SnoopyStyle
It's the hard world of L.A. crime. David McNorris (Neal McDonough) is a righteous A.D.A. married to Marian (Kelly Rowan) but cheating with reporter Andrea Little (Nina Garbiras). Detective Joel Stevens (Donnie Wahlberg) is married to suicidal Kelly (Megan Ward) and is partnered with Bobby Smith (Mykelti Williamson). Officers Ray Hechler (Gary Basaraba) and Tom Turcotte (Jason Gedrick) are beat cops. Teresa Ortiz (Lana Parrilla) is a paramedic who later joins the police.The first season is an ambitious police procedural that depends on impressive writing from show creator Graham Yost. It shows the same crime from different POVs. It may have been too ambitious for network TV. It never received great ratings despite some critical praises. The later changes never really click and it's canceled after 2 seasons.
Scott Ellington
I missed the broadcast, serialized weekly television presentation and picked up Season 1 at the suggestion of a friend. I think the program was intended to present a city's infrastructure powered by imperfect people employed in occupations that make impossible demands upon their personal lives. I think we were given a unique cops & lawyers show as a wonderful compromise between what was intended and that which network would allow. Unlike Paris, London and Vienna, Los Angeles, though similarly sired by a great river, now has "a concrete drainage ditch" where that great river once was. Likewise, the multiplicity of central characters are revealed in the course of Season 1 to be significantly different from the persons they appeared to be at the beginning of the series. Their imperfections and the enormous burdens borne by each open slowly through the course of eighteen episodes into a fragrant blossom of great power that smells of intense humanity and the brilliant collaboration of writers, directors and more conventionally "technical" artists of every description. I return to Boomtown frequently, simply because its significantly better than broadcast, serialized, weekly television presentations, and it probably always will be.
tararau
I'm watching the first series of Boomtown on DVD, how is it I had never even heard of this show? It's totally brilliant. It is located in Los Angeles and we really are in Los Angeles. We are in Griffith Park for real. It's dramatic,poetic and has some very funny moments. I did laugh out loud. Good timing and uniformly great performances. From the title sequence that references Los Angeles birth in the desert, police brutality, race riots, Bobby Kennedy...The characters live in the present but they walk out of that past. The stories are interesting and surprising. Oh, it's all good stuff. This is a must see. Too bad there's only the first season from what I read. Sad, talent isn't always rewarded apparently. I would love to see more.
Jillicus55
I thought this series excellent, thought-provoking, well written, and easily comparable to The Shield, which series we are still enjoying. I have tried, in vain, to locate Series 2 - what happened to McNorris ? My whole family, from age 15 (son) to age 75 (mother) enjoyed these episodes and we were all disappointed to find that only a further six were made. Is there any way we in England can access these? I have tried NBC, to no avail. All they seem to want is approval on the series currently showing. Has anyone out there seen these extra six or so episodes? If so, please let us know what happens!!! No-one tells us anything over here! Grateful thanks,Jill Coughlan & Family