Tom has hit on my main criticism, as someone who continues to work through, slowly, the original TV series. Perry Mason needs to have several cases, indeed I would have preferred the HBO version go with the case a week approach, perhaps integrated with an overall arc (most lawyers work in more than one case at a time after all).
Most of Perry’s TV cases never go to trial, one reason many of the common criticisms of him as a trial attorney are not really valid. He does do things that would not be allowed at trial, but often the judge says something like: “since this is a preliminary hearing and there is no jury, I’ll allow it.” This is how Perry is able to dazzle, and get a result over the short time frame of the episode. On Sun, 25 Jun 2023 at 8:23 AM Tom Wolper <[email protected]> wrote: > I had just started watching the series when this thread appeared and I > wanted to watch it all before commenting. The building of ‘30s era LA, the > costumes, and the music were all stunning. Taking one case over a season > made it drag through and I would have preferred two or three cases. > > To Kevin’s point of two of the four leads being gay, I thought that was > brilliant. Having a single gay character could feel like a stunt and it > would be hard to keep from marginalizing the character. Making both Della > and Hamilton gay gives a chance for some exposition during their > conversations without any sexual tension. The show’s creators tried to give > everyone an active sex life and that fell flat for me. > > On Wed, Jun 7, 2023 at 7:50 PM Paul Murray <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> The Case of the CEO Hunting $3B in Cost Savings >> >> On Wednesday, June 7, 2023 at 2:26:54 PM UTC-4 [email protected] wrote: >> >>> I loved everything about it. The actors were superb, the period >>> costumes, décor, and vehicles were complimented by outstanding >>> cinematography. And the musical score was outstanding! I’m so sad that we >>> don’t get any more. >>> >>> ~Marti >>> >>> On Wednesday, June 7, 2023 at 12:48:57 AM UTC-5 PGage wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> Disagree. I went back and started over with Season 1, then did Season >>>> 2, and liked both (2>1). Disappointed they are not continuing. >>>> >>>> I don’t think the number of gay characters was unrealistic. Yes, 2 of >>>> the 4 main characters being gay is a high percentage, but they are not >>>> drawn from the population at random, they know each other, and so we know >>>> them, because they are gay. Once one of them is gay, it is not shocking >>>> that someone else they know is also gay. Plus, as I have noted before, it >>>> is an homage to the fact that half of the actors in the 1960s TV show we’re >>>> gay, and also explains a lot about the relationship between Perry and >>>> Della. >>>> >>>> >>>> On Tue, 6 Jun 2023 at 5:40 PM Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> I would like for some streaming service to resurrect this as maybe a >>>>> trilogy of movies because it has a great cast, but as an episodic series >>>>> it >>>>> fell into bland minority stereotypes, and making an almost farcical >>>>> percentage of the central characters into closeted gays and lesbians felt >>>>> too contrived. 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