Perry Mason in the new HBO reboot of the legal drama based on Erle Stanley Gardner's detective stories."To my mind, he makes a good private investigator because he doesn't fit in in any way," Rhys says.Perry Mason"Why would you? How can you?" says Rhys, who stars in the new HBO show.from the 1960s. He's not a sharply creased L.A. defense lawyer, with a voice that booms in wood-paneled courtrooms.The series is based on Erle Stanley Gardner's detective stories.
The way they set Mason within that — that he was this kind of leftover of a pioneer family that's inherited this land with this encroaching monster of modernity that is the new L.A. — and he doesn't quite fit in in a number of respects.The American hard-boiled [detective] — especially 1930s private eye — is something so exotic to me that I felt there was a number of times when I was flicking a cigarette or, you know, adjusting my fedora and trying not impersonate Humphrey Bogart.
The only thing that this show has in common with Perry Mason is the name of the main character.
This is simply brilliant television. Times are tough, but this is one expense I'll shoulder as long as possible.
Watched it last night , not sure yet. I’ll give it another episode, touch much swearing.
My review? It may have succeeded with another name and character. But, it is nothing at all like Perry Mason. As a stand alone series, after watching episode one, I'm not compelled to watch any more. It's a no for me. Fail.
this was soooo good !
I watched the first episode and I enjoyed it. I’m in !!
I've been a big fan of Raymond Burr's Perry Mason. He was a brilliant & well to do lawyer. This new HBO version should really be a relaunch of one of the great gum shoes like Mike Hammer, Sam Spade or Philip Marlowe.
This is just horrible. I loved Perry Mason the TV show back in the '60s because he fought aggressively for the truth in the courtroom. This is a gross, historically inaccurate, boring episode. This kind of TV is dead. Get a grip HBO MAX.
What about the disparaging references to Black people in the first episode and not a Black character in sight. Why is this okay? HBO
I was hoping for a young Perry Mason with big, deep, piercing eyes, just out of law school, struggling to build law firm with Della Street. This shit I watched was not at all what I had in mind. Not sure why it's even called Perry Mason. Should've called it Baby Scarface. Geesh!
twitweeting Remake of Heaven's F'en Gate is what we need.
Total Crap !
Its awful gratuitous uninteresting crap
Rarely does the first show in a series pull me in and the few that do are the great ones. Bravo!
MatthewRhys Speaking as a grandad who watched many of the original shows back then (I was a child at the time!), I was expecting something different tonight - and it certainly was. Hooked by the end, though. Yn arbennig o dda, Matthew.
It feels like Boardwalk Empire. It has that look & feel to it. Excellent
Okay, so while the beginning was really rough, it allows the world a glimpse of a world yet to experience cancel culture and all the accompanying fake woke b.s. If this is an example of toxic masculinity, I'll take it, with an order of greasy French fries on the side.
It’s porn.
Checked out the cast. Pass. Another whitewash of a tv show.
Just watched it garbage
MatthewRhys I'm not mad at you, Matthew. I'm disappointed.
I have no problem with the show being set in the 30s. Erle Stanley Gardner started writing the books in 1933. But this slovenly low-rent private eye is not Perry Mason. Why buy the rights to Perry Mason and then change everything about him?
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Matthew’s work on The Americans has me very optimistic about his new role.
Everyone calling it a re-make literally didn't read the article. Two paragraphs in, the writer explains it is based on the original novels, where-in Mason is a P.I.
The old TV show is nothing like the books. Sounds like the new show isn't much like either. It's OK.
Perry Mason was pretty dark to begin with. As well as funny. Who calls the secretary 'Della Street' and the prosecutor 'Ham Burger'?
What’s the over/under on the appearance of Rhys’ Australian accent in each episode?
Smelling bomb!
More remakes Ugh
Perry Mason was a lawyer, not a private eye. This seems to have nothing in common with the original series other than the name, the time period, and that the law is somehow involved. Why bother calling it Perry Mason?
Wow this is going to be terrible
Ugh, another remake. No one can fill the shoes of my boo Raymond Burr.
Will they all be wearing mask's?
Grandfather? Really?
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