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Turtle Stomper

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The Fiery Priest korean drama review
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The Fiery Priest
1 people found this review helpful
by Turtle Stomper
Oct 12, 2021
40 of 40 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 7.0
Story 6.0
Acting/Cast 8.0
Music 7.0
Rewatch Value 4.0
This review may contain spoilers

There is a lot of poop in this drama.

This drama is good for a light fun time...with some dark corruption themes mixed in because Kdrama....and occasional ass explosions peppered here and there to keep things real. I especially enjoyed the comedy and character development. Hands down, the best part about Kdramas like this is that every minor character gets their moment in the sun, everyone gets their turn to be a hero. You go into it hating certain bad guys (or sometimes good guys if they're too pompous) and you come out of it liking almost everyone in the end. The bobbed haircut dude was so funny, the little Thai dude was hilarious, even the bread eating space enthusiast was super fun to watch. But hands down the best performance was from the female lead. She's so so so pretty but man can she do weird things with her face. She's over the top dramatic and I loved the scenes at the beginning when she's amping up the macho to fit in with the gross old dudes. The ML was great as well, he had a lot of emotional range... but the FL really outshines just about everyone in this drama.

The action scenes were pretty well done, I really liked the female cop flying through the air to swat a bad guy, though I was annoyed she always got knocked down eventually. Like ok, I get it, she's the rookie apprentice level fighter and she had to get knocked down for the priest dude to save the day...but still, I'd have liked to see her to get to kick some solid ass more frequently. The priest dude action scenes were well done, the humorous ones were especially fun to watch. The only times I was not impressed by the action scenes is when they clearly filmed the shots in much slower motion and then very obviously sped them up to the point where they looked unrealistic. This mostly happened at the end.

The only minor complaint I have is that some smaller plot points had a lot of screen time initially but never went anywhere. I won't give too many examples, because I don't want to spoil anything for anyone who reads this, but the main dropped plot point imo was the impetus for the sidekick cop dude to look the other way. Like it's a thing for many many episodes, and then suddenly it's just not a thing. I get that was part of his redemption arc, but the threat of specific people being harmed that kept him off the straight and narrow just vanished as well. Like clearly the bad guys used the threat effectively for years, so why do they just drop the issue when little cop dude starts popping a doggo mask to take them all down?

Overall it was a really solid drama and good for a comedy watch (with a few tears sprinkled in for dramatic effect). I might watch this again in a few years, there wasn't a lot of mystery or puzzles to figure out, so there's nothing that would really be spoiled for me in rewatching it. While I tend to not rewatch dramas ever, the really fun comedies can be exceptions. For anyone thinking I rated this drama low, for me scores of 7 and higher are pretty decent dramas. To get a 10 you'd have to be epic. This drama was good and well done, but not epic. Which is ok, not every drama has to be a 10 right!
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