Seeing double? It’s Jang Geun Suk playing the roles of a con artist and a prosecutor in the SBS drama, Switch.
Playing, not just one, but two roles, Jang Geun Suk is back with a legal-crime drama, Switch: Change the World as Sa Do Chan, a con artist who failed to become a prosecutor and Baek Joon Soo, a prosecutor who is a stickler for rules.
The drama began on March 28, 2018 with a thrilling first episode, showing Sa Do Chan dressed as a prosecutor and off to raid an illegal gambling den. However, it turned out that it was actually part of his plan to con one man!The prosecutor he was copying, Baek Joon Soo, got in a car accident while in the middle of investigating a huge drug case. His junior, Oh Ha Ra decided to pursue the con artist, Sa Do Chan to pose as Baek Joon Soo and meet with the person who held important evidence to the case. Yet, Ha Ra had no idea that Do Chan would con the prosecutors, themselves and try to run away.
The succeeding episodes are as exciting (and as fun) as the first episode, but which do not leave you so much in a cliffhanger. The plot may already be a cliché: prosecutors going after huge, respectable people of the society involved in something illegal, but the overall story is new, with one man posing as his look-alike to achieve one goal, however different their motives and ways are.
Jang Geun Suk’s acting is also something to be remarked. Playing two different characters in one drama is no joke, and he just pulled it off. The mischievousness of Sa Do Chan and the seriousness of Baek Joon Soo are well performed that you may think the characters are played by two different persons with the same face. Plus that hairstyle just suits him well!
And if you are a fan of the SBS drama I Can Hear Your Voice, you must know the actor who played the villain, Min Joon Gook. He plays another villainy role in Switch as Geum Tae Woong and you may just get so worked up with his character again.
Switch: Change the World is a totally engrossing legal-crime drama that will keep you on the edge of your seat every episode and will want you to look forward to the next. With the fun and exciting mood of the drama, the well-played characters, plus the matching background music and OSTs, you may like to add this to your list of favorites.
First published on Chuutalk.com in 2018.
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