I started watching the show from the beginning, and I must admit, it’s been added to the Ivy household of Must See TV.
What an interesting concept, telling a story from the different viewpoints of the characters. It’s taken a few shows to get everybody straight, and now I think they’re concentrating on the back stories of some of the characters. Last week it was the cop, Fearless, who was in Desert Storm, the week before that, the paramedic Teresa.
I think my favorite episode so far was the one where the guy killed his wife’s boyfriend…only, by the time you got to the end of the show and got all the viewpoints together, that wasn’t what happened.
And the episode with Patricia Wettig as a former hippie wanted for murder…boy, that was a twist at the end.
Shall I start a Boomtown appreciation thread after the next show, or will I only be talking to myself?
Those are both my favorites, too.
I also liked the Halloween episode with Jason Gedrick hanging on the back of the stoner’s car in the Scream mask.
I didn’t care for last week’s as much. It was too much like an action movie for me. When Fearless jumped off the motel roof, firing John Woo-style with two guns, taking out all the bad guys, and landed on the roof of the car, and slid off the car and walked away, I called foul. He should have rammed his spine right up through his skull with that move.
I like the same-scene-from-several-points-of-view that we saw in the pilot. They’ve drifted from that a bit, as they’ve tried to go into each character’s backstory.
I’d like to see more of that, the mutiple POVs on each scene.
I missed the hippy episode, but I’ve seen all the others. So far my favorite episode was the halloween one- the whole kidnapped EMT part was very intense. I’ve never seen Rashomon(which is generally hailed as the orginator of this technique of story-telling) but this show reminds me of another movie based on the “from another’s perspective” angle, Go which I rather liked and is what made me interested in watching Boomtown in the first place. It’s nothing like the movie, at least in tone, but it’s still interesting
The first (good) version of “Grapevine” did that too. With quicker cuts between viewpoints. I still miss that show. (The new version sucked.)
Anyway, I like it for the most part. I have a hard time taking Marky Mark’s brother seriously (and I am still seeing the actors instead of the characters from time to time), but overall good show. Better than The Practice has been in years.
I’ve seen a couple of episodes and plan on watching more. The handling of the POVs and the deft construction that jumps back and forwards in time allow for some nice ironies and narrative slights-of-hand that keep the audience on their toes. It’s still a show that’s more about plot than character so far, but there have been nice little moments that have allowed insights into the cast without having the subplot center around it.
