{"id":9427,"date":"2020-06-17T01:20:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T22:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/new-perry-mason-does-a-complete-180-from-old-tv-series\/"},"modified":"2020-06-17T01:20:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T22:20:00","slug":"new-perry-mason-does-a-complete-180-from-old-tv-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/new-perry-mason-does-a-complete-180-from-old-tv-series\/","title":{"rendered":"#New \u2018Perry Mason\u2019 does a complete 180 from old TV series"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#New \u2018Perry Mason\u2019 does a complete 180 from old TV series<\/a><\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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June 16, 2020 |<\/span> 6:20pm <\/p>\n

\n HBO\u2019s \u201cPerry Mason\u201d shares a title with its TV series predecessor \u2014 and that\u2019s where all similarities end.<\/p>\n

This new eight-episode drama, with Matthew Rhys in the title role, deviates sharply from the CBS series (1957-66) starring Raymond Burr as the brilliant, no-nonsense Eisenhower-era LA defense attorney who, with his penetrating stare and rising-crescendo cross-examinations, coerced on-the-stand confessions from the \u201creal killers\u201d in virtually every episode, much to the chagrin of DA Hamilton Burger (William Talman). Perry\u2019s inner circle consisted of two people: his loyal secretary, Della Street (Barbara Hale) and wolfish private-eye pal Paul Drake (William Hopper). Viewers knew nothing about Perry\u2019s past and even less about his private life, save for a few scenes in his apartment early in the series\u2019 run.<\/p>\n

That all changes with HBO\u2019s \u201cPerry Mason,\u201d premiering June 21 at 9 p.m. with co-stars Juliet Rylance, John Lithgow, Tatiana Maslany (\u201cOrphan Black\u201d), Robert Patrick and Stephen Root. This version hews more closely, at least chronologically, to Erle Stanley Gardner\u2019s \u201930s-era \u201cPerry Mason\u201d books and is set in 1932 LA. When we first meet Perry he\u2019s an unshaven, unkempt, private detective in a stained, ratty suit who drops F-bombs while eking out a living spying on errant movie stars (echoes of scandal-scarred Fatty Arbuckle) and cheating husbands, etc. with his sometimes partner, Pete (Shea Whigham).<\/p>\n

\u201cYou get no pleasure out of life,\u201d Pete tells Perry, who fires off an occasional wisecrack to ease the tension.<\/p>\n

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Barbara Hale and Raymond Burr.<\/span>Everett Collection \/ Everett Col<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Haunted by his wartime experience in France \u2014 and by his broken marriage, which produced a son \u2014 Perry lives on his family\u2019s rundown dairy farm,\u00a0 where he takes occasional solace in the arms of Lupe (Veronica Falcon), a pilot who works at the adjacent airstrip<\/a>. He\u2019s not averse to hitting the bottle or flouting the rules, at least when it comes to his investigative work. He may seem morally ambiguous at times, but he\u2019s a decent man who\u2019s fighting his inner demons and trying to make sense of it all.<\/p>\n

The series narrative is (literally) spun on a thread when Perry\u2019s sometimes employer, attorney EB Jonathan (Lithgow) \u2014 who relies heavily on his secretary Della Street (Rylance) \u2014 draws him into a sensational child murder case, a ransom kidnapp<\/a>ing gone horribly awry leaving a dead infant and two distraught parents. As the case unwinds, we see its tentacles reach into all corners of LA society \u2014 including politicians, a megachurch run by radio evangelist Sister Alice (Maslany) and the city\u2019s sketchy, vice-ridden police department with an honest cop, Paul Drake (Chris Chalk) who knows something is awry.<\/p>\n

Rhys, who won an Emmy as torn Russian spy Philip Jennings in \u201cThe Americans\u201d \u2014 by turns doting father and calculating, cold-blooded killer \u2014 mines similar emotional territory as Perry. He never turns into a caricature of the angst-ridden dime-novel detective and projects a hard-bitten subtlety and dour demeanor that blends well with the tone and feel of 1930s LA \u2014 caught here in all its off-putting seediness and Hollywood glamour. The writing and directing is top-notch with nary a dull moment, the supporting cast is strong without exception and viewers will be intrigued \u2014 both by \u201cPerry Mason\u2019s\u201d colorful cast of characters and by the murder mystery that will re-shape Perry\u2019s life and career.\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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