Boomtown could have been a great show if they had only stuck with their original storyline.
The first few episodes all continued in the same way: showing one character at a time. It followed that character's point of view all the way from before (or right as) the crime occurred to the very end when it was solved. They went through the point of view of each character this way, never returning to a previous character after their POV was finished. The end was almost always the suspect's POV, showing what actually happened and why. When written in this order sequence, the episodes almost always showed the viewers a surprising and unexpected truth of how and why the crime transpired. However, after about Episode 5 or 6 of the first season, they started changing their storyline to copy basically every other cop show out there, simply trying to increase the drama by throwing curves and shocking discoveries with multiples jumps back and forth between the same people (sometimes showing entire episodes with one person's POV and missing the entire point of why the show started off so well).
If you want to see the best episodes this show has to offer, watch the first 4 episodes of Season 1. Honestly, my favorite was the pilot. It was done so well and showed how so many people can assume a crime happened one way, but never truly know what happened and why unless you saw it from the POV of the actual people committing the crime.
Overall, not a bad show, but after a few episodes, no different than any other cop/crime show out there. It could have been a great show if they had stuck with their original plan. If someone were to take this idea now and keep it the way the writers originally started, I guarantee it would be a hit.
The first few episodes all continued in the same way: showing one character at a time. It followed that character's point of view all the way from before (or right as) the crime occurred to the very end when it was solved. They went through the point of view of each character this way, never returning to a previous character after their POV was finished. The end was almost always the suspect's POV, showing what actually happened and why. When written in this order sequence, the episodes almost always showed the viewers a surprising and unexpected truth of how and why the crime transpired. However, after about Episode 5 or 6 of the first season, they started changing their storyline to copy basically every other cop show out there, simply trying to increase the drama by throwing curves and shocking discoveries with multiples jumps back and forth between the same people (sometimes showing entire episodes with one person's POV and missing the entire point of why the show started off so well).
If you want to see the best episodes this show has to offer, watch the first 4 episodes of Season 1. Honestly, my favorite was the pilot. It was done so well and showed how so many people can assume a crime happened one way, but never truly know what happened and why unless you saw it from the POV of the actual people committing the crime.
Overall, not a bad show, but after a few episodes, no different than any other cop/crime show out there. It could have been a great show if they had stuck with their original plan. If someone were to take this idea now and keep it the way the writers originally started, I guarantee it would be a hit.