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Sep 14, 2020 1 min, 42 secs

Mildred Ratched first appears in the Netflix series that bears her name as a cartoon villainess.

Gazing disapprovingly — or analytically — at a couple mid-PDA from her turquoise car, the future antagonist of Ken Kesey's novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (played in the Milos Forman film adaptation by Louise Fletcher, who won an Oscar for her performance) cuts a gas-station attendant down to size for making friendly if annoying chitchat.

“You should bathe more often,” this Nurse Ratched (played by Sarah Paulson) tells him, her blood-hued lips matching her scarlet driving gloves, neck scarf and the large, cursive “R” on her coat.

Since 45-year-old Paulson is older than Fletcher was when the latter shot One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, it’s not entirely clear at what life stage we find this Mildred.

Depending on the asker, Mildred offers varying accounts of her feelings toward Tolleson, though it’s clear that she considers him, like herself, an in-between creature, somewhere between human and monster.

Even the hospital’s sole doctor, the secretive and ethically challenged Richard Hanover (Jon Jon Briones), is quickly appalled by Mildred’s shortcuts, while its head nurse, Betsy Bucket (Judy Davis), never found much to be impressed with in the first place.

The series welds the American Horror Story elements to a soap-operatic noir mystery, with a private eye (Corey Stoll) staying in Mildred’s motel eventually bringing to town his eccentric gajillionaire client Lenore Osgood (Sharon Stone), who wears matching dresses with the monkey always on her shoulder.

(Greenlit for two seasons, Ratched is apparently plotted out for a four-year run, with the final season to feature a showdown between Mildred and her One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest foe Randle McMurphy, played by Jack Nicholson in the film.)

Well, you think you’ve had enough — and then comes a capuchin in a mint bejeweled gown atop a fur-capped Sharon Stone, whetting once more your appetite for excess

Cast: Sarah Paulson, Finn Wittrock, Cynthia Nixon, Jon Jon Briones, Charlie Carver, Judy Davis, Sharon Stone

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