Let the bromance begin in Numbers’ new teaser

by Jenzy

In the second teaser for MBC’s accounting drama Numbers: Watchdogs in a Concrete Jungle, we get to see a more slice-of-life, non-murder-thriller side to our story that’s focused on the bickering dynamics between our leads L (Secret Royal Investigator) and Choi Jin-hyuk (Zombie Detective).

We open on L’s character Jang Ho-woo sitting in a new employee induction ceremony. He’s just been hired as an accountant at the prestigious Taeil accounting firm and is welcomed into the company with a rousing speech from vice president Han Jae-kyun, played by Choi Min-soo (Extracurricular). With his smarts and determination, Ho-woo seamlessly blends in among the other accountants save for one secretive little detail: he only graduated with a high school diploma.

But while his coworkers gossip about who the high school hire could be in the voiceover, we get a look at Ho-woo’s plucky past fighting off goons and proudly showing off his Taeil employee badge when he got hired, telling people, “I’m not some weirdo okay? I’m an accountant!” It’s all very adorable.

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Of course, life isn’t a walk in the park just because Ho-woo’s got a fancy new job, especially when his perfectionist senior manager Han Seung-jo (Choi Jin-hyuk) is on his case. We see shots of the two bickering, but also sharing some knowing smiles once they begin to respect each other. In the voiceover we get some major sibling energy between the two as Ho-woo whines to Seung-jo, “What’s your deal with me? Why are you getting in the way of my plans?” To which Seung-jo responds, “Because you’re going to get hurt if you keep at this.”

The teaser ends on Ho-woo being chased as a child juxtaposed with him running in the present day as he throws down the voiceover gauntlet: “I’m going to do whatever it takes to get what I want.”

And I have to agree with @solstices statement about the last teaser: this drama looks way more interesting and fun as a Suits-esque buddy workplace drama than a murder revenge thriller. Hopefully that aspect doesn’t take center stage over the love-hate mentor-mentee relationship we’ve got going on between the two leads. Fingers crossed!

Written by Jung Ahn and Oh Hye-seok and directed by Kim Chil-bong (The Second Husband), Numbers will premiere in June on MBC.