Once here, McMurphy both endures and stands witness to the abuse and degradation of the oppressive Nurse Ratched, who gains superiority and power through the flaws of the other inmates.

When we first learned that Ryan Murphy had teamed up with Sarah Paulson for Ratched, a feminist horror series about asylum nurse Mildred Ratched, we knew it was going to be must-watch TV.

If looks could kill, everyone around Mildred Ratched would already be dead ... abandonment issues as a prelude to threatening a nurse’s children and coercing a mentally ill man to slit his ...