Season One of Ratched was released on September 18, 2020 with eight episodes.[1] The season premiere is Pilot, and the season finale is Mildred and Edmund.
Gallery[]
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Plot[]
From Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan, Ratched is a suspenseful drama series that tells the origin story of asylum nurse Mildred Ratched. In 1947, Mildred arrives 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.[2]
Cast[]
Main[]
- Sarah Paulson as Nurse Mildred Ratched
- Cynthia Nixon as Gwendolyn Briggs
- Judy Davis as Nurse Betsy Bucket
- Sharon Stone as Lenore Osgood
- Jon Jon Briones as Dr. Richard Hanover
- Finn Wittrock as Edmund Tolleson
- Charlie Carver as Huck Finnigan
Recurring[]
- Alice Englert as Dolly
- Amanda Plummer as Louise
- Corey Stoll as Charles Wainwright
- Sophie Okonedo as Charlotte Wells
- Vincent D’Onofrio as Governor George Wilburn
- Brandon Flynn as Henry Osgood
- Harriet Sansom Harris as Ingrid Blix
- Hunter Parrish as Father Andrews
- Annie Starke as Lily Cartwright
- Liz Femi as Leona
- Teo Briones as Peter
- Jermaine Williams as Harold
- Michael Benjamin Washington as Trevor Briggs
- Joseph Marcell as Len Bronley
- Rosanna Arquette as Anna
- Emily Mest as Nurse Amelia Emerson
- Daniel di Tomasso as Dario Salvatore
Episodes[]
| No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Premiere date | |||
| 1 | "Pilot" | Ryan Murphy | Evan Romansky | September 18, 2020 | |||
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Nurse Mildred Ratched seeks employment at Lucia State Hospital as it prepares to admit a new psychiatric patient: notorious killer Edmund Tolleson. | ||||||
| 2 | "Ice Pick" | Ryan Murphy | Ian Brennan | September 18, 2020 | |||
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Dr. Hanover demonstrates a cutting-edge procedure. Ratched visits a survivor of Edmund's massacre and joins Gwendolyn on an outing in Monterey. | ||||||
| 3 | "Angel of Mercy" | Michael Uppendahl | Evan Romansky | September 18, 2020 | |||
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When a woman from his past puts a price on his head, Hanover reveals a dark secret to Ratched. Nurse Bucket administers a brutal treatment. | ||||||
| 4 | "Angel of Mercy, Part II" | Michael Uppendahl | Ian Brennan | September 18, 2020 | |||
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Ratched helps Edmund find an outlet for his urges and offers her services to Wainwright. Tired of living a lie, Gwendolyn leaves her husband. | ||||||
| 5 | "The Dance" | Nelson Cragg | Ian Brennan | September 18, 2020 | |||
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Promoted to head nurse, Ratched plans a dance at the hospital and invites Gwendolyn to be her companion. Lenore makes Ratched an offer. | ||||||
| 6 | "Got No Strings" | Daniel Minahan | Jennifer Salt, Ian Brennan & Evan Romansky | September 18, 2020 | |||
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Lovers on the lam seek refuge at an abandoned farmhouse. When Ratched attends a marionette show, traumatic childhood memories come rushing back. | ||||||
| 7 | "The Bucket List" | Jennifer Lynch | Ian Brennan | September 18, 2020 | |||
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Rivals put a plan into action as secrets from the past surface, and Hanover takes a risk that pays off for Ratched. | ||||||
| 8 | "Mildred and Edmund" | Jessica Yu | Ian Brennan & Jennifer Salt | September 18, 2020 | |||
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One month later, Ratched fights to save Edmund from the electric chair while dreaming of a new life with Gwendolyn. | ||||||