The film, which was based on the novel, takes place in an Oregon psychiatric hospital and starred Jack Nicholson as Randle McMurphy, a new patient at the mental institution and his struggle to rise up against the evil nurse, Mildred Ratched played by Louise Fletcher.

Ryan Murphy and Evan Romansky’s Ratched gives us an origin story of the infamous Nurse Ratched. Sarah Paulson plays the title role and we see her deceive her way into Lucia’s State Hospital which is run by Dr. Hanover (Jon Jon Briones). This is truly just the beginning of Nurse Ratched as she will stop at nothing to get what she wants. It seems as though she has no moral compass—she engages in blackmail, importunes a suicide, and poisons a patient, just to make her way into the nursing staff at the mental hospital. And did we mention all of this happens by Episode 2?

Throughout the eight-episode series, we see that Mildred Ratched has a purpose for all of her nasty behaviors, and what seems to guide her is her love for her brother, Edmund Tolleson (Finn Wittrock), who’s a patient at the hospital after killing three priests and traumatizing a fourth.

We also see that Ratched did not have an easy childhood and that much of what she does may be a result of her less than perfect formative years. We learn that Mildred grew up as an orphan and was placed in the system with another child, Edmund, who she views as her brother. While in the system, they were tortured by all their caregivers and asked to perform sexual asks on one another before Edmund decides to murder his last set of caregivers.

While Nurse Ratched has a clearly evil side, we also see her softer side when she mercifully kills badly injured soldiers while she’s an army nurse after they beg her to end their pain. She also starts a love affair with Gwendolyn Briggs (Cynthia Nixon) and will do anything to make sure that her lover is cancer-free, healthy, and happy.

Nurse Ratched refers to herself as an “angel of mercy” which begs us to think is there such a thing and is Nurse Ratched really that bad? Honestly, after seeing Ratched we’re kind of rooting for Mildred, but we know that she returns to her evil ways when she returns as head nurse in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.

We’re hoping there’s a second season to Ratched so we can continue to learn more about Mildred Ratched and how she becomes a head nurse at the Oregon psychiatric hospital.

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Director Susanne Bier’s Netflix thriller cuts right to the action. We’ve only briefly met Sandra Bullock’s Malorie and her sister Jessica (Sarah Paulson) when Jessica is brutally killed off. First, Jessica attempts to kill the both of them in a car accident, and when that doesn’t work, she steps in front of a truck, throwing a horrified look at her pregnant sister Malorie before being crushed to death.

Malorie has no time to mourn her sister. There is chaos all around as a suicide-inducing entity emerges, causing anyone who sees it to take their own lives. It is only thanks to the kindness of a stranger, who welcomes her into a safe house moments before climbing into a burning car, that Malorie is able to survive the day. Here, Malorie must wait out the end of the world with a group of strangers who are equally as shocked and confused as she is.

What is fantastic about Bird Box is that the end of the world is not the bit that’s terrifying. What gets under your skin is what life is like for those who survive. Sure, they made it off the streets and into the safety of the indoors, but they then face the prospect of starving. To get enough supplies, they must venture blindly back out into the world, fighting to avoid the entity. They succeed the first time, but when two survivors run off with the car, they have no idea what to do next.

The next problem they encounter is deranged survivors who refuse to wear blindfolds to protect themselves from the entity. It seems that mentally unstable people are not affected by the entity, and instead find it beautiful. They want everyone to see it too and force the blindfolded survivors to open their eyes, leading them immediately to end their lives. When one of these crazed survivors is invited to the house, it becomes clear that there will never be a moment of rest for Malorie and her newborn son and adopted daughter – both of whom she refuses to name.

From then on, there’s non-stop violence and unrest. We see Malorie and her children escaping down the river to reach a community of survivors. There are multiple moments where we tensely wait to see whether they all manage to make it, and against all odds they reach their destination.

The movie ends in the only way it could. There are no answers, and there is no new and improved world. The entity remains at large, and we still don’t understand exactly what it is or how it can be fought.

Nonetheless, when the three unlikely survivors stumble across the safe house and read the reassuring words “School for the Blind,” they finally find their hope.

To commemorate the opportunity for life after survival, Malorie at last names her children in a touching and beautiful moment of triumph.

Bird Box is a violent and horrifying thriller which throws the viewer into a world where it seems the only thing left to do is survive.

4/5

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Jessica Lange

Lange will finally be returning to the show and will be reprising her role as Constance in Murder House.

Stevie Nicks

Fleetwood Mac icon Stevie Nicks will be back as a witch in the new season. Yay!

Emma Roberts 

Emma Roberts will return as back-from-the-dead Hollywood bitch Madison from Coven.

Evan Peters

Peters will be playing a comic relief role as a hair stylist.

Sarah Paulson

Paulson will be reprising her role as Billie in Murder House, her role as Cordelia in Coven and a new role as a character called Venable.

Kathy Bates

Bates will be back but she won’t be reprising her Coven role. Instead, she will be playing a new character called Miss Meade.

Frances Conroy

Conroy will be back as the quirky witch we saw burned at the stake in season 3.

Taissa Farmiga and Lily Rabe

Farmiga will return as Zoe the witch and Lily will return as Stevie Nicks’ fan, Misty.

Gabourey Sidlbe

Despite being killed off in Hotel, Queenie will be coming back for season 8. Whether she will be back from the dead or the timelines will change is uncertain.

American Horror Story: Apocalypse will be released on September 12th.

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The film, which was based on the novel, takes place in an Oregon psychiatric hospital and starred Jack Nicholson as Randle McMurphy, a new patient at the mental institution and his struggle to rise up against the evil nurse, Mildred Ratched played by Louise Fletcher.

Ryan Murphy and Evan Romansky’s Ratched gives us an origin story of the infamous Nurse Ratched. Sarah Paulson plays the title role and we see her deceive her way into Lucia’s State Hospital which is run by Dr. Hanover (Jon Jon Briones). This is truly just the beginning of Nurse Ratched as she will stop at nothing to get what she wants. It seems as though she has no moral compass—she engages in blackmail, importunes a suicide, and poisons a patient, just to make her way into the nursing staff at the mental hospital. And did we mention all of this happens by Episode 2?

Throughout the eight-episode series, we see that Mildred Ratched has a purpose for all of her nasty behaviors, and what seems to guide her is her love for her brother, Edmund Tolleson (Finn Wittrock), who’s a patient at the hospital after killing three priests and traumatizing a fourth.

We also see that Ratched did not have an easy childhood and that much of what she does may be a result of her less than perfect formative years. We learn that Mildred grew up as an orphan and was placed in the system with another child, Edmund, who she views as her brother. While in the system, they were tortured by all their caregivers and asked to perform sexual asks on one another before Edmund decides to murder his last set of caregivers.

While Nurse Ratched has a clearly evil side, we also see her softer side when she mercifully kills badly injured soldiers while she’s an army nurse after they beg her to end their pain. She also starts a love affair with Gwendolyn Briggs (Cynthia Nixon) and will do anything to make sure that her lover is cancer-free, healthy, and happy.

Nurse Ratched refers to herself as an “angel of mercy” which begs us to think is there such a thing and is Nurse Ratched really that bad? Honestly, after seeing Ratched we’re kind of rooting for Mildred, but we know that she returns to her evil ways when she returns as head nurse in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.

We’re hoping there’s a second season to Ratched so we can continue to learn more about Mildred Ratched and how she becomes a head nurse at the Oregon psychiatric hospital.

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Director Susanne Bier’s Netflix thriller cuts right to the action. We’ve only briefly met Sandra Bullock’s Malorie and her sister Jessica (Sarah Paulson) when Jessica is brutally killed off. First, Jessica attempts to kill the both of them in a car accident, and when that doesn’t work, she steps in front of a truck, throwing a horrified look at her pregnant sister Malorie before being crushed to death.

Malorie has no time to mourn her sister. There is chaos all around as a suicide-inducing entity emerges, causing anyone who sees it to take their own lives. It is only thanks to the kindness of a stranger, who welcomes her into a safe house moments before climbing into a burning car, that Malorie is able to survive the day. Here, Malorie must wait out the end of the world with a group of strangers who are equally as shocked and confused as she is.

What is fantastic about Bird Box is that the end of the world is not the bit that’s terrifying. What gets under your skin is what life is like for those who survive. Sure, they made it off the streets and into the safety of the indoors, but they then face the prospect of starving. To get enough supplies, they must venture blindly back out into the world, fighting to avoid the entity. They succeed the first time, but when two survivors run off with the car, they have no idea what to do next.

The next problem they encounter is deranged survivors who refuse to wear blindfolds to protect themselves from the entity. It seems that mentally unstable people are not affected by the entity, and instead find it beautiful. They want everyone to see it too and force the blindfolded survivors to open their eyes, leading them immediately to end their lives. When one of these crazed survivors is invited to the house, it becomes clear that there will never be a moment of rest for Malorie and her newborn son and adopted daughter – both of whom she refuses to name.

From then on, there’s non-stop violence and unrest. We see Malorie and her children escaping down the river to reach a community of survivors. There are multiple moments where we tensely wait to see whether they all manage to make it, and against all odds they reach their destination.

The movie ends in the only way it could. There are no answers, and there is no new and improved world. The entity remains at large, and we still don’t understand exactly what it is or how it can be fought.

Nonetheless, when the three unlikely survivors stumble across the safe house and read the reassuring words “School for the Blind,” they finally find their hope.

To commemorate the opportunity for life after survival, Malorie at last names her children in a touching and beautiful moment of triumph.

Bird Box is a violent and horrifying thriller which throws the viewer into a world where it seems the only thing left to do is survive.

4/5

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Jessica Lange

Lange will finally be returning to the show and will be reprising her role as Constance in Murder House.

Stevie Nicks

Fleetwood Mac icon Stevie Nicks will be back as a witch in the new season. Yay!

Emma Roberts 

Emma Roberts will return as back-from-the-dead Hollywood bitch Madison from Coven.

Evan Peters

Peters will be playing a comic relief role as a hair stylist.

Sarah Paulson

Paulson will be reprising her role as Billie in Murder House, her role as Cordelia in Coven and a new role as a character called Venable.

Kathy Bates

Bates will be back but she won’t be reprising her Coven role. Instead, she will be playing a new character called Miss Meade.

Frances Conroy

Conroy will be back as the quirky witch we saw burned at the stake in season 3.

Taissa Farmiga and Lily Rabe

Farmiga will return as Zoe the witch and Lily will return as Stevie Nicks’ fan, Misty.

Gabourey Sidlbe

Despite being killed off in Hotel, Queenie will be coming back for season 8. Whether she will be back from the dead or the timelines will change is uncertain.

American Horror Story: Apocalypse will be released on September 12th.

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