Overview
- All 10 episodes of Trigger were released on July 25 and are now available to stream globally on Netflix.
- The series reached the No. 1 spot on Netflix in South Korea, Singapore, Vietnam, Malaysia and Indonesia by July 29.
- Lead actor Kim Nam-gil has stressed that the narrative was conceived before and independently of a real-life Incheon shooting and asked viewers to treat the drama as fiction.
- Netflix canceled a planned Trigger promotional livestream after a Songdo, Incheon, shooting on July 20 to address audience sensitivities around firearm depictions.
- The show leverages South Korea’s mandatory military training to depict a believable influx of armed civilians and interrogates the ethics of when lethal force is justified.