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Turtle Stomper

Seattle (USA)

Turtle Stomper

Seattle (USA)
Risky Romance korean drama review
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Risky Romance
3 people found this review helpful
by Turtle Stomper
May 4, 2021
32 of 32 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 5.0
Story 5.0
Acting/Cast 5.0
Music 1.0
Rewatch Value 1.0
This review may contain spoilers

Meanest Lead Character Award Goes To....

This drama wasn't anything special. It was watchable....but mostly predictable and a little enraging. The lead character takes the whole Kdrama trope of rude male lead to an extreme that made me super uncomfortable at times. The things his character does to the female lead are astonishingly savage. I have flat out never seen a Kdrama lead with such bad initial behavior. I get that this dude is supposed to have a brain injury that makes him enraged and unreasonable, but dude is extremely mean. This drama falls into the category of "if only you had asked a single clarifying question in episode 1 there wouldn't have been any drama".

The female lead is supposed to be a Dr...but also simple mindedly stupid. She has very limited opportunities to act as any sort of intelligent female, she mostly runs around like a half-brained quack amongst geniuses. I hated the handling of her character and I wish they'd given her a little bit more depth or added a lot more comedy to complement her foolishness. There were so many points in this show where you have to just suspend disbelief and accept that in this particular Kdrama's world nothing makes any logical sense.

Like....ok dude has a brain injury and we're supposed to sort of loosely believe his high testosterone levels make him unreasonable. His personality changed with an accident in which his friend died and somehow he's now a mean dick because of his brain injury. But in the end it's more like dude was a dick just because he'd mad at the world because his friend died. The hormones that were such a huge initial part of the story just kind of fall away into the background and when dude decides to stop being angry and be a nice guy instead he just kind of does it with no medical explanation....which is fine, but it made all the medical explanations in the beginning seem unrelated and pointless.

The worst part about this drama was the REASON he's taking revenge on the female lead. He's mad cause his friend drove drunk due to a broken heart and died. Like every episode, every moment, across multiple characters, everyone seems to just accept that it's ok to blame the chick who rejected him for his death...and because of this it's ok to ruin her life. Wait what? Is that a real thing people think? I'd be pissed at my now dead friend for being an idiot over a random toxic bitch. It's not like she shot him, she just didn't want to be with him cause she was shallow and mean and he was poor.

The side characters we boring and underwritten, the ending made me feel like I missed an episode somewhere, the acting was as good as it probably could be for such an uninspired script. I wouldn't watch this again and if you're female you probably shouldn't watch this at all because it will piss you TF off with all the overt woman-hating themes.
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