I mean, I gotta respect the fact that dozens of people were like “yep, this sounds crazy, but we are gonna make this show anyways.” And I think it works out! Maybe? Watching it is a weird experience. Yes, this is a show about a school nurse who fights off jellies. The thing that makes this show actually weird is how seriously it plays it. The jellies are bright colored, sometimes cute looking, occasionally truly monstruous looking. The school nurse fights off these jellies using a multicolored lightsaber and squirt guns. But this show does not have quirky, cute music, or even many jokes. The tone is more like what you’d expect from... maybe like a show about a school haunted by ghosts. Except it’s colorful jellies. Occasionally when the jellies take over a student or something the behavior of the students can be really disturbing. But then a jelly will explode into a million cute red hearts. Like wtf is happening. (There is a bit of an ick factor, btw. Pulling the jellies out of people’s skin can look gross. Another person eats the jellies and it’s hella gross.)
The main duo are great. I don’t really know how to label their relationship. Reluctant allies turned friends? They have a pretty funny dynamic but in a subtle way. They both have very different attitudes towards these events. The school nurse Ahn Eun-young is my favorite character, and is in the running to be my fave kdrama character of the year. She’s slightly unhinged, blunt, a bit cynical but still working hard to save the day. She’s a very unique character and I like her a lot.
You kinda have to turn off your brain to watch this show because trying to process the weird tone and random stuff happening is a bit much and you’re not really meant to understand it anyways. My main criticism is that they try to ram in some random plot points towards the end and they just didn’t spend enough time explaining the two different secret societies. But it didn’t really seem like it mattered anyways.
I do recommend the show as an experience but I’d have a hard time recommending it as really good.