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Will it just be that the now-named вЂњClergy KillerвЂќ will be at Nurse RatchedвЂ™s facility? The character who won Louise Fletcher an Oscar has been reimagined here significantly, leaning into the icy, threatening intelligence that Sarah Paulson can do so well more than her characterization as a blunt instrument of the machine from the adaptation of KeseyвЂ™s novel. ItвЂ™s a striking sequence to launch the show, not only in how well made it is but in how much it pulls in the viewer with questions as to how this character and event will relate to the one we know from Ken KeseyвЂ™s book and MiloЕЎ FormanвЂ™s film One Flew Over the CuckooвЂ™s Nest. One survivor remains, hiding under the bed. The scene is bloody and brutal, revealing (right before heвЂ™s stabbed and killed) that the monsignor was the deadbeat dad who turned EdmundвЂ™s mother on to drugs and prostitution. The other priests come home to find their catalogue-loving colleague butchered and then Edmund attacks them in quick succession. Everything about the visual language here plays like a horror movie, and the violence breaks out quickly. Edmund Tolleson (Finn Wittrock) comes in from the cold, telling the priest that his car broke down. HeвЂ™s just pulled out the Vaseline and bra catalogue when thereвЂ™s a knock on the door. While most of the fathers head out to a screening of Miracle on 34th Street, which was released in May 1947, one of them stays behind to, well, have some alone time. A church in 1947 is filmed like an old monster movie, the rain pounding down outside of it as a shadowy figure watches from the street. Ratched starts with a sequence that sets a tone of violence.

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After the disappointment of The Politician and Hollywood, is this the series that can finally bring MurphyвЂ™s glorious but often elusive blend of camp, melodrama, and passionate performance under the Netflix umbrella? ItвЂ™s way too soon to tell after one episode, but there are plenty of reasons to believe it can. There are times in the series premiere, which Murphy directs, where Ratched really joins all of the Murphy themes and visual language into what looks like his most promising Netflix series yet. (Heck, thereвЂ™s even a bit of Nip/Tuck in the medical horror here.) Led by his favorite collaborator in the title role, Ratched feels like something that Murphy has been building to for years: the gore of AHS attached to a landmark character from film history, featuring, of course, many of his regular performers. It combines elements of film and American history Г la Feud or even American Crime Story and promises genre elements like the creatorвЂ™s beloved American Horror Story. What is Ratched? On paper, it feels like the distillation of everything that fascinates creator Ryan Murphy.

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