Sighhhhh...the best ones are always sooo short. I know this one will end well, JTBC earns it's success through well-acted, well-written and well-directed dramas.

Thank you @lovepark for the review. I think it was brilliant to dye Lee Je Hoon's hair white because it brought a mysterious aura to the whole business drama which people would otherwise sit out thinking it will be dull. The whole manipulating the stocks and two spikes were explained in layman's term in the drama, but I was still confused by it. How does the two spikes help with manipulation? How did the brother know about two spikes? What would have happened had Sanin invested in Jumbo pharma? Would the pharma continue to sell the medicines bought from US at half price or was Dr.Ko going to fly out after getting the investment? Why did Dr.Ko try to bribe Joon No's brother at the bank ? Was it a chance meeting or some other trap?

Thanks so much for the great recaps lovepark.
Pleassseeeeeeee let there be a season 2 with the same cast.
This was overall excellent.
The last episode was brilliant, some of those lines and plot points were chefs kiss.
I will miss this show.

I enjoyed this show since the beginning, more than I thought I would. I like where they left things at the end because I certainly wouldn't mind a second season.

Thanks for the recaps @lovepark!

Thanks for the recap @lovepark

I really enjoyed this drama and personally I would prefer it if it exited stage left with the drama re the company’s future not happening on my watch. I did not like the Chairman for most of the drama but it was cemented when he offered Juno a position on the Exec board for finding a solution that brought his daughter hope but immediately withdrew it and insulted him when Juno did not allow him to do something illegal.

The only story I cared about was the fact finding re the brother’s death and clarifying the truth about Juno. Now they have tied that up nicely I dont feel any need to watch any more of the drama.

If they do continue I would watch to see if the company story is cleared up in 4 episodes max and the rest be either story A:
Juno and the gang set up their own M&A independent company and the rest of the series is about the new cases they get involved in.

Story B:
The Maknae of the M&A team is revealed as a chaebol heir of another company and he employs the team to work for his firm. He uses the info he learnt to be a better chairman than he would have been if he had only been trained in house. The annoying senior in HR has to eat humble pie when he hears about the real identity of the person he treated like a fool. Juno would leave the new role after a year and return to Hawaii having received a bonus payout for the last case they work on and as the debt and his reputation have been cleared he can go and repair the rift with his niece apologise for asking her to call him dad and promise to give her the life her dad would have wanted for her.
If however they drag out the Company politics for the whole of season two I will be disappointed no matter how well written and directed it is.

What a freaking ending? WOOF. This was such a great little drama and I am sad it ended.

I loved loved loved this show from start to finish. It didn't skip a beat (even if a few of said beats were a bit too loud hah). Each and every character was so well-written and excellently acted by that freaking great cast. Each scene was so well-written and directed, nothing extraneous- The drama was gorgeous in it's spare-ness.
And yes, Lee Je Hoon's silver hair was a stylistic masterstroke.

Thank you for the excellent recap, @lovepark! I was so happy with this ending. It resolved the main conflict for the main character, which was finding out what happened to his brother. (I think he did want to punish CFO Ha on some level, too.) The partial resolution felt like a pre-meditated move to set up a sequel.

Last week I made some predictions and I was wrong about most of them! I was sure that the little girl was his brother's child and that's why his wife told him not to call himself "Apa" to her. But I didn't think he had such a good relationship with his wife from the earlier flashbacks, which was why I suspected a levirate marriage based on those. The flashback scenes in the last episode showed clearly that he does have a warm loving marriage. It's very sweet.

It was so frustrating watching him trying to warn his brother while scrupulously not telling him anything that might be insider information. That after he accidentally left work materials lying out to be misunderstood by his family. Yikes. I understand why he blamed himself.

I also wondered how CFO Ha could be involved in a scheme with Jumbo Pharma when he was so stupid. It was wonderful to see how the writers made him both disloyal to the company, unethical, and greedy while still being a total idiot. NICE!

But my biggest prediction was that Samoel would call the loan so that the chairman's son Teo could inherit his father's business. I thought the chairman came to the meeting about the loans because he thought his son would be there.

What a crushing disappointment for the chairman that instead of his son, the annoying CFO Ha was there instead. It's kind of wild that Samoel hired him because Teo and CEO David discussed that they do not like Ha.

One thing they set up in this last episode is about Teo's wife's (or partner's?) pregnancy. We know almost nothing about Teo but his conflict with his father has to be driving a lot of the action behind the scenes. His lack of enthusiasm about the pregnancy was obvious.

I am stoked for a second season of this. Usually I am annoyed when a drama isn't self-contained, since I consider it a feature of K-dramas that they usually do it all in a season. But I would love to see several seasons of these characters, even with the weird musical choices. They are all so interesting. I loved the symmetry of starting and ending with the meeting room. It all seemed intentional and like there would repetition of themes hinted at here in the next season.

I love the show from start to finish but I'll save my thoughts for the Beanie Review (guess I need to start drafting it).

I think many are missing the Theo/Chairman connection - or disconnection. Everyone believes that the son is in the US (where he just happened to be when the whole Jumbo Pharma scheme fell apart) and CFO Ha indicated that he had a terrible time convincing the Chairman to take on the KW3 Trillion in Convertible Bonds - for which apparently Theo was the prime mover. Why? Because if Sanin can't pay back the loan, Samoel becomes the majority shareholder.
Theo wants those shares, which is why he wanted to give Ha the KW50 Billion in exchange for DOUBLE the shares as collateral.

Chairman has said he doesn't want his children to inherit - why not?? Because Theo is scum, that's why. I'm convinced that if there is a Season 2 it will be a battle between Ju-no and Theo - with Ha as the face of Samoel, but Theo pulling the strings in the background. That will be must watch TV for me.

One final note because I don't believe there are any coincidences in this drama. Dr. Park's daughter's name is Park Eun Chae. Ju-no's wife is named Park An-na. 😎😊

As everyone says above, this was an excellent drama, one of the best shows focused on business itself (rather than just business people or people in a business setting) that I've ever seen. I found the way it made technicalities entertaining akin to the American movie, The Big Short, which rightfully won an Academy award for best screenplay.

One thing I couldn't help thinking watching the last episode, and sorry for bringing up U.S. politics into this recap, but the president and members of congress are engaged openly in stock manipulation and insider trading of exactly the same type portrayed in this show, and there isn't even the degree of censure that there was in the Sanin Corporation! But its true, now, that every show that features corruption, bullying, and harassment reminds me of our current government. Its tough to be living in a country governed by kdrama villains.

Wait, the weasel from Samoel is the chairman's son? How did you all get that? Please point me to the appropriate recap!

I was quite confused by Ju-no's relationship with his wife. From the terse phone calls in the beginning, to His hesitation when someone asked if he was married, to all the shots where he sits alone in the dark looking sad and lonely, I thought it was all leading to a marriage on life support. But apparently not? Also, the scene where he tells his niece to call him appa was incredibly insensitive for such a thoughtful and perceptive character. It added to my sense that the whole plot thread about his family was weirdly, deliberately misleading.

Other than that, loved it. Loved all the characters and their rounded humanity. Loved Lee Je-hoon's blue-white hair. Loved the cases of the week and how they echoed again and again throughout the series. I do hope there's another series so we can spend some more time with the characters.

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