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.

As readers of the original text will no doubt be aware, Nurse Ratched’s unspeakable crimes in Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest place her firmly among literature’s most hateful ...