# Big Mouth (2022)

> A lawyer with a dismal win rate is pulled into a murder case and reinvents himself as the con artist Big Mouse to take down a privileged conspiracy.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/117727

## Facts

- Seasons: 1
- Episodes: 16
- Episode runtime: 68 min
- Status: Ended
- Genres: crime, mystery, drama
- Created by: Jang Young-cheol, Jung Gyeong-sun
- Network: MBC
- Cast: Lee Jong-suk, Yoona, Kim Ju-hun, Kwak Dong-yeon, Yang Kyung-won, Ok Ja-yeon, Oh Eui-sik, Kim Jeong-hyeon
- TMDB rating: 7.8/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21195490/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: brisk
- Intensity: strong
- Complexity: dense
- Violence: moderate
- Tone: tense, brooding, paranoid, intense, morally grey

## What critics say

Audiences rate the single season positively, praising its tense conspiracy plot and lead performance.

## Synopsis

Big Mouse (2022) is a South Korean crime thriller miniseries created by Jang Young-cheol and Jung Gyeong-sun for MBC, produced by Studio Dragon and AStory. Its one season runs sixteen episodes of roughly sixty-eight minutes each. Lee Jong-suk plays Park Changho, a lawyer with a ten-percent winning rate who is caught up in a murder case and overnight becomes the notorious and gifted con artist Big Mouse. Yoona plays Go Miho, and Kim Ju-hun plays Choi Doha, two figures entangled with him as the investigation widens. Park's engine is simple and urgent: he must survive and protect his family while he exposes the privileged people behind a sprawling conspiracy. Each stretch of the story layers schemes, deceptions and shifting alliances into a tense, noir-tinged investigation with a secretive, morally grey atmosphere. The series blends courtroom gamesmanship with heist-like cons, and its mood is brooding, intense and paranoid. Fans of Stranger, Better Call Saul and Mystic River will find resonance in its legal-crime mystery, its elite corruption and its lawyer protagonist pushed toward the other side of the law.

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