Season Two Of "Perry Mason" Just Started.

One review I read says he's actually a lawyer this year, instead of an investigator. That should improve it a lot.

I miss Barbara Hale.

The first season was unexpectedly amazing. HBO certainly threw as much money at this as possible the first time out and it shows in every painstaking period detail. John Lithgow was especially excellent, but this is Rhys’s show and he is spectacular. Excited for S2!

I love the sets, and Chris Chalk (Paul Drake) is very hot.

I didn't even recognize Sean Astin.

One of the JTP from "The Goldbergs" played the loser grocery store owner.

I'm glad they did the recap at the beginning since it's been a LOOOOONG time since Season 1.

Very nice production values, and good acting.

Sean Astin has really become one fat fuck. But it's great for character roles like this one.

But he still genuinely has charisma. He could really command the screen in his big speech in the grocery store about having no mercy.

[quote] Sean Astin has really become one fat fuck.

DETAILS PLEASE!

Despite the many problems and digressions of a too long first season, I loved it once Perry pulled himself together and put on a suit to win the case.

Looking forward to this. Assume it is just dropping week by week? Is it a different story every week, or one season-long mystery? I may wait and binge it when it all drops.

R9 Weekly.

r9, the show only drops one episode a week. The entire season will be the one big case: the trial for the men accused of murdering the millionaire's son tonight.

I like the diversity of the characters of the show even though that is such a huge change from not only Raymond Burr's show but also the Erle Stanley Gardner novels. It does seem unlikely a law office in 1932 would have a straight white man as the front, a lesbian legal assistant, a black legman, and a Chinese-American secretary, but even so it is possible, and it makes for a more interesting show (I'm fascinated so far by the material about Paul's and Clara's life in Watts, and Della's new flirtation with the woman in the powder room). I'll be curious if it's Mason's Hispanic mannish ex-girlfriend Lupe who through community ties brings him into contact with the Hispanic boys who will be accused of the murder.

Damn, Sean Astin really chunked out. Took me a while to recognize him

When Raymond Burr did Perry in color, lost its appeal. Won't watch this.

r14 There was only ONE "PM" episode in color. (With DL fave Victor Buono as a Fagin-like character.) It was a tryout to see how it would work if Perry got renewed for the following season, when CBS was (finally) going all color. But it never came to pass.

I wad surprised that the second season premiered because there hasn’t been any promotion anywhere. This usually means the network has already decided not to renew it. Given HBO’s new management under Zaslav it seems likely.

This is another elephant from Team Downey which is going to probably see Sweet Tooth cancelled after Season 2 as well.

I binged season one on Saturday and watched the Season 2 premiere last night. I am really enjoying it. Sounds odd - it is a different decade and different continent but season 2 reminded me a little bit of Foyle’s War.

I’d watch just for cutie pie Sean Astin. Big or not, I wanna throw him against a wall and make out with him.

^Look before you leap. Rudy is but a distant memory, unfortunately. I loved Anita’s line when Della called her on the phone: “I've given any number of cards to women in powder rooms.”

I cannot believe how Big Sean Astin has gotten 😔 It can't be good for his health 🤔 I think his mom Patty Duke would be upset about Sean weight gain

Hi - ok my fellow Dataloungers - HELP! My usual super powers of identifying actors in different roles is failing me now. WHO played the rich woman possible Lesbian who was hosting the fundraiser in Season 2 Episode 2 - she was dressed in silver and chatted with Della. She was SOOOO familiar! She wasn’t listed in IMDB. She was way too young to be Jane Alexander. She was too old to be Lady Edith from Downton Abbey …. Not pretty enough to be Patricia Clarkson. It is driving me crazy!

I found out myself - It was Hope Davis.^

R22 Hope is so good, like the perfect Wasp. She should work more.

Episode 2 was very strong, it’s going to be a good season, I think, without the digressions of the forst season.

Please control your enthusiasm.

Just finished watching the Burr Perry Mason series, start to finish, yesterday. It took a year.

Seeing the single color episode among the last Season 9 for the first time was fun. The main effect was everyone looked better, because the lighting and makeup of the series (except for Burr) was hateful, and the only noirish trait in what had become a "cozy" as much as "Murder She Wrote" was.

Matthew Rhys is one of my "will not watch" actors.

It's off to a strong start and more character driven than the tv show which was very predictable---the most obvious person breaks down in confession in the first few seasons. The most unlikely person does it in the nlater seasons.

R2: She's very much there. When people post "I misss ______". It's usually pathetic, as predictable as posts that include "woke".

R29 Why?

It's a good mystery now that the two brothers admitted to doing it. I am surprised where it has gone.

Hope Davis just doesn't seem very period to me in her performance--she seems too modern in the way she's playing her part. Otherwise I really like acting. I thought the scene between Drake and the guy whose face got ripped up last week was very good.

R27 I think he's a good actor, why don't you like him?

Maybe it’s just me but every ep this season has put me to sleep. I like the period details but the main mystery isn’t as captivating as last season’s. The best part of S1 was Tatiana Maslany’s character.

I was only able to make it through the first three episodes of season one. As much I love the way it looks and the performances— Rhys in particular, of course — it’s just soooooooo dull.

Maybe I should give it another try.

First season was excellent. Rhys is such a good actor. Wasn't aware there was a second season. Effectively, they sure didn't advertise this one much.

Sorry to bump. I was a big fan of the first season, I don’t know many episodes have aired as of this week, but I’ve fallen asleep during every one, and it’s the only show that does this to me. I don’t even go back & rewatch what I missed. The main mystery isn’t very compelling, but I really like the cast & the setting. With such little hype for this show, & seeing as it must be very expensive to make, I wouldn’t doubt that this will be its last season.

No publicity at all. And everyone seems to be missing a big character this season.

R32, My answer is for you to read the comments after yours! He is the driving force for the show's being "dull" and making viewers "sleepy."

R38 I liked the first season but cannot get into the second. Trying to update Mason to make most of the cast gay, a black guy as Paul, etc. While I salute the producers' political sensitivity, it takes you right out of the story. Anachronisms always do.

Most of the cast gay?

r40 You're thinking of the original series.

[quote] Trying to update Mason to make most of the cast gay,

Della Street and Hamilton Berger are gay in this revival, and Della is this season seeing a new girlfriend. but that's not "most of the cast." Stop pulling shit out of your ass.

For the first time since Season 2 started, I didn’t fall asleep during an episode! And it wasn’t even action-packed, it just held my interest more than the others have.

This is an old people's tv show. Nobody else is watching it.

It's slow and confusing. I was never psyched by season 1 and I stopped season 2 in the middle of the second episode. Done with it.

I enjoy it. I really like the actress who plays Della.

She was great in "The Knick." That was such an amazing show. Steven Soderbergh is hit and miss for me, but this was a success.

But not enough for Cinemax unfortunately.

Anyway, Perry Mason may not have another season but I'm going to continue to enjoy this one.

R42 the main characters are Perry, Della, Paul and Berger. Della and Berger are gay and now Paul's black.

Della recognizing a sister lesbian in the ladies' room of a restaurant - at noon - seemed rather contrived, didn't it.

They were cruising themselves table to table.

I meant *each other.

That was underwhelming. It’s interesting that they show that sometimes losing is winning. But there’s no way the DA would be satisfied without being told exactly how Mason got the gun, and Mason would be disbarred after he goes to jail.

The first Perry Mason was published 1933.. So let's take everything that made Mason a classic American character for nearly a century, toss it to the side, and improve its image like we did with Bud Light sorta Beer.

R51, if you think the books are unimprovable then just read the books. Sick of the Republican trolls complaining about diversity. Just watch Fox News all day and leave the rest of us alone. Only low IQ rednecks like Kid Rock are complaining about Bud Light. You must really miss the Confederacy.

Cancelled.

This show makes the original Raymond Burr show feel like Fast and Furious.