Ratched, the prequel series featuring one of cinema's most memorable monsters, won't be coming back for a second season. The Netflix show set out to tell the story of how a mental health nurse became the villain of One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, but season one's poor performance and equally poor reviews mean the show won't be renewed.
You can see why the premise appeals – Nurse Ratched is a classic movie antagonist –but many critics felt that the delivery didn't live up to its promise, with some reviews suggesting that the show was perpetuating outdated and potentially harmful tropes. That was certainly the case for Bethan Ackerley in New Scientist, who wrote that while the show did remove some of the misogyny from the original book and film, it also "peddles harmful stereotypes about mental health".
