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Post by Colin Sibthorpe on Jun 23, 2020 1:14:56 GMT
Has nothing to do with the Perry Mason of novels and TV at all, they've just used the name for marketing purposes. If you can get past that - some find it very irritating indeed - you've got some hugely atmospheric, engrossing TV here. The biggest disappointment for me is that the episodes are not stand-alone, it's an ongoing storyline.
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Post by Flying Monkeys on Jun 23, 2020 8:38:18 GMT
Haven't seen the original, so that wouldn't be a concern for me. Lawyer, right?
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Post by Colin Sibthorpe on Jun 23, 2020 23:42:31 GMT
Not this time round - he's a drunken, unwashed, seedy PI and a blackmailer, too.
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Post by yggdrasil on Jun 25, 2020 9:19:04 GMT
Has nothing to do with the Perry Mason of novels and TV at all, they've just used the name for marketing purposes. If you can get past that - some find it very irritating indeed - you've got some hugely atmospheric, engrossing TV here. The biggest disappointment for me is that the episodes are not stand-alone, it's an ongoing storyline. Yeah, looks like they just bought the rights to the name to hang an already existing idea on. I am more a fan of the long format story than episodic ones as stand alones often feel rushed in having to tie everything up in an hour (44 mins US) Loved the look and the jazzy score though, the "baby scenes" were very well done as well, chilling. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 26, 2020 20:05:54 GMT
Too Welsh.
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Post by Colin Sibthorpe on Aug 11, 2020 0:55:25 GMT
Well he did finish the season as a lawyer. He got his client off, sort of. The bad guys got what was coming to them, sort of.
You could say everything was resolved, but it wasn't all tied up in a bow. The viewer was left to do much of the work himself and my reading was, 1931 was a very, very tough world indeed and you did what you had to do to get by.
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Post by politicidal1 on Jun 7, 2023 0:01:28 GMT
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Post by mikef6 on Jun 16, 2023 20:37:09 GMT
Well, it IS an origin story. Where he came from, how he became a lawyer, how he first met Della Street & Hamilton Berger, and defended his first case. Erle Stanley Gardner never touched any of this so had to be made up by other writers who started him in a place that would surprise fans of the books and 1950s TV series. I doubt there would be much conflict if he had been portrayed as the son of a wealthy family who could afford to send him to an elite law school.
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