What makes Drama Five Fingers worth watching

Photo from Asianwiki.com

Photo from Asianwiki.com

The reason why I started watching this drama was not because of the storyline, but rather the controversy that took place even before shooting began. I'm a huge fan of the girl group T-ara, and one of their members, Ham Eun-Jung (beige dress) was casted as one of the leading ladies. But ever since the T-ara scandal (where members were accused of bullying their fellow member Hwayoung), the producers of the drama eventually decided to remove Eun Jung from the drama. It was such a sudden, rash decision, as you can see promotional materials were already out, which included Eun Jung. She was replaced by actress Jin Se-yeon. 

This drama is about a boy who suddenly was brought in to a new family by his biological Father, a rich owner of a piano manufacturing company, and set to live with his stepmother  and half brother. Father quickly shows favoritism to new son, stirring up jealousy from the half brother and stepmother. Stepmother murders Father, but Father leaves all his company shares to new found son. Step mother plots revenge and plans to ruin new found son's career as a genius pianist and owner of company, in order for half brother to succeed. To add to that, new found son's love interest turns out to be half brother's love interest as well. Sounds familiar doesn't it?? In other words, it's a show on how brilliantly scheming and evil the step mother half brother are, and how stupid new found son is. At many times during the drama, new found son shows sheer stupidity, not realizing that his family is obviously the ones behind all the bad things going on in his life. I'm halfway into the drama series, still hoping that new found son can come to his senses, and just beat the living shit out of his half family. But then that's not how dramas work right? So I guess I'm the dumber one for continuing to watch and hope new found son can turn things around. 

Cast:

Actor Joo Ji Hoon playing Yoo Ji Ho (new found son)

Chae Shi-Ra playing Chae Young-Rang (step mother)

Ji Chang-Wook playing Yoo In-Ha (half brother)

Jin Se-Yeon playing Hong Da Mi (love interest)

*Cast Photos from Asianwiki.com