Was it @hopefulromantic who said Cha Il thinks he is Batman, lol. He was jumping on cars, being the ultimate detective, and catching bad guys on bikes. SWOON.

Meanwhile our sweet sweet climbing Han Soo is being the Robin he has wanted to be all along, including the climbing up things and fighting.

The question now remains is Seo Jin out Batgirl or someone else.

Time will tell and so will the Audits. Next time on the Auditors........

Thank you for the 🧮 recap.

While we did go in prepared for another Numbers - basically hijinks with a side of auditing - the drama seems to have forgotten it's name and is about anything but auditing. Oh well Shin Ha-kyun is aways watchable but after his OTP level chemistry with Kim Young-kwang last year this bromance is a ship that is unlikely to sail. However much I adored Lee Jung-ha in Moving, here his character sticks out like a sore thumb. Hopefully we'll see some growth and progress or at least believability in his character arc in a basically unbelievable show. 😊

I wonder if Vice pres is actually a heart-of gold guy who has just had a bad upbringing? He is the most complex character in the drama at the moment.
-Kind to his niece and Sister (Sister in law?)
-was beaten by his father (non-bio father?)
-Is concerned that company keeps working (people get paid?)
but
-Did not make workers permanent
-Any time he can cover up wrongdoing he does
-was in with a bad group from the beginning (dodgy director in first episodes knows him 'from a baby')

It is a simplistic story so far, so its likely he is just a bad guy who is masquerading to his sister as being nice. But the opportunity is there for them to be even more complex with this character.

Things were hectic for me last week so I didn't get to watch the premiere. Reading the recaps, I feel conflicted whether the show is worth it. Need some advice here, please, fellow beanies.

Well, I just caught up with the latest episodes, and I'm liking this drama so far. I generally like the characters, but I'm not being terribly critical. I do find it funny that the other members of the auditing team are accused of not working because they basically remain in their offices doing paperwork while our auditing superheroes chase cars, break into offices, tackle fellow office workers, and narrowly escape serious injury. Since Numbers, I've been waiting for more spreadsheet melodramas (I want paperclip fights, PowerPoint face-offs, and copy machine meltdowns). This isn't quite what I had in mind, but it's still fun.

This week, I liked Hong Soo-hyun's appearance and storyline. She managed to be infuriatingly manipulative, arrogant, and pitiful all at once. I also liked when Cha-il ignored Dae-Woong's villain babble by answering his phone. Sometimes, no response is the best response.

I cannot help but watch this and gleefully anticipate what next OTT action scene will be pulled off - by auditors. Since we already got car chases, double trucks of doom (… they were intentional! So I say they were rather a revival of the infamous CLOY trucks of evil *cue Jaws theme music*), again: climbing buildings to retrieve evidence, … 😂 I really love this!!! 👏
That is to say that I found last week’s case a little bit more engaging as well, but it’s still all good. I’m waiting for more bits and pieces we learn about our mane of glory and his *gasp* family ties with rookie auditor… the upcoming plot twists considering him I can now sense from a mile away. Bring it on! 👏

Disclaimer: I always liked procedurals. I happily sat through seasons of random police, PI, and legal dramas. If I was expecting any more from this show, I wouldn’t be watching it. 🤓

Thanks @lovepark I agree this is not what I thought it would be but I am enjoying it for what it is.

I am desperate to know if the niece’s dad was friends with the VP. My theory is the dad died and they were left in a bad place so once the VP found out he helped them out with housing and generally being an Uncle figure so now she feels torn as she knows this caring side of him.

I want the deputy auditor to receive his consequences for being a spy in the camp soon as he is so annoying. I am glad the rest of the team seem competent and want to do their jobs well.

This drama is kinda disapointed.

The different stories don't make sense, the characters are over the top, the investigations don't look like auditor's work...

Lee Jung-Ha speaks like he was 5 years old and not an adult. I wonder how he ended to do this job...

Shin Ha-Kyun is charismatic but his character is kinda boring.

I’m confused. I thought Dae-woong said “where’s my daughter?”

The speculation and assumptions without concrete legal evidence is really dragging down the embezzlement story in Episode 3. It is really dumb for the VP to take control of the audit team then summarily fire Shin for trying to stop a flight risk for a criminal prosecution. To counter the VP command, just call the police to red flag her passport. Or call their insurance carrier to file a claim on the company's E &O policy. If the Union president confessed then there is grounds to arrest her. (But he did not which is a writer’s crutch so far: people tell Shin one thing and the police another). The company really should back away from investigating the matter (let alone the apparent conflict of interest).

But the series is clearly not a office drama or a crime show but Shin as the Corporate Terminator in a fantasy world. There were so many holes in the wind-up to this week’s embezzlement caper I thought I was watching Swiss cheese being packaged into single slices. The money magically appears in a car trunk? The evidence chain of custody errors, the breaking and entering, the hearsay, the speculation, the smugness of Shin and the pathless solutions seems to be the plot formula for an unrealistic accounting theme. OK, even if this is pure Marvel escapism, then let that roll unabated by logic. This is no more apparent than next week’s episode when the “audit” team becomes a counter-terrorist squad. Really?

When American drama writers lose control of their foundational story elements, they often claim the show was really just “a character study.” This week we can conclude that the lead, Shin, is an obsessive non-romantic. I think the acting is still good, in an upscale Old Western way, but the plots cannot be believed with any sincerity.

I am absolutely loving this drama. I had pretty low expectations going but Shin Ha Kyun and Jin Goo's hair (it's beautifull) were enough to entice me to start it and I binged watch all four episodes in a day. Are there any auditors watching because half of what their doing falls into the line of detectives?? Han Su still annoys me and I can't tell if it's the character or the acting - he's way too naive for this job.

The highlight of this episode for me is the Cha Il / Do Woong relationship. Idk if anyone noticed but Do Woong is slowly warming up to him and every time he interacts with Cha Il, he starts blushing and smiling to himself - OBSESSED!!

🕵🏾‍♀️ Theory Time:
1. What is Seo-jin’s relationship with Dae-woong? He clearly cares about her, he’s practically raised her and is a father figure in her life (he even fixed her bedroom door). But she saved his name as Uncle in her phone and her mother didn’t refer to Dae-woong as her brother or with any real affection. Is Seo-jin his secret daughter 🤔 OR is she the president’s secret daughter (which would be WILD)?
2. Do we have any info on the construction company responsible for Cha-Il's father's death? They show has yet to mention if they were held accountable.. wonder if it's JU

At the start I was all set and excited for a Stranger/Forest of Secrets tone to the show. It’s diverged from that (hello Batman)but I’m still here. 😂

I do want to be pleasantly surprised in the end. I just dont want to take this show seriously since all the law breaking the auditors do are just mindboggling. There is bound to be repercussions for them.

Thanks for this insightful recap @lovepark. I've been trying to figure out what seems off about this show and you captured it so nicely. I also have a hard time believing Shin Ha-kyun would star in a show without some kind of clever nuance, so I'm waiting to see what develops. As of now it does seem likely that the true villain is the president, and that Jin Gu's VP is playing some kind of long game, but even that is kind of obvious already so I'm hoping there's another layer within the layer, so to speak.

I hope the show continues to go from case to case, wrapping up each case in one to two episodes. And so far there doesn’t seem to be a hidden big bad pulling strings--except maybe the president scheming to get rid of the VP. Looking forward to the next case of…cafeteria poisonings?

Anyway, all I really want to say is, I am 100% on board with Jin Gu’s hair. 100%. I'm learning to live with the man bun, but, I prefer it loose and fluffy so that he has to violently sweep it off his face in frustration. 🙃

First let me be clear, that I like this show, and I thought these last two episodes were funny, not, just in the overdramatized Numbers sense, of showing accountants as crusaders for social justice (although that is funny) but in the characters, the exaggerated scenarios, and very intentional use of tropes (two white trucks!), and even what could be a running Spiderman gag, having Han-soo climbing precariously at great heights. (Although I still think there’s a western, not superhero theme—note Han Soo drives a Ford Bronco?)

But I also am enjoying the show as a fun corporate corruption/investigative drama. its analogous for me with the recent Crash, which had the traffic division solving big time murder cases and dealing with agency corruption. Its totally implausible, but that doesn’t keep the cases and the episodes from being entertaining.

In that regard, I have to register my dissent to some of the harsh criticism this show is receiving from the recapper, who is “shocked by the lack of nuance in the writing.” To that I would say two things: the villainous vice president—-or is it the villainous president?—are pretty complex characters for this type of drama. Also, what do critics expect? Some sort of My Ajhussi like study of anguished accountants ruminating over the wrong turns their life had taken, as they studied the numbers flashing across their screen?

I think there must be something about accounting that brings forth a literal mindedness among viewers. Even in these threads, you see echoes of the way-too-serious responses to Numbers which kind of surprised me in comments about that show,, as in “I had no idea that accountants were sexy social justice avengers who in the age of Excel, find crucial paper documents in the library while staring hotly at each other!”

Of course, viewers are free to be as literal minded as they want in their response. I know when I’m interpreting “The Housewives of Dubai” as serious commentary on the fraught situation of the Middle East in world politics, I get annoyed when someone comes along who says, “you do realize its a light hearted t.v. show, don’t you?” Yes, I say, but the catty behavior of rich women acting for the camera should be taken seriously! and I suppose that’s what many critics of this show, and defenders of accounting as the key factor in the rise of the modern corporation, would argue.

Also, in one regard I completely agree with critics who are upset that these two episodes were totally implausible and this show is “off” because it isn’t showing auditing the way it should be portrayed: there is no way any guy married to the beautiful Hong Soo Hyun would cheat on her and try to double cross her with a finance manager. That dimple on her chin when she smiled? I’m disappointed that she isn’t the villain in every episode! She could embezzle from me anytime!

I am continuing to enjoy this drama. Not as much as CRASH but like CRASH, if I turn my brain off before watching it, it's fine as weekly entertainment.