Sarah Paulson’s Nurse Ratched Is Her Scariest Character Yet—But Is She Based on a Real Person?
Warning: Spoilers ahead for Netflix’s Ratched season 1. Ever since Sarah Paulson’s Nurse Ratched came into our lives, we couldn’t help but wonder if Ratched on Netflix was based on a true story. But before we dive into what’s fact and fiction from Ryan Murphy’s new horror series, let’s explain what Ratched is about.
Ratched, which premiered on Netflix on September 18, stars Sarah Paulson as Nurse Mildred Ratched, a nurse who starts a job at an asylum in Northern California in 1947. From the first episode, viewers can feel that there’s something off about Nurse Ratched. For one, she’s desperate to work at the asylum and blackmails one of the nurses already...
