Oddball, quirky, bizarre, amusing... 'The School Nurse Files' should have been far better than it ended up being. It had all the right ingredients, but just doesn't quite work as well as it should.
Firstly, it needed more structure. There's an awful lot of 'you have to jump to some conclusions to make sense of this new scene'. For example - initially people don't really know about Ahn Eun Young's abilities, then suddenly some of them do, without any intermediary scenes explaining their discovery, and that they're now in on the secret world.
You can't excuse those narrative jumps due to being too fast paced, either. Instead, it's the other way around. Often it just seems to meander, with a few interesting threads, but all played out in a very sedate and lethargic way. A lot of that time could have been used to tighten up the script and make a lot more of the characters, their introductions and their discoveries.
Ultimately, it's biggest flaw is how it ends. It feels as though they got canned and their budget cut drastically without warning, as the final episode sort-of wraps things up in a terribly lacklustre way, especially considering what they did in the first couple of episodes.
It's a shame, as it had a lot of potential, with unusual and well directed visuals, along with an offbeat and fun soundtrack. It could and should have been a bizarre little cult favourite, but will most likely be forgotten along with the hole in the basement...
Firstly, it needed more structure. There's an awful lot of 'you have to jump to some conclusions to make sense of this new scene'. For example - initially people don't really know about Ahn Eun Young's abilities, then suddenly some of them do, without any intermediary scenes explaining their discovery, and that they're now in on the secret world.
You can't excuse those narrative jumps due to being too fast paced, either. Instead, it's the other way around. Often it just seems to meander, with a few interesting threads, but all played out in a very sedate and lethargic way. A lot of that time could have been used to tighten up the script and make a lot more of the characters, their introductions and their discoveries.
Ultimately, it's biggest flaw is how it ends. It feels as though they got canned and their budget cut drastically without warning, as the final episode sort-of wraps things up in a terribly lacklustre way, especially considering what they did in the first couple of episodes.
It's a shame, as it had a lot of potential, with unusual and well directed visuals, along with an offbeat and fun soundtrack. It could and should have been a bizarre little cult favourite, but will most likely be forgotten along with the hole in the basement...