nixon.
"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 puzzlingly dull for stretches, only to become interesting all over again.
Ryan Murphy's latest is gorgeously shot, but joyless in the extreme, and Sarah Paulson's dour title character grows tiresome very early on. Did anyone ask for this?
As an avowed fan of Fletcher's performance in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, this review must finally confront the elephant in the room. Paulson's performance is even better.
No longer a chilling avatar of implacable, self-satisfied state violence who needs no reason to exist other than that the system will always find people like her to keep running, Nurse Ratched is now just another poor, misunderstood antihero.