On Sun, Mar 24, 2019 at 7:26 PM PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > Not only are they shown on various dinner dates, clearly not work > related, but he is often protective and tender towards her, and touches her > arm or shoulder intimately. She hovers over him at the office, and fusses > over his sleep and eating. But they also make it clear that they are not in > each other’s private space unless he needs her there for work. I will have > to see if they ever show him on a date with anyone else (or her), but I > don’t recall it, and so far none in season 1. Drake is depicted as > something of a lady’s man. > > Of course the assumption is that Burr was gay, and Perry’s relationship > with Della approaches a mid-century Will and Grace vibe (if Grace somehow > worked for Will and had to be submissive to him, and Will had to be deeply > in the closet). >
William Hopper (Hedda's son) played Drake as a ladies man. In the later years of the series he got rather puffy and it came off really creepy when Drake talked about throwing himself at women. Homosexuality was a career killer in the years Perry Mason was on and the sponsors would have killed the show if there was as much as a wink about Burr and/or Perry Mason. It was easier to attribute a lack of sexual characteristics to a character than to find subtle ways to let the audience know the characters were having sex. Going back to one of your earlier points about the Rhys remake: in the dramas of the '50s, '60s, and going into the '70s there was a clear sense of right and wrong and while there may have been corrupt officials, the authorities represented the good guys. More recent dramas have conspiracies among the authorities to build a tension about who the protagonist can trust. I tuned out of the Hawaii Five-0 remake when it appeared in the pilot and I'm sure it will be part of the new Perry Mason framing as well. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
