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KATHRYN FLETT'S My TV Week: Bombs Away! But can Lana defuse her love life?
UK writer Kathryn Flett reviews ITV1's Trigger Point and Putin Vs The West: At War on BBC2.
I’m going to stick my neck out, critically speaking, and say that Trigger Point – back for a second series – is not merely TV’s most explode-y show but also the only one with a final credit that reads ‘Expo bomb suit provided by NA Aerospace’. The wearer of this suit is Lana Washington (Vicky McClure), who sounds as if she should be working her way through the Great American Songbook at Ronnie Scott’s but is, in fact, a very deadpan Army veteran-turned-police bomb disposal officer (aka an expo). With glamorous leads, beautiful British locations and twisty-turny thrills, the Harlan Coben adaptation (by Danny Brocklehurst: Brassic, Ten Pound Poms) offered perfect winter escapism.
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