Matthew Rhys plays the titular character in HBO's 'Perry Mason.' Read THR's review:
Quibbling over necessity is a trap I periodically fall into as a critic. Did Archie Andrews and Norman Bates and that guy fromNEED gritty reboots and origin stories? Depending on whom you ask, the answers seem to be: "Young viewers think so," "Actually yes" and "Heck no."After watching the eight-episode first season of HBO's new, I still can't deliver a clear verdict.
Set in Los Angeles in 1931, the show posits Perry Mason as a hard-drinking private investigator living on his family's dilapidated dairy farm in the San Fernando Valley. Haunted, but really for only one episode, by memories of his actions in the Great War, Perry performs shamus duties for defense attorney E.B. Jonathan .
Although he eventually begins to resemble the Perry Mason TV fans once loved, this Perry spends a long time as a quintessential hard-boiled gumshoe, tracing clues that almost inevitably put him in a position to be beaten senseless, only to keep going, bruised but emboldened by whiskey. My favorite character in the show might be Paul Drake , depicted as a Black cop realizing that the disrespect directed at his community outweighs the respect generated by his badge. But everything I liked there could have been better served by bringing Walter Mosley's Easy Rawlins to TV, rather than limiting exploration of racial dynamics to a C-storyline.
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