its quite interesting so far and having Jang Geun-seok bad is a bonus!

I saw the first couple of episodes last night and am finding it very well done so far, great set up and an intriguing mystery. The only problem, as several pointed out in the first episode discussion, is that some scenes are impossible to view because they are filmed in darkness! Police stations might not generally be well illuminated, but how could the doctors work in that hospital they showed if they couldn't see their patients!
I get it, that its presenting a somber, grim story, but please, could someone either use a flashlight or flip on the light?

Hmm, as always I don't know where to start.
Shows about/involving corruption always make me feel a bit like a bad person because I end up wanting the characters to die and this is no exception. There were times that I thought "does no one get into police work because they believe in justice or helping victims?" Most (if not all) of the police officers shown dismiss fraud cases because it's not "big" enough to get them promotions. Is that all that matters? Promotions? And then actually doing your job or even being the tiniest bit of idealistic is treated as the epitome of naivité. Stuff like this is why I have trust issues.

Then on the victims side, the show manages to make them sympathetic and dumb (to me) simultaneously. They're sympathetic because of how their lives were upended yet no one cared and then they were forgotten but then (as many people think) why did they invest their ENTIRE LIFE SAVINGS?! There are no such things as get rich quick scenarios for poor people or people in their situations. Why would they believe his assistant when she came in claiming to be a victim?

One thing I liked was how the antagonist was shown in his early days and it was shown that he was once scammed then belittled & insulted by the police so he decided to become a scammer himself in part as payback. What I liked about this was showing how even if someone thinks they are smart enough to recognize one type of scam, there can be another one right around the corner or there can be levels to the scams. Again, this is why I have trust issues.

I saw a comment that said something like "does corruption only happen at night? Why can't anything happen during the day because the scenes are so dark". It is kinda ridiculous how dark and gray this show is.

One of the things that I dislike most is the shots when the characters seem to be looking directly at the camera. In universe they are just having conversations but it's so weirdly shot to me.

Ep 3-4. What is happening?! The flashbacks of Noh Sangchun’s early days somehow made me like him and root for him!

As for the killer, the build-up to the end of ep4 was laughable the way it was shot to show us his face, like it was some big reveal that was supposed to make us gasp. Except it’s so gdamn dark, we can’t make out his face at all!

What’s the reason for Dohan’s loyalty to the deputy chief? Did the chief work on Dohan’s sister’s murder case? The detective they showed in the flashback wasn’t the present-day chief. But over and over again Dohan offers to cover up Anything the chief needs him to cover up.

During that argument about the first victim and what the chief was hiding, when Dohan was screaming at the top of his lungs I swear I expected him to yell out GO MINAM! and I was taken out of the story for a moment. 🙃

And I've finally completely this series and my main takeaway was "did I even have to finish this?" Maybe it's because I'm a jaded black heart but I didn't feel anything for anyone really. Noh Sang Chun was the more interesting character, to me, in part 1 as in I wanted to know about him and see his engagement with Det. Goo. Part 2 made me think I should've just stopped with Part 1.

I get the main idea is supposed to be scams are bad and can ruin lives but most of what I felt was the fraud victims were victims of their own stupidity, greed, or naivité. Then the murder victims were a**hole victims so didn't feel any sympathy or sadness over them dying. The only one whose death was remotely sad was the former college student turned former prisoner. He really had the absolute worst luck but even that is knowing, not feeling anything for him. The corrupt officials were only taken down because Noh Sang Chun was too petty and smart to go down alone.
I don't even remember who the killer was nor do I remember anything about his wife and daughter. Why were they in a cold room?

Not sure why this needed to be in two parts. Could've still had a time jump during a full run.

Why is this show shot so dark?

Overall, maybe other people took away the right messages and enjoyed this but I'm not one of them.