I’m really digging this show. Kind of has an AHS vibe (I’m sure Sarah Paulson helps with that) only except, there’s no supernatural element. Just a bunch of messed up people feeding off of each others’ fuck-up-ness.
Anybody else enjoying it? I know we have some fans of the book on this board.
I’m assuming you’re aware, but in case you’re not Ryan Murphy created and/or produced and/or wrote both of them, as well as Fued, Scream Queens, Hollywood, Nip/Tuck, The People vs OJ…and Glee, and lots of others. He also does reuse a lot of the same actors.
I just watched the first episode a few days ago, it’s going to be another week or two before I finish it.
ETA: The person with the messed up face (again, only one episode in, so that’s all I know about him), was Porter Scavo, one of Lynette’s (Felicity Huffman) twin sons on Desperate Housewives.
Finished up the season today. Thought it was okay, but it comes across as one of those things I won’t have a burning desire to watch again. Part of the problem was that it was somewhat of a situation of all style, little substance. The show looks great, but the story gets very muddled.
Reviewers I have read have complained that the character of Nurse Ratched does not come across much at all like the character from One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest. One even suggested that the series was a spec script that was modified to fit an existing media property. That comes across as believable to me.
I agree. My wife and I are 4 episodes in. She’s enjoying it but I’m like, meh. It is beautifully shot though, and I like seeing all those 40’s cars. So it’s eye candy for me if nothing else.
And I thought that about the character too— she’s not the Nurse Ratched I remember from One Flew Over the Cukoo’s Nest. She’s amoral and manipulative but she has compassion, she’s not cruel like the movie Ratched. Nurse Bucket is more like the movie Ratched. Maybe in the course of pushing Bucket out and becoming head nurse she becomes just like her nemesis. Ooh, complex!
Been a long time since I watched OFOTCN though and I see it’s also on Netflix, so might be time for a rewatch.
I just started bingeing it. As they say at McDonald’s, I’m lovin’ it! It very much seems like a bastard season of AHS. The cars, the fashions, the slang, all the period piece touches are enjoyable. And the horror touches are delicious. Actually, come to think of it, it reminds me more of (Murphy’s) “Bette and Joan” than AHS. But still, similar stuff. I doubt it will need a second season.
I finally finished it last night. It was good, but the story seemed a bit disjointed. At least, as someone up thread mentioned, if nothing else it’s eye candy. And Sarah Paulson was great.
Something I never would have put together (though I’m sure plenty of others did) if I wasn’t looking through wiki as I was watching it was that Louise, that ran the hotel, was Honey Bunny from Pulp Fiction.
Also, I can’t believe I missed the Chekhov’s Gun.
I dig it based on aesthetics alone. All the scenes in Sharon Stone’s house are particularly amazing.
Just finished it. I enjoyed it, but, much like AHS, the final episode felt completely unnecessary. The whole series was strong for the first two thirds or so, then wandered into random territory. IMDb lists a second season. I’ll check it out, but if it never materializes, I won’t miss it.
I saw this show advertised. It looked out of character for Ratched. Is she some crazy person in this series?
Crazy? Hard to say. Amoral and determined to get her way, but capable of compassion for the unfortunate. Maybe she’ll turn into the Rached we all know and love over the arc of the series.
I wouldn’t call her crazy, I’d call her manipulative.
I only got through the slow 1st episode. I don’t feel like this is the Nurse Ratched I was looking for and wonder if there is any reason to watch more.
Is there?