TV Review: “Ratched” — A Sensational Sartorial Folly

Peg Aloi
7 min readSep 18, 2020

Ratched is lurid, violent, sexually explicit, outrageous, and has nothing whatsoever to do with Ken Kesey’s novel or Milos Forman’s award-winning film adaptation.

The latest series from producer, writer, and director Ryan Murphy is as decadent and indulgent as his previous work. Indeed, no one seems able to say no to this guy, certainly not Netflix. Like many viewers, I…

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Peg Aloi

The Media Witch is a multi-faceted writer, mainly a film/TV critic. She’s also a tree-hugging weirdo and badass bitch with a nice head o' hair.