Based on the profile of Rhys in Sunday's NY Times, it looks like it's an origin story: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/27/arts/television/matthew-rhys-perry-mason.html?searchResultPosition=1
I fully expect that in the final episode, Mason will be sitting in a dark study, opining that criminals are a cowardly, superstitious lot just before Professor Kingsfield flies through the window. --Dave Sikula On Monday, June 1, 2020 at 7:12:39 AM UTC-7, Tom Wolper wrote: > > On Sat, May 30, 2020 at 3:41 AM 'Dave Sikula' via TVorNotTV < > [email protected] <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Well, now that the *official* official trailer is out, I can say it >> somehow looks even more dismal. >> >> Take away the character's name, and there's nothing in it to separate >> this low-rent dick from a couple of dozen other Marlowe wannabes. I'll >> watch it because (despite the best attempts of *Penny Dreadful: City of >> Angels* to kill the genre with its heaping gobs of rancid stupidity, >> gimcrack mysticism, and a lead actress with the range of a fire hydrant) >> I'm still a sucker for pre-War LA crime stories. >> >> YMMV >> >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNATvJMPZaA >> > > Mason is a detective in this according to the trailer. Which means it will > have only the name and possibly the theme music from legacy Perry Mason. So > I can ignore it blissfully. The only shame is I watched Anatomy of a Murder > a few days ago and it shows how compelling a courtroom drama could be right > now. > -- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/0c0bee9d-cc5c-4ae9-b45c-fe3ed2922a8e%40googlegroups.com.
