Who dies in Ratched?

Huck was killed, Edmund escaped and Gwendolyn was cured
Charlotte Wells (Sophie Okonedo), who suffered from severe multiple personality disorder, had come back to the hospital despite Ratched telling her to leave for good after one of her personas killed Dr Hanover.
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Who died in Ratched?

— Betsy brings in Huck to convince Charlotte to leave, and, well, the one truly kind, giving character on Ratched gets shot and killed, like everyone knew he would. Huck spoke last episode about finding his purpose, and the writers of this show were too cruel to even give him one before he died.
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What happens to Mildred Ratched?

In the final act of the episode, Mildred has a nightmare that Edmund has found her in Mexico with Gwendolyn. In the dream, Edmund plans to murder Mildred and then die by suicide, putting a permanent end to their trauma.
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What happens at the end of Ratched?

Ratched ending

He escapes with the deranged Charlotte in Dr Hanover's old car. Ratched catches a glimpse of him on the road and realises he has become a danger to her life. The series then skips three years and now Ratched is living with Gwendolyn who is now on a path to remission.
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Does Ratched have a happy ending?

The story then jumps forward approximately three years, with Ratched having fled Lucia State Hospital and started a new life in Mexico with her girlfriend, Gwendolyn Briggs.
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What happened to Mildred and Edmund?

Mildred and her foster brother Edmund were verbally, mentally, and physically abused by several foster parents. Then, in their last foster home, they were forced to perform sexual acts onstage together in front of pedophiles and perverts.
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Who killed Dr Hanover in Ratched?

For starters, there was the death of Dr. Richard Hanover at the hands of psychiatric patient Charlotte Wells. Mildred Ratched capitalized on Dr. Hanover's murder by decapitating his dead body and delivering the head to Lenore Osgood (played by Sharon Stone), making good on the deal she had previously reneged.
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What happened to Charlotte in Ratched?

Mildred gave her $50, with the promise to send her more in a few weeks. Unfortunately, Charlotte never made it to the psychiatric hospital in Mexico, presumably experiencing a dissociative episode once the sedation Hanover had given her had fully worn off and the fact that she was responsible for a murder had sunk in.
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Is Nurse Ratched evil?

Ratched was named the fifth-greatest villain in film history (and second-greatest villainess, behind the Wicked Witch of the West of The Wizard of Oz) by the American Film Institute in their series 100 Years... 100 Heroes & Villains.
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How do Edmund and Mildred know each other?

Early on, we see their paths converge when Nurse Ratched, who manipulates her way into working at a psychiatric institution called Lucia State Hospital, visits Edmund in the basement of the facility, where he's being held after murdering several priests.
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Is Ratched a true story?

While the storyline of Ratched is fiction, the title character is actually based on a real person. While the dramatic storyline in Ratched isn't true, the character of Nurse Mildred is based on a real person. Kesey drew inspiration for his 1962 novel from working in a psychiatric wing at a large hospital.
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Is there a season 2 of Ratched?

The good news is that you don't have to worry about whether or not season 2 of Ratched is happening. It was originally commissioned as a two-season series, so it's largely safe from Netflix's ever-swinging axe and is definitely on the way.
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Do Edmund and Dolly end up together?

Dolly was an undiagnosed nymphomaniac and nurse at Lucia State Hospital, who fell in love with Edmund Tolleson and plotted his escape from the facility. Their Bonnie and Clyde-esque romance ended in a fiery shootout, which resulted in the deaths of two officers, as well as Dolly herself.
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How much money did Mildred get Ratched?

This time, Mildred was able to successfully negotiate that she would assassinate Hanover herself for $100,000.
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What mental illness does Mildred Ratched have?

One of those top five categories was Best Actress, which went to Louise Fletcher for her performance as the coolly sadistic psychiatric nurse Mildred Ratched. Ratched's power struggle with Jack Nicholson's Randle McMurphy is the core of the movie, and Fletcher's performance is indelible.
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What does green mean in Ratched?

In fact, Nurse Mildred Ratched's entire wardrobe is composed of green garments. While the color symbolizes evil, villainy, green, and envy, the green light indicates that she is becoming consumed by her lust and inner evils—it's essentially a warning of what's to come.
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What did the doctor do in Ratched?

Richard Hanover (born Manuel Bañaga) was a physician who changed his identity and relocated to Lucia after nearly killing the demented son of an eccentric heiress. Once in Lucia, he took stewardship of Lucia State Hospital, where he conducted controversial experiments on patients' minds.
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What did Dr. Hanover do to the boy?

Henry slipped Dr. Hanover an entire bottle of LSD while he wasn't looking. Henry murdered and cut off the arms of his gardener and asked the doctor to attach them to him. He then proceeded to cut off his own arm and snap the other one.
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What happened to Ms Osgood's son?

Status. Lenore Osgood was an eccentric and cunning heiress who hired Charles Wainwright to kill Dr. Hanover for his actions that resulted in her son losing both his arms and legs.
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Is Randle McMurphy in Ratched?

McMurphy appears in both the novel and the film adaptation. He is described as a criminal who fakes insanity in order to serve his sentence in a psychiatric hospital rather than at a prison work farm. The character often provokes Nurse Ratched's ire and disturbs the routines of the ward.
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Is Ratched related to American horror story?

Despite their similarities in theme, creator and actors, there is no link between the stories of Ratched and American Horror Story. The mix-up may have arisen because all the standalone series' of the latter are connected in various ways, but Ratched is a show of its own and not linked.
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Is Ratched a prequel to Cuckoo's Nest?

'Ratched' On Netflix Is A Gripping Prequel To 'The Cuckoo's Nest'
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Is Ratched worth watching?

Ratched is undeniably stylish, but salacious plot holes and cartoonish characterizations undermine its gorgeous production and committed performances.
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