Ji Chang-wook joins The Worst of Evil in new teaser

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Ji Chang-wook joins The Worst of Evil in new teaser

by Jenzy

My oh my is it hot in here? The first teaser of the Disney+ crime drama The Worst of Evil starring Ji Chang-wook (If You Wish Upon Me) and Wie Ha-joon (Little Women) is here, and it’s already delivering exactly what was promised: a gritty crime underworld, subterfuge and power machinations, and — my personal favorite — oppas in leather jackets brooding over the moral ambiguity of their actions.

The teaser opens on our hero Park Joon-mo (Ji Chang-wook) staring down the camera and deadpanning at Wie Ha-joon’s character, “Are you Jung Ki-chul?” See, Joon-mo is an undercover cop tasked with inflitrating Gangnam’s most infamous drug syndicate, and Ki-chul, being a head of said gang, is exactly the man he wants to impress. Lucky for him, after some punches thrown, Joon-mo proves his loyalty to Ki-chul, who gives him the stamp of approval: “Let him in the ranks.”

But it’s not all gang bromance and roses now he’s in, because there are a lot of people — his cop wife played by Im Se-mi (Duty After School) for example — riding on him perfectly toeing the line between investigative cop and devoted lackey. This means while at one moment he’ll take secret pictures of Ki-chul’s office when no one’s around, at another moment he’ll cheers to chummy drinks with his new “boss.”

It’s a hard balancing act, especially since the teaser shows us that amidst the sea of stylishly shot gang fights and tuxedoed men with bats (it’s all very K2-coded and I’m totally here for it), there are people suspicious of Joon-mo’s allegiances whispering into Ki-chul’s ear. This leads to the teaser’s dramatic ending where a conflicted Joon-mo holds a gun to an unseen figure while Ki-chul yells at him to shoot. How far is Joon-mo willing to go for the sake of his cover? Looks like we’ll have to find out.

Written by Jang Min-seok (Secret Reunion) and directed by Han Dong-wook (Man in Love) and Park Geun-beom, The Worst of Evil will premiere on September 27 on Disney+ and Hulu.