Ratched Trailer: Sarah Paulson Stars In Ryan Murphy’s Creepy-Looking Origin Story

Netflix has released a trailer for Ratched, its upcoming origin story based on the character of Nurse Mildred Ratched from One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. It will premiere on the streaming service on September 18th.

Over two seasons and 18 episodes, the series (which begins in 1947, 16 years before the events of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest) follows Mildred Ratched as she arrives in Northern California to begin working at a psychiatric hospital where new and unsettling experiments have begun on the human mind. But Mildred is actually on her own secret mission to infiltrate the mental health care system, and soon her perfect nurse image begins to slip, exposing the darkness within her and “revealing that true monsters are made, not born.”

Check out the first trailer for Ratched below:

Netflix’s Hollywood: First Trailer For Ryan Murphy’s Rewrite Of Tinseltown

The limited-series presents an alternative version of history wherein actors and writers of color are more openly part of the Hollywood studio system.

As described in the official plot synopsis, Hollywood “exposes and examines decades-old power dynamics, and what the entertainment landscape might look like if they had been dismantled.” From prostitution and sexual harassment to racism to homophobia and the fascination with homosexuality, these burgeoning young stars are faced with the challenges of an unfair system, with biases against racism, gender, and sexuality that still feel prominent to this day.

Check out the first trailer for Netflix’s Hollywood below: