Ratched (Ratched Sister): Sisters are not what they seem

The old profurset, which was drunk back in the days of Prohibition, contains a motel where moths with cameras flew through the left wing. Sensation: a special copy will soon arrive at a fashionable hotel for the insane located next door – Edmund Tollson (Finn Witrock) showed dislike for Catholic priests in the first minutes of the first episode, plugging four with a knife. The guy needs a psychiatric examination: healthy – on the chair, sick… He can’t be sick, the public demands to roast the bastard. An elegant person arrives at the motel of an old professional, calling herself “Mildred Ratched” at the reception.

Ryan Murphy has a kindergarten enthusiasm, dissecting famous genres like a child disassembling a mechanical alarm clock. The newly assembled mechanism either does not work at all, as in most seasons of his “American Horror Story“, or works differently, achieving completely different goals.

In the heat of postmodern revelry, this leprechaun, sorry, showrunner (even leprechauns are sick of such a term), encroached on the shrine: the film “Flying over the Cuckoo’s Nest” by Milos Forman has been a hymn to nonconformism for more than half a century. Really, where else will you see a crazy party for madmen with an easy-going Danny DeVito? Blackjack, whores, suicide-Jack Nicholson didn’t even need to play, his McMurphy was Jack’s alter ego. As long as Ratched’s sister (then Louise Fletcher) I didn’t give him a lobotomy session…

At first glance, Ryan Murphy is interested in the causes of the merciless phenomenon of Mildred Ratched. But – no. Not really. In this hospital, the interiors resemble a hotel in which another Nicholson character tried to write books, a parody of the entire modern North American reality is placed. And it works. Because the modern North American reality has found an ideal shelter.

The asylum works according to the old principle: whoever first put on a bathrobe is the doctor. If you are trying to hope that you accept the world around you sensibly, believe me – the Hatter was a hundredfold more cylindrical smarter, but even he did not survive. The head physician, Dr. Hanover (John John Briones), is a foppish Filipino, comically obsessed with new ways of admonishing patients, mastering the most advanced methods on the poor fellows. He is like a bun, which the predatory Linor Osgood (stunning Sharon Stone), a fox with an evil memory and unthinkable capital, is trying to reach.

“Girl,” said the Cheshire Cat, “everything is awry here. If you were in your right mind, you wouldn’t be here.”

Ratched’s sister (the adorable Sarah Paulson, Ryan’s muse) has been crazy for a long time. Reasons are given for this (everyone has reasons for the darkest evil, don’t they?). Here, in general, everyone is justified, as with a good lawyer.

The Black woman was mocked by a flock of “white” jackals, which led to the reproduction of her personalities, Dr. Hanover decides to treat her with hypnosis, although he recently drilled a couple of lesbian heads. The owners of the heads were stupefied for a while, but they did not stop being women lovers. Lesbians have their own motive, drowned out by the Black woman’s threats to Hitler.

Ryan Murphy unexpectedly cleverly and wittily presented all the perversions of the modern USA, placing this Sodom in a California mental hospital sample of 1947. In such an entourage, fashion trends are not something that does not hurt the eye, they are completely in their place. To the accompaniment of Glen Miller’s “Moonlight Serenade”, mental parasites are exposed, the situation is heating up…

In the middle of the season, the film crew gives out suspense in the spirit of Hitchcock, perfectly contrasting with the rich colors of post-war cinema. Everything is based on style and taste: Ratched, Hanover, Governor Wilburn, even a professional, for God’s sake!.. Baths are very textured, in which, by increasing the temperature of the water, benefits are applied and treatment is inflicted on all sufferers. The only terrible episode is tied to these coffins with boiling water.

Reinterpretation of the story of Bonnie and Clyde is also available, only the local “Clyde” quickly freaks out from his “Bonnie”, which, as befits the staff of a psychiatric hospital, goes off the rails with the speed of a March cat. Kamil, judging by his name – Tatar, Saint-Saens provided his immortal composition “Dance of the Dead/Dance Macabre” for the title credits.

Ryan Murphy built a multi-storey satire, varnished with costumes, hairstyles, cars, the beauties of nature. Going down all the floors, the viewer risks not remaining the same, well, it doesn’t matter, current psychiatrists prefer pills to electroshock, even for patients.

Going on a journey through the series filled with foolishness and broken destinies, start correcting the world today, and start with yourself. Otherwise, satire will turn into a bitter verdict on humanity. There, in the garbage, a crow’s beak broke a rat’s skull. Serene dreams, Moon Dogs!