EPISODE
SEASON
Flashpoint - Season 1
The Canadian series Flashpoint follows the missions and trials of a fictional elite tactical unit, the Strategic Response Unit (SRU), within a Canadian metropolitan police force.
28 January 1974, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
20 December 1986, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
9 October 1964, Miramichi, New Brunswick, Canada
19 January 1934, Stratford, Ontario, Canada
22 September 1985, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
11 August 1979, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
9 July 1981, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
25 November 1977, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
11 September 1984, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
23 February 1978, Brampton, Ontario, Canada
17 February 1980, London, Ontario, Canada
July 11, 2008
"Flashpoint" lingers when it ought to speed up.
July 11, 2008
To be sure, Flashpoint is a perfectly competent police procedural right down to its convincing weaponry and tactics. However, based on the pilot, it isn't particularly fresh or inventive.
July 11, 2008
Too bad the writing isn't as on-target as Lane's high-powered automatic.
July 11, 2008
It's not terrible, not great, just sort of so-so.
July 11, 2008
As viewing experiences go, the series itself possesses so little flash, that it's difficult to see the point.
July 11, 2008
The "Flashpoint" pilot is competent, but very retro and fairly dull.
July 11, 2008
Flashpoint works through the distress and damage it lays out here. Now, if it can just figure a way beyond the scary perp cliches.
July 11, 2008
If it had something truly new or provocative to say about such matters, the essential redundancy of Flashpoint could be overlooked--but it doesn't, and so it can't.
July 11, 2008
It's more nuanced than the average cop drama, and for that reason, more intriguing.
July 11, 2008
It is nonetheless merely re-creating crime-series moves we've all seen many times before, with only the faintest afterimage of originality.
