Ratched season 2: Everything we know so far

Ratched flavor 2: Everything we know and then far

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The psychotic nurse will see yous at present ... for Ratched season two. Netflix's horror thriller will return to delve further into the insane earth of Nurse Mildred Ratched (Sarah Paulson).

Ratched season two is definitely happening, since the Ryan Murphy-produced evidence started out by receiving a 2 season order from Netflix. The first flavour introduced the younger version of the iconic character from the 1975 classic film One Flew Over the Cuckoo'southward Nest. Season 2 will go along telling the story until the timeline matches the movie.

The prequel series comes from co-creators Ryan Spud and Evan Romansky and begins with Mildred getting a nursing job at Lucia State Hospital, a leading psychiatric institution, where new and unsettling experiments are done on the human mind.

Mildred presents a stylish, buttoned-up exterior that hides a growing darkness within. During season one, Mildred is revealed to be the foster sis of series killer Edmund Tolleson (Finn Wittrock), who is being treated at the hospital.

Meanwhile, California governor George Wilburn (Vincent D'Onofrio) funds the controversial experiments, hoping the project helps him get re-elected.

Hither's everything we know almost Ratched season 2 so far.

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Ratched flavour 2 release engagement speculation

Netflix has not announced a release date for Ratched season 2 yet.

With the pandemic standing to filibuster some film and idiot box productions, it's unclear when filming on season 2 will begin. Last September, Paulson told Variety she is "going dorsum to piece of work soon, not on Ratched." That projection was probably the new season of American Horror Story.

Both shows are Potato creations, equally well, which means the super-producer could be decorated for quite awhile.

"Nobody knows annihilation nearly season ii because Ryan, with the number of things he has going on," Paulson said, "Who's to know when when that'due south all going to begin, and y'all throw in the pandemic so we think well who knows?"

Information technology seems likely that Ratched flavour 2 won't motion-picture show until autumn or winter 2021, or even possibly spring 2022. If that's the case, it may not be released on Netflix until late 2022.

Ratched cast

While the Ratched season 2 cast list is unconfirmed, it's safe to say that Sarah Paulson will be back as the title character, Nurse Mildred Ratched.

The other cast members expected to return for season 2 are:

Finn Wittrock equally Edmund Tolleson, a series killer inmate at Lucia State Hospital and foster brother to Mildred
Vincent D'Onofrio as Governor George Willburn, the governor of California
Cynthia Nixon as Gwendolyn Briggs, Governor Willburn'south press secretary and campaign manager, and Mildred's beloved interest
Judy Davis as Nurse Betsy Bucket, Head Nurse at Lucia State Hospital
Sophie Okonedo as Charlotte Wells, a patient with dissociative identity disorder
Amanda Plummer as Louise, a motel managing director
Brandon Flynn every bit Henry Osgood, a psychotic killer

There are several notable Ratched cast members who won't be returning for season 2, since their characters are dead. It's possible, though, that they could show up in a flashback, dream or vision:

Sharon Stone every bit Lenore Osgood, a wealthy heiress and Henry's mother
Jon Jon Briones as Dr. Richard Hanover / Dr. Manuel Bañaga, the director of Lucia State Infirmary
Corey Stoll as Charles Wainwright, a hit man hired by Lenore Osgood to kill Dr. Hanover
Alice Englert as Nurse Dolly, a nurse trainee and Edmund's dearest interest
Charlie Carver equally Huck Finnigan, an orderly whose face is disfigured from the state of war
Jermaine Williams as Harold, a security guard

Ratched season 2 plot and spoilers

While very footling is known about the verbal plot details of Ratched season ii, we can make some guesses based on the ending of season i.

In the finale, Edmund escaped Lucia State Hospital with the help of swain patient Charlotte and motel manager Louise. Meanwhile, Mildred has moved to Mexico to offset over with her love Gwendolyn (who has been diagnosed from lung cancer).

So, after a two-twelvemonth time jump, Edmund chosen Mildred. Assertive that she had previously planned to kill him, he tells her he'due south found her new hideout and he'due south going to kill her and Gwendolyn. Mildred's response: Non if she kills him beginning.

The overall thought for Ratched is to become closer to the fourth dimension of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

"We're definitely doing a second season, merely if we were to become on, the plan would be to do about four seasons," Paulson explained to Elle.com. "And in the fourth season, we cease up in the Cuckoo'south Nestera. Only I don't believe we volition ever find ourselves in the hospital [from the picture show], unless information technology'due south pre McMurphy being admitted, unless information technology's pre all those patients being there. Unless you want to see computer-generated Danny DeVitos and Jack Nicholsons acting with me, which, I don't know that that'southward the fashion to do information technology."

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