TV Review: Ratched (Netflix) – Season One

Created by Ryan Murphy and Evan Romansky, Ratched serves as a prequel to Ken Kesey‘s 1962 novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, following the titular character, Nurse Mildred Ratched (Sarah Paulson). Airing on Netflix in September 2020, the series begins in 1947 when Mildred arrives in Northern California to seek employment at a leading psychiatric hospital, where new and unsettling experiments have begun on the human mind. On a clandestine mission, Mildred presents herself as the perfect image of what a dedicated nurse should be, but as she begins to infiltrate the mental health care system and those within it, Mildred’s stylish exterior belies a growing darkness that has long been smouldering within.

TV Review: American Horror Story (Fox) – Season Nine – AHS 1984

Created by Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk and aired on Fox in September 2019, AHS 1984 takes place in LA during 1984 and focuses on a young group of summer staff members at Camp Redwood, which is ready to reopen after a massacre involving the infamous Mr Jingles.