Ratched

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a movie I have seen many time actually. Love that film.

How does this series compare? I'd say they don't compare. They are just two entirely different entities and cover very different territories.

Ratched takes one of main character's from the movie and uses her as a germinating point, but puts her in an entirely different context.

In the movie, Nurse Ratched was more of a symbolic entity of a heartless system (and in a greater sense an entire society) that wouldn't accept any deviations from a dictated "norm". She was a living embodiment of the crushingly grind of conformity and a stifling of originality.

In this series she is the "deviant". She's the one who doesn't fit in. So far, the series seems to be more of a bit of a bizarre horror story. There is social commentary but it is secondary to the quirky thriller.

There are a lot of very interesting camera shots (kind of reminds me of the sort of thing you see in a Wes Anderson movie with obsessively symmetrical compositions and extremely vivid colour palette). There is a definite feeling that you are in a self-contained world.