| Alt Name: | Bad Guys: Vile City[1] | ||||||
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| Creator: | Studio Dragon | ||||||
| Director: | Han Dong-hwa | ||||||
| Composer: | Kim Tae-seong | ||||||
| Country: | South Korean | ||||||
| Language: | Korean | ||||||
| Num Episodes: | 16 | ||||||
| Camera: | Single camera | ||||||
| Runtime: | 60 | ||||||
| Company: | Urban Works Media | ||||||
| Network: | OCN | ||||||
| Related: | Bad Guys |
Bad Guys 2[2] [3] is a 2017 South Korean television series starring Park Joong-hoon, Joo Jin-mo, Yang Ik-june, Kim Mu-yeol and Ji Soo. It is a spin-off of the 2014 television series Bad Guys. It aired on OCN from December 16, 2017 to February 4, 2018 on Saturdays and Sundays at 22:20 (KST).[4]
Following the sudden, violent and tragic end of a corruption investigation three years earlier, a group of prosecutors and police detectives, unafraid of dealing out haphazard violence and applying torture, bands with an ex-mobster and an assassin. They are determined to cross the line to take revenge, battle organized crime, and end institutional corruption in their city.
An experienced prosecutor on a crusade, having had a colleague killed and another one crippled three years earlier. After a change in higher-up politics, he is now allowed, and willing to fight dirty to capture his targets.
A widely feared, former violent mobster. After having survived an assassination attempt, he turned to an honorable life as restaurant owner at Turtle Market where his iron fist now marks the law.
A detective, a psychopath, a gambler, or a drug addict, nobody can tell for sure. Broken and dirty as he is, he is determined, without compromise, and fights to the last breath.
A rookie prosecutor who lost his partner to a seemingly random knife attack three years earlier. Still in grief, he is summoned to join a law enforcement team which is sometimes hard to tell apart from thugs.
A young man, a killer who lived his entire life as underdog, making every sacrifice to support and protect his younger sister. After an assassination attempt on his sister (meanwhile the mayor's secretary), Gang-joo joins the investigator team, both for revenge and atonement.
| + Average TV viewership ratings | |||||
| Original broadcast date | Average audience share[9] | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AGB Nielsen[10] | TNmS[11] | ||||
| Nationwide | Nationwide | ||||
| 1 | December 16, 2017 | 3.9% | |||
| 2 | December 17, 2017 | 4.195% | 4.6% | ||
| 3 | December 23, 2017 | 2.980% | 3.396% | ||
| 4 | December 24, 2017 | 3.966% | 4.358% | 3.9% | |
| 5 | December 30, 2017 | 3.377% | 3.820% | 2.9% | |
| 6 | December 31, 2017 | 3.945% | 3.727% | 3.6% | |
| 7 | January 6, 2018 | 3.210% | 3.598% | 3.1% | |
| 8 | January 7, 2018 | 3.948% | 3.761% | 3.9% | |
| 9 | January 13, 2018 | 3.485% | 3.657% | 3.1% | |
| 10 | January 14, 2018 | 4.257% | 4.613% | 3.8% | |
| 11 | January 20, 2018 | 3.450% | 3.496% | 3.1% | |
| 12 | January 21, 2018 | 4.064% | 4.245% | 4.3% | |
| 13 | January 27, 2018 | 3.456% | 3.379% | 4.2% | |
| 14 | January 28, 2018 | 4.012% | 4.119% | 4.4% | |
| 15 | February 3, 2018 | 3.717% | 4.016% | 3.9% | |
| 16 | February 4, 2018 | 4.642% | |||
| Average | |||||