New York (AFP)

After "The Politician" and "Hollywood" the insatiable creator Ryan Murphy offers his third major series in a year on Netflix, "Ratched", which traces the journey of the disturbing nurse from the film "Flight over a nest hello, "Mildred Ratched.

This prequel (which takes place before the period of the main work), posted online Friday on the platform, is a digest of most of the elements that made the success of this 54-year-old producer and director.

A dazzling aesthetic, a sense of rhythm, a taste for exaggeration, an ability to serve its actors, from "Nip / Tuck", to "Pose", via "Glee", Ryan Murphy has created a genre television which belongs only to him.

Already one of the most prolific brains of American television, he has further accelerated the pace since his stint on Netflix, which would have offered him $ 300 million over 5 years, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

For "Ratched", he mixed the horror, like "American Horror Stories", with the thriller, with a pinch of creaky humor, but also of romanticism with LGBTQ scent.

An explosive cocktail, "baroque", the word he likes to use to describe his work, to tell part of the story of the enigmatic Mildred Ratched.

Created by the American writer Ken Kesey in the novel "Flight over a cuckoo's nest", the authoritarian nurse was popularized, on the big screen, by the actress Louise Fletcher, Oscar winner for this role in 1976.

To bring it back to life, Ryan Murphy chose his favorite actress, Sarah Paulson, impeccable everywhere he played her and again this time, in this experimental hospital in northern California, in 1947.

With her allure of another era, and this intriguing distance, she plays a devilish Mildred but not deprived of empathy, pursued by a terrifying past.

Nurse Ratched does not yet have the hierarchical position she occupies in "Theft", where she treats her patients with an iron fist, but the young woman compensates with her manipulative talent.

"If I've done it right, nobody knows" who she is, Sarah Paulson explains in the press kit.

"She doesn't know it herself. It's a work in progress."

This first season, which has eight episodes, was exhausted by American critics, who saw it as a somewhat vain project, where the promise, that of better understanding Mildred Ratched, is absolutely not kept.

This will not stop the locomotive Ryan Murphy, who is already announcing, in the coming months, the adaptations of the musicals "The Prom" and "A Chorus Line", as well as of the piece "The Boys in the Band", the all on Netflix.

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