I always thought the reason they made the courtroom scenes preliminary hearings was so they wouldn’t need 12 extras for a jury.
One other thing that bothered me (even though it was a McGuffin) was the idea in season 2 of McCutcheon building a major league ballpark and then not being able to get a team to move to LA. Major League Baseball on the west coast was inconceivable until air travel became common after WWII. And I understand they wanted to work in the Chavez Ravine evictions, but nobody was going to build a stadium before they had a team. On Sun, Jun 25, 2023 at 12:10 PM PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > 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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