Review: In one of summer’s best new shows, Perry Mason gets what he’s always lacked — a personality
From avid armchair detectives to Supreme Court justices, everyone loves Perry Mason, right? But what did we ever reallyabout the guy, other than he almost always won his cases? Gardner, who died in 1970, wasn’t inclined to give Perry much of a backstory — believing, perhaps, that too much personality interfered with the formula. Perry was forever right and could always dig up the evidence to prove his case at the last minute. He’s a classic character, with all the dimension of cardboard.
That’s why Rolin Jones and Ron Fitzgerald’s superb new “Perry Mason,” an eight-episode series premiering Sunday on HBO, is the perfect lesson in how to update an icon, honoring the character by giving him the emotional depth and complexity that he previously never had.Don’t get the wrong idea. The Perry Mason we meet in this version isn’t a pushover. As played by Matthew Rhys , this Perry is a day-drinking , underemployed private investigator who gets into plenty of unseemly scrapes.
Perry’s wife left him and took their young son with her. He clings to what’s left of his deceased parents’ defunct dairy farm on the outskirts of a rapidly expanding — and always corrupt — Los Angeles. He’s also suppressing some pretty intense trauma from his time on the French battlefields in World War I.
The series opens right after Christmas 1931, with the gruesome death of “Baby Charlie” Dodson, who was kidnapped for ransom. The baby’s grieving parents, Matthew and Emily Dodson , have tenuous ties to a popular church headed by a dynamic radio evangelist named Sister Alice McKeegan , and it isn’t long before the cops and a prosecuting attorney are determined to pin blame for the baby’s murder on the parents, who then turn on each other.
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