NR | 6 episodes | Streaming Series | Thriller | Jan. 23, 2022
In movies and TV shows, bomb squad cops fight the closest thing to real-life super-villains. They scramble to disarm elaborate Rube Goldberg-like deathtraps, constructed with tripwires, secondary triggers, and various decoy elements.
Yet, supposedly, there is a safe resolution, as long as the explosive expert cuts the right wires. That is the job of London Explosive Officer (EXPO) Lana Washington, who must disarm the increasingly destructive explosive devices created by a mysterious mad bomber in writer-creator Daniel Brierley’s six-episode “Trigger Point” (co-produced by prolific British TV writer Jed Mercurio).
Vicki McClure as London Explosive Officer (EXPO) Lana Washington and Adrian Lester as her colleague Joel Nutkin in “Trigger Point.” (HTM Productions)
The first episode nearly spoils the rest of the series, because it is such a masterclass in tautly executed suspense. As “Trigger Point” opens, Washington and Joel Nutkin, her colleague on the London police force’s explosives squad and a fellow Afghanistan veteran, are responding to a call at a London Housing project….