There are two types of people in the world. Those who have never seen or heard the British police show “Line of Duty” and those who are enthusiastic about it. It’s not necessarily a great TV series, it’s not a very good series either. But it has a gloomy and breathtaking strength that is willing to inhale you, toy the emotions of its normal character, and question their motivations. It’s dramatically suspicious, but tuneously powerful. Throughout the six seasons, it remains one of the UK’s most popular and prestigious television shows.
Jed Mercurio, who created the “Line of Duty” in 2012, created a similarly batty “bodyguard”. The High Wire Blend is a high wire blend of bad cop history and romantic soap opera, and one season of 2018 was as big a hit as the Line of Duty. .. (Also, after appearing on Netflix in the United States, he was nominated for the best Emmy drama.) Previously, he was known as the creator of medical dramas, and perhaps his writing style clues. It is in his first career as a doctor. His first show was called “cardiac arrest”.
Mercurio did not create a new British series, “Trigger Point,” whose first season of six episodes came to Peacock on Friday. But he’s a showrunner, he developed it with its creator and writer Daniel Briary, and it has a Mercurio stamp: it makes your higher nerve function easier. Nuts in a compassionate and entertaining way that allows you to set aside.
If the “Line of Duty” maintains its moral side by featuring police interior forces, the “Trigger Point” is almost pure pressure by focusing on members of the London bomb squad. Become. The “Line of Duty” association is strong, but the intense (Natch), traumatic (naturally) protagonist of the “Trigger Point” is played by one of the stars of the previous show, Vicky McClure. Has been done.
McClure is not the most expressive performer. You tend to guess the character’s emotions by opening your eyes wide, but there are ways to show movement, voice, and gaze tension. Something is always catching her last nerve. This works well for Lana Washington, the heroine of the “trigger point”. In Lana Washington’s signature scene, she runs at full speed to where everyone else is evacuating.
In the first season of the show (the second season was ordered), Lana faces a series of explosions and near misses. From what we see, the London Police seem to be doing well with one bomb squad. The identity of the perpetrator is unknown. They are terrorists, but I don’t know which side of the fence they are sitting on.
The “Line of Duty” McClure character is part of a team of three. At “Trigger Point”, she has her colleague, but she has essentially only dramatic weight, and Briary shapes the action to her embarrassed solo perspective. Lana must not only fight the faceless bomber, but also the stupidity of those trying to save, caused by panic. The bomb and its targets have trigger points, and as Lana shouts to people to just stand still, we crouch one after another.
The “trigger point” carried by the UK commercial network ITV is slightly less crazy than the BBC’s “Line of Duty”. It may be partly related to the need for advertising breaks. But the jury trials of the story, the free-range delusions, and the negligence of plausibility benign are the same. (Viewers should also remember Mercurio’s tendency to kill key characters.) Sniper, gas mains, remedies, problematic sex are all drawn into the mix with frequent explosions. Will be a humorous and delicious showdown. Of course so, so it’s a dead switch.
That’s Mercurio’s way: the show keeps exploding on your face and you come back more.
