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Trigger

★ 7.2 7K votes 2025–2025 1 season · 10 episodes Ended Netflix
K-dramaKorean drama storytelling: emotional arcs, romance beats and format traditions.This show: 8/10Criminal underworldOrganized crime, gangs and the criminal life seen from the inside.This show: 8/10TenseSustained suspense and pressure from start to finish.This show: 8/10Graphic violenceExplicit, unflinching violence.This show: 7/10AdrenalineAction and thrills as the primary reward.This show: 7/10Social commentaryDeliberate critique of how society works.This show: 7/10GrittyRaw, unglamorous realism in both look and subject matter.This show: 7/10SerializedContinuous arcs where every episode builds on the last.This show: 7/10
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Starring
Kim Nam-gilKim Young-kwangPark HoonKim Won-haeGil Hae-YeonSteinar Bakke
Starring
Kim Nam-gilKim Young-kwangPark HoonKim Won-haeGil Hae-YeonSteinar Bakke
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Votes per Episode
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"Guns flood a gunless society and chaos follows"

Set in a country where firearms are essentially nonexistent, this Korean thriller imagines what happens when guns suddenly start flowing into ordinary hands and violence escalates fast. A driven investigator races to find who's behind the influx before the chaos spirals further. The show trades on tension and a slow-burn dread rather than nonstop action, using its premise to poke at deeper questions about order, fear, and control in a tightly regulated society. Pace is deliberate, mood is heavy, and the hook is conceptual as much as visceral.

Watch it for

the unsettling premise of ordinary life unraveling once firearms enter a gun-free society.

Maybe skip if

you want fast-paced shootouts rather than a slower, tension-driven crime drama.

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All Seasons

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Limited Series2025
7.83K107h 48m
EpTitleRatingYoursVotesRuntime
▶1Episode #1.17.7
39050 min
▶2Episode #1.27.6
34661 min
▶3Episode #1.37.9
33943 min
▶4Episode #1.47.9
34555 min
▶5Episode #1.57.9
32245 min
▶6Episode #1.68.2
34744 min
▶7Episode #1.77.7
30346 min
▶8Episode #1.87.7
30446 min
▶9Episode #1.97.6
30637 min
▶10Episode #1.107.3
32941 min

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Kim Nam-gil Lee Do
Kim Young-kwang Moon Baek
Park Hoon Goo Jeong-man
Kim Won-hae Cho Hyeon-sik
Gil Hae-Yeon Oh Gyeong-sook
Steinar Bakke Union 2
Kang Chae-young Park So-hyeon
Foster Burden Jake
Lee Suk Jeo Won Sung
Park Yoon-ho Park Gyu Jin

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