Ratched is, at least on paper, based on the villain from the book and movie Gökboet.
In Gökboet, Sister Ratched symbolizes a monotonous everyday sin born of bureaucracy and a predilection for order, order and strict morality.
The question is whether it does not counteract the scaryness of giving such a person a background story?
Ryan Murphy, one of the most frequently used series creators right now (American horror story, Hollywood, Pose, Feud, Glee), has taken advantage of Ratched's cramped impressions, but beyond that, Netlix Ratched has nothing to do with Gökboet.
The series begins in 1947 with a brutal murder
of a number of priests in a small town.
Sister Ratched (Sarah Paulson) is looking for employment at the local mental hospital in Lucia - recently opened and with a modern approach to mental illness.
Here you should be able to be cured and not just stored.
It does not take long before it is understood that Sister Ratched does not withdraw to threaten, manipulate and go over corpses to get what she wants.
She also has a personal connection to the priest killer.
That Ryan Murphy has a fascination for Hollywood's golden age, he has shown before and Ratched is no exception: the feeling should be to watch a Hollywood classic, but with a slightly more modern view of women and LGBTQ themes.
The music is reminiscent of a Hitchcock movie
and Murphy has also borrowed Hitchcock's grip to let dramatic horror scenes unfold in flashing green or red lights.
Mental hospitals and stately mansions feel like taken from the Italian horror classic Suspiria.
Ratched is a visual hit (large screen is recommended) but the frame story is scattered.
In addition to Ratched's main motifs (which are omitted here for spoilers), there are so many side stories and themes that you have time to forget what it's really about: Revenge?
Same-sex romance?
A reminder of the historical brutality of mental health care?
Another revenge?
Or should it be a pure horror story?
In addition, every new person who shows up is so carefully overloaded with crazy personality traits that when genuine emotions are to be shown, they appear unbelievable because one only expects manipulation and manned behavior.
Despite this, Ratched is a mostly entertaining
and exciting story.
Sarah Paulson is good as usual - collected and on the verge of a nervous breakdown in just the right balance.
A warning is also issued to the disgusted: Ratched contains a lot of bloody scenes and disgusting bone-crush-and-crack sounds.
The lobotomy scene (which shows how it actually happened) also makes the hardened person look at the screen between their fingers.