HBO is bringing back Perry Mason!

Is Matthew Rhys also a mincing queen in real life?

Yeah sure he is. Just ask Keri Russell

HBO. I guess that means we should expect Della will be naked every episode.

Who will be Hamilton Burger?

I'm both excited and terrified about this. PM is one of my favorite shows, but I think they are going to completely reimagine this. Perry isn't even a lawyer in this one. He's a detective.

R5, PM me.

Whaaaaat? The whole point is that he's supposed to be a lawyer

[quote]Yeah sure he is. Just ask Keri Russell

Which reminds me, did anyone watch their joint interview in WWH with LaCohen? Matt got so into his former co-star Luke M. I wear there was a moment when she clearly doubts herself. Even Andy Cohen was a bit taken back.

I’m sure she must know something funny went on with those two.

If he’s not going to be a lawyer, why call him Perry Mason?

If you'd read the article, r9 and r7, you'd know it's his origin story, starting BEFORE he became a lawyer.

The downfall of HBO begins.

But Matthew Rhys is 44.

I don't see him as Mason, but I honestly can't envision any currently reasonably well-known actor in the role.

Will he be in a wheelchair? That might make it difficult for a PI to sneak around.

Why would he be in a wheelchair?

[quote] Why would he be in a wheelchair?

Tradition

You do realize Ironside is not Perry Mason?

He's no Monte Markham.

If you've ever seen the old PM movies from the '30s (mostly with Warren William as Perry), you'll know that PM was quite different in the beginning. As was Della. And Paul Drake was sometimes known as "Spudsy Drake."

I believe Perry was nicknamed Ironsides in reference to his wheelchair.

R11 I don't know what you're talking about, HBO has excellent programming.

Perry Mason was not in a wheelchair. Robert Ironside was. You are apparently confused because the same actor stared in both series.

That's right.

truyru

[quote]I believe Perry was nicknamed Ironsides in reference to his wheelchair.

You believe incorrectly, laughably incorrectly.

Bumpity

I'd rather they bring back Matlock

Good god he looks like shit in that pic! The fright wig hair and that scrappy beard - totally hideous. That’s one man who should not have a beard.

Why would Rhys want to be stuck in that gig for 6 years?

R19 Yes, Perry Mason was different in those movies, the daily radio soap opera, and the novels, than he was in the subsequent tv-series, but one thing that was always the same was that he was a lawyer, who always wins and is on the side of right. Making a Perry Mason where he is a detective and not a lawyer, would be like remaking Dr. Kildare with him being a paramedic, or Gunsmoke and focusing on Matt Dillion being a third string rookie deputy. Sometimes we don't need to see the origins, when the finished product is perfection. I like sausages but I don't want to watch them being made.

When is this going to air?

So in this one, Perry is a detective, haunted by his WWI experiences, newly emerged from a broken marriage.

No fank you.

The teaser trailer is out now. The show premieres on June 21.

He's not even the sad sack guy who played the DA who almost always was the loser.

Seems so dry.

No Park Avenue Beat?

#NotMyPerry

I was kind of worried about this, but the trailer does look good. I'm in.

I prefer Ray Burr

Thanks for pointing that out, R8. I just watched and I loved that, haha

Damn. Even those later TV movies where Raymond was...corpulent were da bomb. Male nudity, Perry knocking guns out of perps hands with his foldable cane...

Every lawyer always sites Aticus Finch as their hero. If I were in law, my hero would be Perry Mason. That dude always got a confession on the stand before the trial even ended.

During this whole shelter in place thing, I've been watching old episodes of Perry Mason. For some reason, going back to the middle of the 20th Century is very comforting to me right now. I know things were far from the 'simpler times' we rhapsodize about (the Cold War, polio, McCarthyism to name but a few) but I'm really enjoying escaping back to the era of tail fins, constant smoking, and femmes fatales.