The School Nurse Files: Season 1

September 27, 2020 5:46 PM - Season 1 (Full Season)

Wielding a light-up sword through the dark corners of a high school, a nurse with an unusual gift protects students from monsters only she can see. (Netflix, 6 episodes)

Dramabeans - episodes 1-3 recap: "Quirky, weird, and maybe even a little bit creepy, Netflix’s latest original drama is here in the shape of The School Nurse Files. Our heroine is more than just the eponymous school nurse — she also has insight into a strange and supernatural world that no one else can see. Whether this is a blessing or a curse is left to be seen, but in the meantime, she’s got a school full of students to look out for."

MyDramaList show page

South China Morning Post - The School Nurse Files: Netflix fantasy K-drama a creative change of pace for The Truth Beneath filmmaker Lee Kyoung-mi

The Jakarta Post - Actress Jung Yu-mi battles jelly monsters in K-drama 'The School Nurse Files'

Decider - Stream It Or Skip It: ‘The School Nurse Files’ On Netflix, A Korean Dramedy About A School Nurse Defends Students By Seeing Things Others Don’t

ReadySteadyCut - The School Nurse Files review – Netflix K-Drama series is trippy and bewildering

posted by oh yeah! (3 comments total)

Well, I don't think I've seen anything quite like this one before. Ultimately I don't think I liked the show, but it was memorably weird and occasionally moving. (And, I gotta commend them on how realistically teen-age the teenage characters looked. So sweaty and awkward, I felt like I could smell the bad body-odor through the tv screen.)
posted by oh yeah! at 7:33 PM on September 27, 2020 [1 favorite]

this was weird and fun, even though, yes, it's downright creepy at times.

I am a little wanting of a more fleshed out ending though. I felt like it kinda just ended.
posted by numaner at 7:57 AM on October 13, 2020

I loved the premise (Lost + From Beyond + Stardust + high school K-drama) and a good part of the story, but it did seem to just end.

I want to read the book it's based on, but apparently there is no English translation yet. A few translated pages are here: https://koreanliteraturenow.com/fiction/excerpts/chung-serang-school-nurse-ahn-eun-young
posted by kurumi at 9:56 AM on October 19, 2020