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Summary: Greatest show that NBC never supported from day 1!!!!
Review: Boomtown is one of the best shows to hit TV in a while, right up there with "24" and "The Shield". Sadly, NBC never gave this show the type of publicity it deserved and now they've cancelled it. Let's just hope they have the common decency to at least put the first season out on dvd for the fans of good television to enjoy. This show is a hell of a lot better than "Third Watch" or that god-awful "Good Morning Miami", and NBC showed a lot more love to these series than the best show they've put on TV since "ER", and that shows really gone downhill!!!
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Summary: Boomtown - TV series
Review: Boomtown is one of the most original, intelligently-written shows I've seen in recent years. The cast is absolutely excellent. What in the world was NBC thinking when they cancelled the show? A network with more sense would have nurtured the award-winning show and allowed it time to develop stronger ratings. It would be a VERY SMALL step in the right direction for NBC to release a DVD of the BOOMTOWN television series. Please, PLEASE release the BOOMTOWN television series on DVD soon!!!
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Summary: One of the best cop shows that people didn't "get"
Review: Boomtown was unlike any cop drama out there. Boomtown was full of complex and orginal characters that remain constant through the shows run of 2 seasons. NBC viewers (most of them) didn't get the format so the people who loved Boomtown and wanted MORE of it had to suffer due to the Law and Order series which keeps dragging on and on. Boomtown was something special and still is to the people who fell in love with the stories and characters.
NBC was STUPID for letting go of this amazing show. This DVD should also add Season 2 even though it wasn't as orginal as the first it still deserves to be on this DVD! Boomtown will live on forever as one of the best cop shows out there! I really miss this show!!!
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Summary: Boomtown LIVES
Review: Finally a great drama to stay home from the bars to watch! Of course NBC had to go and cancel the best show on television:(
Hopefully if enough people sign in at the top, the studio will release the first season (along with the first couple of episodes from this season) on DVD. Keep supporting the show. Maybe another network will pick it up (I doubt it, but you never know)
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Summary: A Bitter-Sweet Discovery
Review: I had heard a great deal about Boomtown while it was on the air, but I have to admit that I never got around to watching it. Finding it on DVD was a bit bitter-sweet, because in this case the buzz and reviews were absolutely correct - this was one of the best shows of the past decade brought to premature demise by a short-sighted network. NBC's decline this season seems just punishment. Boomtown was everything that its network was not - bold, experimental, emotionally evocative and very smart. It wasn't perfect; if you look carefully there are continuity mistakes to be found and some suspension of disbelief required to buy some of the scenarios, but it was always powerful and compelling drama. One of the reasons that Boomtown's non-linear, somewhat schizophrenic format worked so well is that it actually brought the viewer deeply into each characters perspective. Rather than dealing with a generic police procedural we got careful character development and arcs that extended through the entire season. Each episode usually involved one main case seen from multiple points of view (made clear by chapter titles with the character's name) from main characters as well as criminals and victims. Frequently these points of view intersect, showing the same scene through different eyes, displaying different elements (using filtered colors for the intersections). By looking through their eyes we came to know these characters and by seeing them unfold and develop over tbe course of the season we came to care about them. My persona favorites were the conflicted DDA David McNorris and the surprizingly wise Detective Bobby "Fearless" Smith. David's decline throughout the season was particularly compelling, as self-loathing and alcoholism, caused this enourmously capable and idealistic man to spin out of control. Fearless had most of the best action in the series (in more ways than one), but never let it be gratuitous or stupid. So in short I can strongly recommend Boomtown to anyone who loves quality television. My only regret is that if it lasted it might have climbed to even greater heights.
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Summary: I Can't Believe NBC Cancelled This Show!
Review: I moved out of the US 2 1/2 years ago, so I completely missed this show when it was on TV. However, I purchased the DVD from Amazon.co.uk, and I think it is now one of my all-time favorite shows. This DVD contains 18 episodes (the first season?), in widescreen format. The cast is superb. Mykelti Williamson's "Fearless" is quirky and complex (he is probably best known for his role as Bubba in Forrest Gump). Neal McDonough is superb as the uptight, upright, yet slightly out-of-control ADA David McNorris. Jason Gedrick, Lana Parrilla, Nina Garbiras, Donnie Wahlberg, and Gary Basaraba round out an ensemble cast, painting rich portraits of people with stressful jobs and personal lives. The photography and "graphic look" of the show are innovative, and the "multiple perspective" aspect of the plot exposition is clever and eye-opening. There are surprising plot twists at every turn. There are some interesting guest appearances, as well. Patricia Wettig from Thirty-Something does a great job as a Patty Hearst-like former terrorist. It is a sad commentary on our American culture that shows like this do not succeed while tons of pathetic, identical sewage pour from the screen daily. If you have a multi-standard DVD player, go to amazon.co.uk and order this today. Unfortunately it is a Zone 2 DVD, so it will not play on most US DVD players. What is the deal in the US; why is this not released?
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Summary: NBC dropped the ball BIG TIME
Review: I'd say a lot more about NBC, but I don't wanna be sued for slander. Suffice it to say that the day they canceled this show after only two airings in the TV-graveyard of Friday nights, I promised to never watch any new NBC show again. This was one of the most well written dramas i have ever seen, with characters that really carried the series. It wasn't just a situation drama, the protagonists were flawed and human yet still larger than life. I am happy to see that it's coming out on DVD and I'm more than willing to pay up for it (and I don't usually buy TV shows on DVD). Hopefully DVD can do for "Boomtown" what it has done for "Family Guy"; resurrect it back for a new season in the future. If you wanna see good quality TV, watch this show. No one will ever remember "Lyon's Den" which killed it, or "Kingpin" which NBC tried to replace it with; but this show and NBC's shoddy treatment of it will be remembered as long as television exists.
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Summary: Boomtown
Review: I've never been in the habit of buying TV shows on DVD, mostly for the reason that there haven't been that many shows that I want to watch over and over. There's been a recent change in my philosphy. The first TV package I bought was the first season of THE SOPRANOS. The second was the first two seasons of HOMICIDE: LIFE ON THE STREET. I bought both of those used. The third one I bought (and the first I was willing to pay the new price for) was Season One of BOOMTOWN.
I first caught BOOMTOWN while it was still airing on NBC and I instantly fell in love with it. It was smartly written, had a stellar cast and used arguably the most innovative storytelling design ever thought up. When I heard that the plug had been pulled, I literally felt like going to NBC headquarters and demanding that answers be given to my face.
For whatever reason, it was evident that NBC did not want this show. I don't know if one of the actors made a remark about the mother of one of the network executives or if just wasn't pulling in the demographic that NBC wanted, but the writing on the wall came with season two's delayed start. The horrible truth became apparent once BOOMTOWN was moved from Sundays to Fridays (if you want a drama to lose any possible chance of viewership, just move it to Friday nights). For their part, the producers tried. They brought in Vanessa Williams in hopes that her name would save the sinking ship, but I'm sure the suits at NBC had already made up their minds. The ironic thing is that BOOMTOWN would fit in perfectly with the well-written dramas that all the studios are lusting over now (24, ALIAS, LOST).
I'm just grateful that I could buy the first season. NBC can never take that away from me.
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Summary: SOMEBODY OUTTA BOOM NBC'S TOWN
Review: Like a flash of lightning, this brilliant show was but briefly seen. Acting, production, story-telling, its all here in first-class form. I found 7 of the 18 episodes in this first season to be among the best TV (and entertainment, period) that I have ever seen. Highly recommended.
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Summary: Hey, guys, throw us a bone . . .
Review: NBC gave us four new episodes of "Boomtown" this weekend . . . c'mon, fellas, if you're not going to keep the series on TV, at least release the first season on DVD for us! One of the first truly intelligent and enjoyable series I've seen in a long time. First NBC instructs the writers to "dumb it down" for the audience, as they decided we're not bright enough to comprehend the first-season format. Then they opt to cancel it completely. Thanks for thinking for us, guys . . . . what would we do without you. ; )
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