English police shows are often excellent with their own brand of mystery and tension, but Trigger Point pulls up short, we get the tense life of bomb disposal people in the first 10 minutes, then that's it. Vicky Mclure's acting ability or lack of it is painfully exposed in several scenes, or perhaps she had bad direction, her 'serious' look is it, she has nothing else.
One thing this show does is show you how good the writing is in Line of Duty, but in this show you could write the plot in 2 or 3 minutes.
At each 'surprise' bomb explosion I predicted exactly what was going to happen, some of the police in this series are pretty thick, in the first episode smack bang in the middle of the flats they have blocked off is a van full of bombs, but no one looks until it's too late ? Silly, anyone would ask have you looked in that van ?
One thing this show does is show you how good the writing is in Line of Duty, but in this show you could write the plot in 2 or 3 minutes.
At each 'surprise' bomb explosion I predicted exactly what was going to happen, some of the police in this series are pretty thick, in the first episode smack bang in the middle of the flats they have blocked off is a van full of bombs, but no one looks until it's too late ? Silly, anyone would ask have you looked in that van ?