Wigs. If Cynthia Nixon is going to pull off starring in three series at one time it’s going to be thanks to the power of wigs. The Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Award-winning actress has already starred in the highly popular Ryan Murphy series “Ratched” which debuted this past fall. Soon, she’ll be seen in Julian Fellowes’ late 1800’s New York melodrama “The Gilded Age” and following that, she’ll return to a character she first portrayed 23 years ago, Miranda Hobbes in the “Sex and the City” sequel, “Just Like That…” To say Nixon stays busy is an understatement.

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Movies about the making of 'Chinatown' and 'The Godfather'? Series adaptations of 'Scenes from a Marriage' and 'Rashomon'? What's going on here?

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Typical accoutrements for eating raw oysters include cocktail sauce and mignonette, plus or minus a curious spirit for the uninitiated. The key accompaniment is subtlety. But subtlety is served rarely in the Ryan Murphy extended universe, so when Mildred Ratched (Sarah Paulson) and Gwendolyn Briggs (Cynthia Nixon) take a seat at an oceanside restaurant and order an oyster plate, the sexual undertones don’t go “under” at all.

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Film fans often debate the necessity of a prequel film or TV series. Often, prequels serve only to shine a light on mysteries that should have remained in the dark. Those answers to questions you might have had about a character are rarely more interesting than the mystery about what makes someone tick. Ryan Murphy hopes that film fans will give his new prequel series, “Ratched,” a chance, even though it would appear from the newest trailer that the Netflix series is going to give audiences a lot of answers about an iconic character that we maybe didn’t need.

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September has quite a few heavy hitters on the docket this year, from a new series produced by Ridley Scott and another created by Luca Guadagnino. Along with the bigger names however are some great, micro-budget comedies that beat the odds to get a season two, a remake of an adored British series the highly anticipated new season of “Fargo.”

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It’s a good month for television fans, with heaping amounts of easy escapism at their disposal, something we all could maybe benefit from this time of year.

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Despite being just the weirdest year ever, it’s also been a super-strong, solid one for television. Maybe it’s because movies got kneecapped during the pandemic or maybe it’s because we’re all stuck at home more than ever, but there’s definitely lots of good TV to watch, including our picks for the 20 best shows of 2020 at the halfway point, which didn’t even include August’s acclaimed “Lovecraft Country.”

READ MORE: Fall Film Preview: 40 Most Anticipated Films To Watch

However, the Fall has always been the big season for television.

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Nurse Ratched is one of the most iconic characters in film history. Or at least, that’s what Ryan Murphy says in the new trailer for his upcoming Netflix thriller series, “Ratched.” And for many, this might be true, as the character is an imposing figure in the classic film “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.” But in the upcoming prequel series, starring Sarah Paulson, about the evil character’s origins, Murphy is putting his very unique stamp on the wretched Ratched.

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When one thinks of Nurse Ratched, the much-despised caregiver who menaces and eventually lobotomizes Jack Nicholson’s character in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”, they think of Louise Fletcher’s haunting, detached performance. But with the upcoming Netflix series “Ratched,” prolific TV creator Ryan Murphy, after happening upon a spec script by Evan Romansky, is hoping to bring a new interpretation of this iconic antagonist, taking a closer look at her life before her outright villainy in writer Ken Kesey’s 1962 novel.

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TORONTO – Over the past two years Sarah Paulson has arguably become the hardest working woman in the entertainment business. She’s shot four feature films, two season of “American Horror Story,” a new Netflix series, “Ratched”  (inspired by “One Flew Over The Cukoo’s Nest”) for old buddy Ryan Murphy and is currently in the process of filming an FX limited series, “Mrs. America” alongside her “Carol” co-star Cate Blanchett as well as Rose Byrne and Elizabeth Banks, among others.  

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If you think TV is competitive now — and only this morning we were talking about how the sheer number of different networks and services competing for content and eyes, from traditional networks to streaming services, has caused a soaring of cost in producing TV — just wait until one of the biggest companies in the world get involved. Having conquered (at least for a while) the smart phone, tablet and music markets, Apple have been making noises about joining companies like Netflix and Amazon in producing their own original content for a while.

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