The premise
Jake is thirty-five, has broken both hands and cannot manage on his own. His wife arranges a home nurse before leaving for work and reassures him that the agency is sending someone in her sixties. The woman at the door is Mila, thirty, in uniform, and amused by his surprise. My Wife Hired My Nurse is five episodes of one working day, with the wife due back in the evening. Candy added it after our September count and lists it as new.
The first appointment
The opener plays the mismatch for comedy: the husband’s frustration at being helpless, his relief at an unflirtatious nurse, and his face when Mila introduces herself as the carer. She changes into something she calls more appropriate for the job and makes it clear she has noticed exactly how he is reacting. Episode two is the check-up, full of innuendo about pressure and angles, interrupted by a phone call from his wife asking whether the nurse has arrived and whether she is nice. Thorough, he says. When he reminds Mila that he is married, she points out that his wife is not home until seven.
Both episodes are suggestive from the first line. The camera stays within what the free part allows.
After episode two
The remaining three episodes cover the rest of the day. Because the series is so new, it has no explicitness rating and no overall score here yet; the locked episodes are adult content, as they are across the shelf.
Cost to the end
Each locked episode is 12 tokens, which puts the finale at 36. A Premium month’s allowance covers it with tokens left for another title.
How it compares
Household help is a small theme on Candy: Room Service plays it in a hotel, Y.U.N.A with a robotic maid, and The Maid My Wife Hired, another recent addition, uses almost the same wife-leaves-for-work set-up. Mila Nowak’s best-rated series on this site remains She’s not real, a very different fantasy premise, while Your Wish is my Command scores 4.5 out of 5.
Our take so far
A light, comic set-up that knows its audience, with the evening deadline doing the same job as the countdowns in the better five-parters. It is too recent to score, but the free episodes show its tone honestly, and the standard price keeps the risk small.