Netflix has announced the premiere date and released the first look images for Ryan Murphy’s Ratched series.
It’s time to schedule an appointment with Netflix, as the eight-episode series officially premieres on the streamer on Friday, September 18.
Ratched serves as a prequel series to One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and tells the origin story of the nefarious nurse Mildred Ratched who arrives in Northern California in 1947 to seek employment at a leading psychiatric hospital where new and unsettling experiments have begun on the human mind.
The first batch of images, pictured in our gallery below, capture Ratched’s early journey in becoming a nurse before turning into a full-fledged monster.
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Per the official synopsis, Mildred sets out on a clandestine mission to present herself as “the perfect image of what a dedicated nurse should be, but the wheels are always turning and 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 smoldering within, revealing that true monsters are made, not born.”
The series stars Sarah Paulson as Mildred Ratched, Cynthia Nixon as Gwendolyn Briggs, Judy Davis as Nurse Betsy Bucket, Sharon Stone as Lenore Osgood, Jon Jon Briones as Dr. Richard Hanover, Finn Wittrock as Edmund Tolleson, Charlie Carver as Huck, Alice Englert as Dolly, Amanda Plummer as Louise, Corey Stoll as Charles Wainwright, Sophie Okonedo as Charlotte and Vincent D’Onofrio as Gov. George Wilburn.
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The suspenseful new drama series is executive produced by Ryan Murphy, Ian Brennan, Sarah Paulson, Alexis Martin Woodall, Aleen Keshishian, Jacob Epstein, Jennifer Salt, Margaret Riley, Michael Douglas, Robert Mitas and Tim Minear. It is Murphy’s third Netflix series, as part of the uber-producer’s mega-deal with the streaming giant.
Ratched arrives on Netflix on Friday, September 18.
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Adele Ankers is a Freelance Entertainment Journalist. You can reach her on Twitter.
Source: IGN.com Ratched: Netflix Premiere Date and First Images Released