It's been like 12 hours since I finished the last episode of this series and I still can't get most of the scenes out of my head, I keep wanting to re-watch some scenes over and over. It's surprising and different for me because this one is a thriller, not my favourite genres (romance and comedy). How can a thriller be this thrilling? My thoughts.
It was recommended to me by a friend who doesn't see much of kdrama, I thought it must have been very interesting for him to have seen it and want to recommend it to me. Even though I don't choose to see thriller drama on my own, I love to take good recommendations, it's how I got to see series like "Red Swan" and "Trigger".
"Trigger" is a short thriller series of 10 episodes, released in 2025 starring Kim Young-kwang and Kim Nam-gil as main leads, one is a cop who was once in a military working as a sniper and the other is cunning gun dealer with a carefree cancer patient disguise. Both meets in a gun-free country that's slowly getting flooded with guns.
The thrilling story goes like... A cop during a case regarding real guns and bullets, meets a carefree man who has a pathetic story of cancer and wanting to die by a gun. At first, both somehow became friends and work on more cases together but as a smart cop, he slowly learns that his new friend is actually the one giving out these free guns to mistreated and desperate civilians.
It's my first seeing Kim Nam-gil who starred as the cop, in a series. He may have worked as a military man in the past and killed so many but his keen interest in the people he has helped and how calculative he is, was quite addictive to see.
I've seen Kim Young-kwang in a few other series but I didn't think I needed one where he's a villain with an unnerving presence. I knew from beginning that he was the monster himself but I couldn't find any proof until he showed it.
Somehow, I would have appreciated more of their duo before he revealed himself as the villain of the story but I also enjoyed how things turned out when they go head on, one to stop the guns from being circulated and another making sure every civilian gets a gun. I think they do have a perfect presence for the roles they played in the story.
The side characters were quite surprising, especially the first civilian revealed to own a gun and fired at so many in the Gisowon he lives in. A psychologically ill student who feels he's always being ignored but got all the attention after his first trigger. His facial expressions and confidence with a gun in hand were quite a view.
The series actually gave me a scare as I thought of how a society in the real world will become if guns were circulated so freely around, even college students got loaded guns, causing chaos in school premises. Every side character has a back story with each one having their own ending, it's rare to find this in short time series.
As much as I don't support the thought and reasons the villain gave to flood the country with guns, I must say he did a good job in showing that he's sick with a terminal illness (cancer) while he was actively working to make his dream come true. His end wasn't satisfying but it was indeed a good thriller series. I'll rate it 9.5/10.
So tell me, will you see this thriller? I recommend.
Images are from Imdb.
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The truth is that what you've said makes the series very tempting, especially when you say that the villain does an excellent job of pretending to be a good person. These types of performances are what show us the quality of the actors.
Yeah, I couldn't bring myself to hate the villain as it's supposed to be. I think he's a great actor.