Today's TV Review

Shining Inheritance

Synopsis:

Go Eun Sung leads a charmed life. Her wealthy, adoring father allows her to live her dreams of studying abroad, and the only difficulty in her life is her young brother's struggle with autism. Despite all this good fortune, everything changes for Eun Sung when her loving father dies of mysterious circumstances. After the family discovers that Eun Sung's father left behind a tremendous amount of debt, her stepmother promptly throws her and her brother out of the house. Homeless and penniless, Eun Sung takes a job as a waitress at a nightclub to support herself and her brother. Eun Sung hits rock bottom when her brother disappears. Her fortunes turn, however when her kindness lands her a new lucrative job and a new family of sorts, which leads to new fortune, but also new obstacles.

My thoughts:

This was an excellent drama, however predictable. It's a story that teaches you something about life, hard work and determination. I have to admit it was a bit confusing in the beginning, but the more you got into it, it became clear as to what was going on in the story. Our lead is a spoiled grandson who, in true k-drama fashion comes to hate her for her untimely intrusion, but can't help but fall in love with her. Enter a few side characters, an evil step mother, a misguided stepsister, and our second male lead and you have a recipe for success. The strength of this drama is essentially a Cinderella tale of sorts, with the remarkable and extremely relate able characters (with the exception of a few truly evil characters you will love to hate),for me, I was quite fond of the grandma and Eun Sung's little brother, Eun Woo. As for the rest of the characters, it was hard to get past their rotten, scheming, selfishness and stupid personalities.

Overall, "Shining Inheritance" is an interesting story, that teaches you about overcoming life's obstacles with help from friends when faced with unexpected twists and turns in modern day society.