How many episodes are in The Apartment Job?

The Apartment Job has 12 episodes in this listed season.

When does The Apartment Job premiere?

The Apartment Job premieres on 2026-07-11.

Is The Apartment Job a new series?

The Apartment Job is a new series (Season 1).

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The Apartment Job(2026)

Also known as The Apartment (2026) • El capo del bloque • El complejo de apartamentos

Archived · JTBC

7.11512 eps

S01

DramaComedyCrime

ON AIR: JUL 11Season 1Archived listing

What to Expect

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The Apartment Job runs a corruption caper through a dry, fast comic register where the humor does not cushion the danger so much as sharpen it. A former gang boss and an aspiring lawyer are after a building's reserve fund, and the scheme keeps widening, pulling in more corrupt players and raising the personal cost of every move they make.

Their partnership is the live wire. Neither character has obvious reason to trust the other, and that distrust is not resolved so much as managed, badly, under pressure. Every escalation in the con forces them to rely on each other a little more than is safe, and the comedy lands hardest precisely when that reliance starts to look like a liability neither of them can afford.

Best for

high-speed con, dry dark comedy and Drama

Story lane

Drama and Comedy

Commitment

Season 1 · 12 episodes

Where

JTBC

Official Premise

Desperate for cash, a former gang boss joins forces with an aspiring lawyer to steal an apartment complex’s reserve fund. Their risky plan draws them into a wider web of corruption, testing their motives and ability to work together.

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Strongest Match

Berlin and the Lady with an Ermine keeps the same con-game energy as The Apartment Job, where deception is the main event and every move has a cost. Watch the crew choreography and dry, confident banter turn each plan into a fast, escalating scramble, with danger rising as trust and timing get tested.

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Why this pick

The Gentlemen delivers the same dark-comedy crime momentum as The Apartment Job, with jokes landing right beside real danger. In both, a mismatched pair gets dragged into messy criminal logistics, and the dialogue-forward pressure keeps pushing them into improvising while inherited or workplace power keeps getting in the way.

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Why this pick

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