The show enjoyed modest viewership share, but it beat its competitor by topping the important 20-49 year old demographic, as well as streaming, popularity, and brand reputation charts for consecutive weeks.[7][8]
Synopsis
The series is about Noh Ji-wook (Ji Chang-wook), a prosecutor, and Eun Bong-hee (Nam Ji-hyun), a prosecutor trainee, and how they work together on a mysterious case involving a sly psychopath murderer. They find out how deeply connected they are by their past. A forgetful killer can be a dangerous thing. Noh Ji Wook (Ji Chang Wook) is a prosecutor who changes jobs to become a private attorney at a powerful law firm. Eun Bong Hee (Nam Ji Hyun) is a prosecutor trainee who works with prosecutor Cha Yoo Jung (Nara), Ji Wook’s ex-girlfriend who desperately wants to win him back. Attorney Ji Eun Hyuk (Choi Tae Joon) is a longtime family friend of Ji Wook’s but harbors some resentment about their different family circumstances.
When a murderer strikes, Bong Hee suddenly finds herself as a suspect in the murder. But it appears the real killer has amnesia, and the killer keeps coming after Bong Hee and Ji Wook.[9]
A prosecutor in the Sunho District Prosecutors' Office who ends up switching professions to private attorney in the aftermath of defending Eun Bong-hee, a defendant in which he supposed to be her opponent. He harbours a trauma stemming from an event in his childhood involving his parents and first love. Bong-hee falls for him though he does not initially return the feelings. He comes to realizes his feelings for her eventually and tries to win her over again. However, he started to be swayed again by the fact that Bong-hee's father could have been the arsonist who set the fire in which his parents died.
A prosecutor trainee at Ji-wook's office, later lawyer who was a Taekwondo athlete in her youth. One day, she suddenly becomes a murder suspect as her ex-boyfriend dead body was found in her house in which she had no alibi, causing Jang Moo-young to keep coming after her and blames her for his son's death.. She eventually falls for Ji-wook after he defended her. He eventually pursues her as he realizes his feelings for her but she is skeptical to accept his feelings as she was initially rejected by him.
A lawyer with complicated family relationships who had a particularly harsh adolescence. Once best friends with Ji-wook, he is now despised by him but tires his best to get back to being best friends with Ji-wook
Bong-hee's mother who loves her daughter. She works at a massage parlor where she befriends Ji-wook's mom and later ends up working for Ji-wook's mom. The two are frequently indulged in friendly banter
A victim who was accused of murder which has similar vibe to Bong-hee's case, but has a mysterious identity that lies in him.
Kim Hong-fa as Jang Moo-young
Jang Hee-joon's father and the District Attorney of Sunho District. He believes in upholding the might of the prosecution even if it meant defaming common people.
The early working titles for the drama were Beware This Woman and Suspicious Romance.[16] The first script reading took place April 4, 2017 at SBSIlsan Production Center in Tanhyun, South Korea.[17][18]
^ abThe series was originally packaged as twenty 60-minute episodes. In In order to circumvent Korean laws that prevent commercial breaks in the middle of an episode, what would previously have been aired as single 60 minute episodes are now being repackaged as two 30 minute episodes, with two episodes being shown each night with a commercial break between the two.[2] This, following a fall in ratings and eventual 2-episode cut in the preceding drama serial Saimdang, Memoir of Colors.[3]
^"The Irony of Suspicious Partner". Newsen. 그러나 전체 시청률을 제외한 TV 화제성, 브랜드 평판, 2049 시청률 등에서는 '수트너'가 압도적으로 1위다. 전체 가구 시청률에서 20세에서 49세까지의 시청률을 별도로 산정한 '2049 시청률'은 '수트너'가 6연속 1위를 차지했고, TV 화제성에서는 3주 연속 1위를 유지했다. '수트너'의 주인공인 지창욱은 5주 연속 TV 드라마 출연자 화제성 1위에 이름을 올렸다.