Ratched, Netflix’s origin story for the sadistic Nurse Ratched that stars Sarah Paulson in the title role, features Sharon Stone as Lenore Osgood, an eccentric socialite with a literal monkey on her back and a thirst for revenge.
The series from Ryan Murphy and Evan Romansky is a pastiche of film styles that is at once horror, Hitchcockian, and melodrama, and all with a heavy dose of camp and queerness tossed into the mix.
Despite the fun Ratched has playing with film history and euphemisms for sex acts between women and food, it also examines institutions like the mental health industry and government (in the form of Vincent D’Onofrio’s Trumpian Gov.