{"id":6244,"date":"2020-08-05T18:11:24","date_gmt":"2020-08-06T01:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/?p=6244"},"modified":"2020-08-05T18:11:28","modified_gmt":"2020-08-06T01:11:28","slug":"the-return-of-nurse-ratched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/meditations\/the-return-of-nurse-ratched\/","title":{"rendered":"The Return of Nurse Ratched"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- wp:themify-builder\/canvas \/-->\n\n\n<p>I was talking today on the phone with a great friend. He knew of my passion for all things Ken Kesey. He asked if I&#8217;d heard of a new streaming show slated for a September release. It&#8217;s called <em>Ratched<\/em>. It&#8217;s about Nurse Ratched from<em> One Flew Over the Cuckoo&#8217;s Nest<\/em> and the story begins in the state hospital some 20 years before she meets McMurphy and has him lobotomized. Apparently <em>this<\/em> Nurse Ratched likes to drink and fuck <em>and<\/em> torture the mental patients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I thought my friend was joking. He was not. He sent me a link. I read. You can too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt7423538\/reference\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I am still in shock. I don&#8217;t know what to think. From what I can tell from the trailer and promo stills, they&#8217;ve gone for the movie look, not the novel. Most readers probably don&#8217;t recall that in the book, Nurse Ratched has flowing red hair, huge breasts and long red fingernails. I bet the creator of the new show has never read the novel, just seen the movie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I read that Michael Douglas is one of the producers. He was one of the original producers of the 1975 movie. I surmise he retained the rights to the book and perhaps the characters or maybe negotiated a new deal with the Kesey family. Who knows, but I sure would like to know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Will I watch the show? I don&#8217;t know. It will probably be another bloated streaming extravaganza with 200 back stories for phony depth. A blurb on the link says the creator envisions an episode where Ratched meets up with McMurphy in a replay of that epic literary and cinematic battle. Like I said, I don&#8217;t know what to think. Your thoughts? I welcome them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was talking today on the phone with a great friend. He knew of my passion for all things Ken Kesey. He asked if I&#8217;d heard of a new streaming show slated for a September release. It&#8217;s called Ratched. It&#8217;s about Nurse Ratched from One Flew Over the Cuckoo&#8217;s Nest and the story begins in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6245,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[454],"class_list":["post-6244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meditations","tag-ken-kesey","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6246,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6244\/revisions\/6246"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}