HBO and Star Matthew Rhys Aim to Raise the Bar for Period Reboot ‘Perry Mason’ by Touching on Modern Themes

(This article contains spoilers for HBO’s “Perry Mason” through the episode that aired July 5)“Perry Mason” is a slow-burning noir thriller of the sort that HBO is so fond of, and the first two episodes kinda eased us into this mystery about a baby that was kidnapped for ransom and ended up murdered.

On HBO’s new miniseries Perry Mason,wildly contrasting aspects of 1930s Los Angeles are spotlighted by differences in costume. “With the Great Depression happening and also with the movie industry happening, there was this strange juxtaposition in the city,” says Emma Potter, costume designer of the series, which stars Matthew Rhys as the famed private investigator.

's two seasons, viewers have gotten to know the Roy family inside out. They've seen Kendall (Jeremy Strong), Shiv (Sarah Snook) and Roman (Kieran Culkin) ruthlessly vie for the top spot at patriarch Logan's (Brian Cox) entertainment company, with eldest Roy son Connor (Alan Ruck) blissfully doing his own thing on the sidelines.

the coronavirus pandemic… not good!"[He's] probably fighting for his life in an apartment in Moscow as we speak," he told the latest issue of emmy magazine, which debuts on June 30.

Perry Mason is an iconic figure of US television, a defence lawyer in 1930s Los Angeles who specialises in saving the falsely accused. I asked an American friend what he signified.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVThe new Perry Mason limited series launched Sunday night with a 1.7 total viewers, marking the strongest debut night of any series on HBO in nearly two years.

Also Read: Malcolm Gladwell's 'Outliers' Anthology Series in Development at HBO Max, Dr. Fauci Set as First SubjectThis “Perry Mason” stars Matthew Rhys as Perry Mason, a low-rent private investigator who is living check-to-check and is haunted by his wartime experiences in France and suffering the effects of a broken marriage; John Lithgow as Elias Birchard “E.B.” Jonathan, a struggling attorney and a semi-regular employer of Mason; Juliet Rylance as Della Street, E.B.

Also Read: Malcolm Gladwell's 'Outliers' Anthology Series in Development at HBO Max, Dr. Fauci Set as First SubjectThis “Perry Mason” stars Matthew Rhys as Perry Mason, a low-rent private investigator who is living check-to-check and is haunted by his wartime experiences in France and suffering the effects of a broken marriage; John Lithgow as Elias Birchard “E.B.” Jonathan, a struggling attorney and a semi-regular employer of Mason; Juliet Rylance as Della Street, E.B.

Will Thorne Staff WriterIt doesn’t take a wily detective to work out that “Perry Mason” premiered to strong numbers for HBO on Sunday night.The reboot of the classic series was watched by a total of 1.7 million viewers across all platforms, which represents the network’s strongest debut for any series in almost two years. For comparison, the season debut of “Watchmen” drew 1.5 million viewers, and the first episode of “The Outsider” delivered 1.2 million viewers.

Perry Mason‘s eponymous private eye was first pegged for Robert Downey Jr., but eventually Matthew Rhys (The Americans) landed the role in HBO’s new reboot of the classic TV sleuth. A step down in terms of star power, yes, but the Welshman fits Perry’s grubby aesthetic perfectly.

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Robert Downey Jr. and his wife, Susan Downey, among others, the pair is excited to bring the 1957 drama back to the screen.While fans get to meet a new Mason, Susan revealed to ET that her husband did consider playing the titular character, but the timing was off.«He did think about it but the timing wasn't going to work out for an eight-episode commitment.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticThrumming in the background of HBO’s many triumphs in the past five years has been the cabler’s desire to continue the particular, pitch-dark success of “True Detective.” First came two more seasons of the Nic Pizzolatto anthology, ones that with varying degrees of artistic achievement both managed to continue that show’s general vibe of anguished toil, its sense that cracking a case does little to heal the broken soul of the world.

There are several reasons why HBO‘s gorgeously well-made, expansively imagined and deeply immersive new “Perry Mason” has critics casting around for synonyms of “timely.” Its twisted tale of gruesome and occasionally graphic baby-murder (the show’s dead-body modelmakers deserve some sort of award for grotesque, gross-out detail) touches on institutional corruption and police brutality, on racism and religious hypocrisy, on the exploitation of the marginalized, the stigmatization of homosexuality

Tatiana Maslany is returning to television in a big way, part of the cast of HBO’s upcoming reboot of “Perry Mason”.

HBO show of the same name (premiering Sunday at 9 p.m.), where he’s played by the “Americans” star Matthew Rhys.

HBO’s “Perry Mason” shares a title with its TV series predecessor — and that’s where all similarities end.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 “real killers” in virtually every episode, much to the chagrin of DA Hamilton