Perry Mason

Perry Mason S1E6 largely takes place in the courtroom. Perry bumbles and coughs as he gives his opening statement, and he continues to struggle as the trial proceeds when it comes to the norms and rules of the court. This is in pretty sharp contrast to how Mason is presented in the classic show where […] More

Perry Mason S1E5 begins with Della arriving at E.B.’s apartment and discovering his dead body. She calls Perry and they rearrange the scene to make it look like he died in bed, at least in part to make the death seem more insurance friendly. Much of the episode is taken up by questions having to […] More

Perry Mason S1E4 doesn’t really provide new information when it comes to the Dodson case so much as it involves Perry piecing clues together to learn things the audience already knew, or at least could have figured out. There was a fourth man at the Central Avenue apartment shooting and involved with the kidnapping. George […] More

Perry Mason S1E3 begins with Maynard Barnes (Stephen Root) putting correspondence between Emily Dodson (Gayle Rankin) and George Gannon (Aaron Stanford) on a board to display to the press. This scene is intercut with one of E.B., who is also talking to the press from the point of view of the defense. Things have ramped […] More

Perry Mason S1E2 doesn’t deepen the question of what happened to little Charlie Dodson so much as it complicates it, but since this is a TV show that amounts to pretty much the same thing. Matthew Dodson is arrested at church early on in the episode, and we learn that he is the bastard son […] More