I was in the mood for action again, so I looked around for a show that could scratch my itch and I found one that did just that. It’s not the typical kind of action, there aren’t car chases or spy shenanigans, but there are explosions and tension galore. If you are looking for a show that will keep you fully engaged, on the edge of your seat and never once bored enough to look at your phone, Trigger Point on Peacock and BritBox is the show for you.
Trigger Point is a workplace drama that centers on Lana Washington, played by Vicky McClure. Lana is very good at her job, which is to diffuse bombs. Yes, this is like the movie the 
Hurt Locker, which won the Oscar for Best Picture back in 2008, except without war, the desert or all that testosterone.
Lana does have military training and background—she served in Afghanistan in the British military, so there is a Hurt Locker angle—so she certainly knows what she’s doing, but the bombs she is now faced with diffusing are set in and around London, not Bagdad, and that truly makes all the difference.
There are two seasons so far of Trigger Point (the first one can be seen on Peacock and Brit Box and the second just on Brit Box) and each season follows a single story of a bombing campaign in the city and Lana’s lead to track down who’s behind the effort to rain terror on the citizens. Meanwhile, she has personal drama of her own, with her romantic life a mess and her relationship with her family even more so, but all of that is really secondary to what Trigger Point is all about, which is tension, tension, tension. And that’s what we’re all here for, isn’t it? Let’s face it, if you’re not interested in the high drama of watching someone carefully, quietly try to diffuse a bomb that could literally blow them to smithereens at any second, you are most definitely in the wrong place.
Admittedly, I probably wouldn’t have been as interested if the show had a man at the center instead of a woman, but McClure does a great job making the story about the character and the tension of her profession and her experiences rather than her gender. Yes, it is great to see a woman as the lead in this type of show. And yes, that may be why you are interested in watching it at the beginning, but after about five minutes, that doesn’t matter anymore. All that matters is that McClure and the rest of the ensemble of actors, writers, directors and the whole team behind Trigger Point get you hooked from the get, wrapped up in the tension, on the edge of your seat, daring you to breathe.
Trigger Point’s first season can be seen on Peacock and BritBox, its second season is on BritBox. A third season has been confirmed.