Netflix's South Korean Series 'Trigger' Is a Devastating Critique of America

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Netflix’s latest South Korean series, Trigger , comes from writer/director Kwon Oh-seung ( Midnight ) and stars Kim Nam-gil and Kim Young-kwang. The premise is deceptively simple: What happens when guns are introduced into a country that has essentially been gun-free? Where annual gun deaths can be counted on one hand?

The series plays out like a grim social experiment. Someone is anonymously shipping firearms - packaged like Amazon deliveries - to everyday South Koreans who are bullied, marginalized, unseen, or simply fed up. What happens when they’re handed the power to kill their tormentors? In most cases, they use it. A country virtually untouched by gun violence is sudde

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