Netflix has revealed the primary images from Ratched, Ryan Murphy‘s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest prequel collection, which stars Sarah Paulson because the infamous Nurse Ratched. The streaming service additionally introduced a premiere date for the restricted collection, which can debut Friday, Sept. 18.
The eight-episode drama is about in 1947 as Mildred Ratched arrives in California to get a job at a psychiatric hospital. Although she presents herself as a devoted nurse, Mildred’s acquired a darkness inside and he or she’s on a twisted mission to infiltrate the psychological healthcare system. Because the official description for Ratched warns us, “true monsters are made, not born.”
Paulson is joined within the forged by 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, Alice Englert as Dolly, Amanda Plummer as Louise, Corey Stoll as Charles Wainwright, Sophie Okonedo as Charlotte, and Vincent D’Onofrio as Gov. George Wilburn. Alongside Murphy, Ratched is produced by Paulson, Ian Brennan, Alexis Martin Woodall, Aleen Keshishian, Jacob Epstein, Jennifer Salt, Margaret Riley, Michael Douglas, Robert Mitas, and Tim Minear.
Click through the gallery below to take a look at all the new photographs of Ratched.
Ratched premieres on Friday, Sept. 18 on Netflix.
PHOTOS: First Look at Ratched on Netflix
Sarah Paulson, Ratched