{"id":69443,"date":"2020-09-17T19:16:59","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T16:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/ryan-murphys-ratched-is-a-stylish-bloody-contradictory-mess\/"},"modified":"2020-09-17T19:16:59","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T16:16:59","slug":"ryan-murphys-ratched-is-a-stylish-bloody-contradictory-mess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/ryan-murphys-ratched-is-a-stylish-bloody-contradictory-mess\/","title":{"rendered":"#Ryan Murphy&#8217;s &#8216;Ratched&#8217; is a Stylish, Bloody, Contradictory Mess"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Ryan Murphy&#8217;s &#8216;Ratched&#8217; is a Stylish, Bloody, Contradictory Mess<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\">\n                <\/aside>\n<p><!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 3.7.7--><i>Hello and welcome to\u00a0<\/i><b><i>Up Next<\/i><\/b><i>, a weekly column that gives you the rundown on the latest TV. This week,\u00a0<\/i><i>Liz Baessler<\/i><i>\u00a0takes a look at\u00a0<em>the Netflix <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a><\/em> Ratched<\/i><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Ratched <\/strong><\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is ostensibly the backstory of one of literature\u2019s most notorious villains: Nurse Ratched from Ken Kesey\u2019s novel <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One Flew Over the Cuckoo\u2019s Nest.\u00a0 <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But it is also, perhaps even more importantly, co-created by<strong> Ryan Murphy<\/strong>, of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">American Horror Story Fame. <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dealing in a similar brand of exaggerated horror and harsh spectacle, and boasting many of the same actors (<strong>Sarah Paulson<\/strong>, <strong>Jon Jon Briones<\/strong>, <strong>Finn Wittrock<\/strong>), <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ratched <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">could very well be a lost season of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AHS.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Or, maybe more accurately given its setting and subject matter, it could be a straight remake of its <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Asylum<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> season.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ratched <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is set in 1947, at the Lucia Psychiatric Hospital in Northern California. It follows Mildred Ratched (Paulson) as she begins her tenure as a nurse there. And it is, presumably, meant to illuminate the path she takes to become the intimidating and cruel Nurse Ratched of Kesey\u2019s novel some fifteen years later. However, if there are any references to the book, they are few and far between. And if there are any signs of the character Mildred Ratched is destined to become, they are muddled at best.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is the central tenet of what\u2019s wrong with <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ratched<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and a flaw that can be <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>lied to many of its problems. That is: Mildred\u2019s motivations and intentions seem to change from scene to scene, and it\u2019s nigh-on impossible to know what she\u2019s thinking. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At times brilliant and conniving, at times detached and cruel, at times desperately emotional and vulnerable, Mildred is possibly a mastermind pulling all the strings, or possibly a frightened and essentially good person only trying to do what\u2019s best. And the show tends to change that on a whim, depending on what it needs out of a scene.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The same holds true for nearly every other character\u2019s motivation and presentation. Sometimes a doctor is an inspired altruistic healer; sometimes he\u2019s a fraud and a dangerous autocrat. Sometimes a killer is a bloodthirsty lunatic; sometimes he\u2019s a delicate soul in love who can\u2019t bring himself to violence. Sometimes a lobotomy renders a patient unresponsive and drooling in a wheelchair; sometimes it doesn\u2019t have any effect at all. This last disparity is a particular kick in the teeth for fans of the book.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The show is so riddled with contradictions as to almost feel deliberate, and yet it doesn\u2019t seem capable of that kind of depth. A much more likely explanation is that it\u2019s so caught up in its own spectacle, it abandons consistency.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To its credit, it is <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">quite <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the spectacle. The colors are rich and lush. The costumes, something I\u2019ll admit to rarely noticing, are to die for. And the gross, extravagant horror of antiquated medical practices, maladies, and injuries are out in full, Murphyesque force.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But that does not a cohesive show make, and this scene-to-scene cherry-picking of priorities makes for some truly bizarre moments, particularly when it wades into <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social<\/a> issues. One glaring instance is in the introduction of a couple, a gay man and a gay woman, who are married to each other for convenience and social respectability. It is 1947, after all. This is all well and good, except for the fact that he\u2019s black and she\u2019s white, and interracial marriage was still illegal in California at the time. And no one, not the governor of California for whom she works, nor the law firm of which he is a senior partner, bats an eye.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The show does this a lot, picking and choosing its adversities on a scene-by-scene basis, just as it picks character motivation. It feels the need to confront racism and homophobia, but in such a soft way that it often contradicts itself, forgetting the existence of the issues it\u2019s not currently addressing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Were <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ratched<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to create an alternate 1947 America free from racism and homophobia, it would be one thing. But it engages with it <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">just enough<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for it to have little to no impact, other than to draw attention to its softball presence. It\u2019s the worst of both worlds.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And this disjointedness between scenes makes for yet another strange byproduct: sometimes the same piece of information is relayed, multiple times, with little regard for the fact that the audience already knows it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In one particularly grievous example, we learn a dark secret about Mildred\u2019s past in a long, highly-stylized flashback. It is, on its own, a neat little piece of storytelling that delivers its information nicely. But then, in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the very next scene<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Mildred rehashes this information again, in a drawn-out confession, straight into the camera. What\u2019s bad is that it feels as though the audience isn\u2019t trusted to understand what it learned in the scene before. What\u2019s worse is that it\u2019s boring. A long, emotional reiteration of everything we just found out, it takes all the air out of it, sapping it of its gravity and suspense. Nothing new is learned, and you find yourself desperate for it to be over.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is the worst example of this, but it\u2019s a series rife with dream sequences, imagined futures and slightly different real futures, multiple flashbacks of the same scene, and confessions of the same information played over and over again to different people. It all adds up to a series that\u2019s desperate to show as much as it can, without stopping to question what\u2019s essential, and what could have been pared down.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These aren\u2019t the only bad things one can say about <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ratched. <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But they are the most blatant. There are even some good things to say. The acting is, for the most part, excellent. <strong>Cynthia Nixon<\/strong> is a particular standout. The costumes are delightful, as is the scenery of Lucia Hospital. But on the whole, it is a disjointed, gratuitously violent spectacle and a deep dive into a character\u2019s past that has little regard for or understanding of character.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s a mess. 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This week,\u00a0Liz Baessler\u00a0takes a look at\u00a0the Netflix series Ratched. 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