There are some characters were you never want to know how they become who they are when we meet them on film. But with a twisted type like One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest's Nurse Ratched, there's some prime territory to explore, at least according to Ryan Murphy, who has Sarah Paulson playing the younger version of the role in which Louise Fletcher won an Oscar for the 1975 film. See the first trailer for Ratched below.
The eight-episode series is set in 1947, and finds Mildred Ratchet arriving in Northern California to seek employment at a leading psychiatric hospital where new and unsettling experiments have begun on the human mind. On a clandestine mission, Mildred presents herself as the perfect image of what a dedicated nurse should be, but the wheels are always turning and as she begins to infiltrate the mental health care system and those within it, Mildred’s stylish exterior belies a growing darkness that has long been smoldering within, revealing that true monsters are made, not born...
Cynthia Nixon, Sharon Stone, Judy Davis, Vincent D'Onofrio and Finn Wittrock also star, and the show will land on Netflix on 18 September.