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Flashpoint

Summary Flashpoint is an emotional journey following the lives of members of the SRU (Strategic Response Unit) as they solve hostage situations, bust gangs, and defuse bombs. They work by utilizing their training to get inside the heads of these people in order to make them reach their breaking point (aka their flashpoint). Sgt. Gregory Parke...

  • 2008
  • TV-14
  • CTV
  • 2008
  • TV-14
  • CTV

Flashpoint

5 Seasons
Season 1 Premiere: Jul 11, 2008
Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 30 Critic Reviews
50
User Score Universal Acclaim Based on 48 User Ratings
9.1
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Summary Flashpoint is an emotional journey following the lives of members of the SRU (Strategic Response Unit) as they solve hostage situations, bust gangs, and defuse bombs. They work by utilizing their training to get inside the heads of these people in order to make them reach their breaking point (aka their flashpoint). Sgt. Gregory Parke...

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Hugh Dillon

Constable Ed Lane

Amy Jo Johnson

Constable Jules Callaghan, Constable Julianna 'Jules' Callaghan

David Paetkau

Constable Sam Braddock

Sergio Di Zio

Constable Michelangelo 'Spike' Scarlatti

Enrico Colantoni

Sergeant Gregory 'Greg' Parker

Michael Cram

Constable Kevin 'Wordy' Wordsworth, Detective Kevin 'Wordy' Wordsworth

Tattiawna Jones

Constable Winnie Camden

Mark Taylor

Constable Lewis 'Lou' Young

Olunike Adeliyi

Constable Leah Kerns

Janaya Stephens

Sophie Lane

Clé Bennett

Constable Rafik 'Raf' Rousseau, Shane Thomas

Ruth Marshall

Dr. Amanda Luria

Tyler Stentiford

Clark Lane

Jessica Steen

Constable Donna Sabine

Bill MacDonald

Inspector Stainton

Jack Knight

Dean Parker

Pascale Hutton

Constable Kira Marlowe

Steve Boyle

Steve

Sonya Salomaa

Marina Levin

Philip Akin

Commander Norm Hollaran, Commander Norm Holleran

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 30 Critic Reviews
50
7% Positive
2 Reviews
93% Mixed
28 Reviews
0% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 30 Critic Reviews
50
7% Positive
2 Reviews
93% Mixed
28 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews

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63
Though the characters on this show, premiering Friday on CBS, are relatable and watchable, the slow pace might prove to be too much of a cultural divide for an American audience used to the quick cuts and immediate resolve seen on American cop shows.
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60
It has an appealing modesty that survives its bouts of aesthetic overexcitement--the occasionally lurching camera, hammering soundtrack, the sentimental pop song laid over the last couple of minutes as the principals silently end a long, hard day.
By Robert Lloyd FULL REVIEW
50
Flashpoint lingers when it ought to speed up. It is a show about crisis that refuses to make you anxious.
By Ginia Bellafante FULL REVIEW
50
It goes through the motions quite competently and respectably. But it is nonetheless merely re-creating crime-series moves we've all seen many times before, with only the faintest afterimage of originality.
By Matthew Gilbert FULL REVIEW
50
Flashpoint works through the distress and damage it lays out here, it gets points for beginning with the difficulty, not with the triumph. Now, if it can just figure a way beyond the scary perp clichés.
By Cynthia Fuchs FULL REVIEW
50
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.
By Barry Garron FULL REVIEW
40
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. These good guys are too good for their own good. And ours.
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User Score
Universal Acclaim Based on 48 User Ratings
9.1
92% Positive
44 Ratings
6% Mixed
3 Ratings
2% Negative
1 Rating

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User Score
Universal Acclaim Based on 48 User Ratings
9.1
92% Positive
44 Ratings
6% Mixed
3 Ratings
2% Negative
1 Rating

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Production Company:
  • Avamar Entertainment
  • Bell Broadcast and New Media Fund
  • Pink Sky Entertainment
Initial Release Date: Jul 11, 2008
Number of seasons: 5 Seasons
Rating: TV-14
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Awards

Gemini Awards
• 10 Wins & 51 Nominations
Directors Guild of Canada
• 4 Wins & 22 Nominations
Canadian Screen Awards, CA
• 8 Wins & 20 Nominations

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