Despite this clamouring from some fans for more episodes of Ratched, the reviews for the series have been decidedly mixed.
In a four-star review for The Independent, Alexandra Pollard described the series as “reliably camp” and “lavish”, adding: “There’s something self-consciously Hitchcockian about Ratched, though it subverts the director’s frequent disdain for women.
The series is set in 1947, several years before the events of Cuckoo’s Nest.
The series serves as a prequel to One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, the classic novel by Ken Kesey that was adapted into a film starring Jack Nicholson in 1975.