This drama needs the test of the 4 episodes because the first 2 ones weren't really interesting.

It looked more like a detective team than an audit team for me with the chief who rushes headlong and the naive and stupid maknae. It lacked numbers for me.

I hope the President Hwang Se-Woong is as smart as Jung Moon-Sung's character in The Good Detective (before his wife decided to kill him...).

The reference to the rats reminded Shin Ha-Kyun's drama Pied Piper.

Loved it ! But a comeddyyy!!! Defiantly not. Shin Ha-Kyun is killing it. Jing Goo was unrecognisable with the long hair :) I have only problem with Lee Jung-Ha, himself and how his character written! I guess it is a miss casting. This rookie guy who believes in people, suddenly plot something behind the doors !!! It was totally different then what the plot try to portrait him! At least it should not have been done at first episodes :) I cant wait for the next week.

Loved the first 2 episodes and the fact thats its only 12 episodes means that the story will move along at a fast pace.

Jin Goos Hair and Shin Ha-kyuns performance are carrying the whole thing so far and thats not a neccesarily a bad thing, but i do hope we get some extra dimensions to our supporting cast.

Han-soo is at least showing a little bit if development, his realisation that he is ignorant was a good start.

Wow the 1st episode set off so many workplace-related triggers on my end. It portrayed so well what I term as "passive toxicity" in the workplace. Like the employees are not overtly bad people, they are generally kind-hearted but are just incompetent in terms of their own job scope. And such passive incompetency is actually toxic to other colleagues, who may have to pick up the slack and hence results in a building up of resentment and grievances caused by these free-riders who are not pulling their weight in terms of their own work. Worse if they don't even realize their own incompetency and are still all self-righteous. And then when told their flaws, instead of reflecting on themselves and working harder to improve themselves, nope they run around creating politics, painting the competent person who gave them constructive critique (the Assistant Manager dude is really getting on my nerves) in a bad light as a bad person, and trying to trip over those genuinely competent and hardworking people -.-"

And totally agreed on Lee Jung Ha's portrayal of the OTT naive rookie. It felt like the exact same rendition as his portrayal of Bong Soo in Moving, which worked perfectly and was cute but believable for the type of character in Moving, but in a workplace drama like this, his character was just that incompetent and irritating colleague who is needlessly and blindly faithful, but without any hint of competence when actually questioned about his substantive work.

Of course there will be character development, and I'm hoping to see Lee Jung Ha portray a more nuanced fitting rendition of his role.

Thank you for the 🧮 recap.

Why does Shin Cha-Il feel like Nanny McPhee who will - stay when needed but not wanted.

The plot by numbers seems fine but on paper but what is missing!? Guess we'll have to audit that. Till next week then. 👋

To my surprise, I actually like this.

It's not a comedy though, so I was momentarily confused LOL!

But I've seen enough to want to watch more, so PD-nim and Writer-nim did a good enough job with that. It'll be my sole weekly new watch for now.

Note to Beanies in Asia - it's streaming on Viu.

I really enjoyed the first two episodes. Maybe I’m unbiased because I haven’t seen NUMBERS yet, but this is exactly the OTT glorification of a supposedly “dull” occupation* that I can watch with absolute glee. The characters themselves seem like the expectable bunch: supposedly cold-hearted hero with a track record, eager but naive greenhorn (the “diamond in the rough”), righteous, extremely competent and deadpan young team member, incompetent wannabe team leader. I see a lot of potential for character growth and would love for the “found family” trope to play out - but I’m not quite sure if it will be all so rosy in the end after all.

I love how our MLs already bring their all in their detective work (being an auditor seems more action-loaded than I ever imagined), and I wouldn’t mind if they went on to bring down the bad guys in the end. Who are the bad guys? We cannot be 100% certain, but it looks like lots of plot twists and potential redemption arcs may play out. I’ll watch happily! 👏🫰💯

Ps: I really appreciate Jin Gu’s mane of glory. 💯🔥

*Only in kdramas!

Thanks @lovepark form the recap. I really enjoyed these two episodes. So many questions… is the daughter aware of her dad’s corruption so has chosen a different way to live so she actually can be trusted in the team rather than being a very calculated sleeper who will reveal her true colours later?
Why has Hansoo kept the dodgy deputy’s corruption away from the team lead? Having a spy in the camp is so not helpful?
Will Hansoo still want to head off to Florida or will he stay and continue the work of the Sunbae who has well and truly earned his respect and opened his eyes.

Two ridiculous only for the plot to progress but stood out in a drama that was doing so well.

Who takes a highly important piece of evidence that has been kept locked up securely into an empty office late at night to leave on a desk rather than handing it over personally?
Who orders the removal of a body and then says it has to be done in order to save themselves on a phone call to someone who already knows about the said dodgy things and has now been left dealing with the consequences of the crime?

I am signed up for next week and hopefully it will stay on track.

I'm predicting at least one twist. The good guys and the bad guys might not be so obvious. The presence of the VP's daughter in the audit team made me sense some interesting complications ahead.

Thanks for the recap @lovepark!
I enjoyed watching the first two episodes. Shin Ha Kyun is charming despite appearing cold and heartless. His intentions are good and I admire that he does his job well to protect the employees and punish the corrupt executives. I think JU construction and the Hwang family has something to do with that accident years ago.
Lee Jung Ha's portrayal is still reminiscent of the adorable boy in moving. Its still early so I hope he will add more to Han Soo. I am very curious about Dae Woong and Seo Jin's relationship

something turns me off and it is not just my phobia of big cranes possible tipping over

I loved the first two episodes. I enjoyed all the bits of it.

I'm having trouble lately connecting to a lot of dramas, and wasn't expecting to feel much of a pull from this one. And I don't love it yet, which simply may be due to the fact that workplace dramas where romance isn't the focus aren't really my thing. However, I like the pace and the characters, even if they're all types right now (the naive one, the cynical one, the taken-for-granted one, the corrupt one, the uncorruptable one, etc.) and the writing seems assured. I'm hoping for some more twists as we go, though, as so far, the central mystery is pretty run-of-the-mill.

Shin Ha-kyun is great as always, but if I scrutinize his scenes, I can see that the character himself is not necessarily that interesting. A highly principled, stoic, and uncompromising man with a tragic past is nothing new. I also think Lee Jung-ha is doing good work, but it's true that this character seems too much like his character in "Moving" lost 15 pounds and grew up but is otherwise just the same. That's not really his fault, except if we're going to blame him for choosing two similar roles back-to-back. He's playing what's on the page well, but what's on the page is, again, pretty one-dimensional.

But again, I appreciate that the story zipped along and appears to know where it's going.

Maybe its because some of I watched too many Clint Eastwood movies as a kid, but I'm surprised no one mentioned the context of U.S. westerns, where the stoic good guy wandered from town to town righting wrongs and fighting for the little guy. In this one, clearly the charismatic bad son of the wealthy rancher controls the town, his henchmen intimidating the timid citizenry, some of whom are openly corrupted, others who are just too cowardly to say anything, and its up to the somewhat world-weary new sheriff in town to clean things up. (In a surprising, but not totally unusual twist, the daughter of the ranch boss is the schoolmarm, conflicted by her father's misdeeds, maybe justifying them because they are "good for the town."

Fortunately, our hero seen it all in terms of accounting and purchase records, and he's quick on the draw with a pepper spray gun. He's already impressed the young deputy and changed his thinking.

The humor in this one for me is the self aware setup, the staring faceoffs, and the use of the crusader for justice cliche in a construction company. Numbers was funny because it was deadpan (maybe even unaware?) in its presentation of accounting as an action packed, highly consequential practice, with accountants as sexy action heros. This one is less funny in that way, because the consequences of corruption are workers or users of badly built structures getting hurt. But it still is amusing in the way it dramatically constructs the ethics involved.

Solid premiere! I read a few good comments about EP 1 which piqued my interest. The first two episodes didn't disappoint. I'm excited to see more. Comedy? It was not. Don't know how the jokes will fit in.

I didn't mind the serious parts though. I liked seeing the crane tower mystery play out and seeing what Cha Il had prepared for his case.

I haven't seen Shin Ha Kyun in anything before. I always think of him with a very stern, unsmiling face. XD I did like his portrayal.

Typical cast of characters so far. I kinda hope the president of the company remains a decent person because it's kinda rare for the top guy to be a good one. Interesting twist with Seo Jin though!

I was SO ready for this show, and … it came out swinging. Elevators! Suits! Car chases! Rock music! Hostile stare-downs! Baseball bats! Manbuns! Grumpy Cat! (Thanks, @hopefulromantic, you nailed that!) Honestly, what more could one ask of an accounting drama? What more, you say? Guns in the glove box, of course!

Things I noted with glee:

- There are elevators in the opening titles. Five seconds in, before any action at all, I was already rubbing my hands together in anticipation.

- The “picking sides” scenes at the start. Yeah, that’s gonna come back to bite all of you. Senior ML is on no one’s side, maybe not even his own. Junior ML is unquestioningly loyal to “his” side, until that’s the first brick in the wall to fall. Switching sides is going to be a THING.
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- “I’ve never seen a rootless, branchless fraud.” The whole rotten structure is going to fall and debris is going to be everywhere.

- Every time our dear boy comes near sus sunbae Director Bae, we get a shot of shoes - baby shoes. He’s taking baby steps.

- RAIN TRAUMA. I missed you! I haven’t seen you in (checks notes) days.

- The president - is he as good as he looks? In most dramas I would have bet on the half-brothers swapping roles by the end of the show, with the righteous-seeming president dragged down by some corrupt decision or fatal loyalty and the vice-president of the Corporate Hairstyling Division joining forces with the good guys to redeem himself – until that relationship reveal, which showed me the show has lots more up its well-pressed sleeve. Now I don’t know what to expect, and I freaking love that.

- Never mess with the cafeteria lunch ladies. They are unerring baddie detectors.

- The few actions by the few women on screen have all been reactive to what the men are doing. 😡 I’m hoping the show fixes this, but not counting on it. It’s a kdrama, after all.

- The mane-daddy/mane-daughter reveal genuinely made me gasp. So many drama plot twists can be seen coming a kilometer away. Not that one!

- Is it possible to prove a negative? When is the absence of proof enough? Can you trust without proof? Do you doubt until the object of doubt is proven trustworthy, or trust until proven not worthy? Do you trust, but verify? Is that even trust?

- NOTHING IS WHAT IT SEEMS. Or, in other words, it’s all just a drama!

Am I the only one who muttered at the screen when LJH was climbing that structure "you can fly, you know".. 😀

Bravado, leaps to conclusions and bluffs seems to be the hammer for the new Audit Team leader. His premise is like a stranger wandering into a corrupt old Old Western mining town and thrust into position of sheriff to clean it up. It takes total suspension of belief to have the audit team go beyond the numbers to be corporate super cops with superman strength like Shin to withstand an iron pipe smash to the skull. Shin’s absolute black and white view of right and wrong does not fit into a reality of a gray world. At the end of the first episode, I felt that this series would really be told through the eyes of Gu Han-soo, the clueless youngest member of the team (who as a hacker should have made a complete back-up of the laptop), and Yoon Seo-Jin, the super-serious one (with one really big secret). In fact I picked up this drama to watch Jo Ah-ram, whose short resume has been stellar in all of her performances.

It was hard to accept the special audit quick showdown (for the lack of competent evidence) to move the story along. I don’t know if the translation was correct. Instead, I think Seo-Jin is the half-sister to VP who calls her “kid” like a big brother. I think CHIEF KIM was more realistic in auditing procedures while THE AUDITORS is more super hero, quasi police driven crime investigation premise.