‘Perry Mason’: TV Review

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV Critic“Brave New World,” a TV adaptation of the Aldous Huxley novel, takes place in a fictional universe in which pleasure and indolence are the paramount virtues; individuals in the upper echelon of society (served by those bred to be beneath them) spend their existences in a pursuit of leisure one might call single-minded if we suspected any of these poor creatures had much to call a mind at all.

(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.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV Critic“Expecting Amy,” a new docu-series on HBO Max, opens with its subject, the comedian Amy Schumer, weeping happy tears in a self-shot video. She’s trying to distract herself from the massive personal upheaval soon to be wrought by her pregnancy — or trying to compound her sudden joy — by doing something touristy and cute; she’s at the zoo.

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.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticNetflix’s new acquisition “Stateless” gets to its subject only circuitously. We meet Sofie (Yvonne Strahovski) as she’s running through the Australian desert trying to escape from something, then zoom back in time to see her as a polished flight attendant whose attempts at escape are somewhat less literal.

Katy Perry surprised fans by releasing a stunning acoustic version of “Daisies” Wednesday.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticThe newly released novel “Death in Her Hands,” by Ottessa Moshfegh, concerns a woman living just at the point where solitude becomes seclusion. Her imagination captured by a scrap of paper suggesting a recent murder, Moshfegh’s heroine grows to be consumed by this case, allowing it to rewire her brain, restructure her life, and shuffle to the fore buried memories.

You better work! Mason Disick, 10, effortlessly flowed to the beat while showing off his best dance moves on Sunday, June 21. He bopped along to “100 Racks” by Quality Control and Offset with mommy Kourtney Kardashian‘s pal Addison Rae, 19, in yet another viral dancing challenge inspired by the song’s title.

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.

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.