‘Perry Mason’ review: The HBO legal drama starring Matthew Rhys is better in Season 2
The original “Perry Mason” TV series starring Raymond Burr premiered in 1957 and ran for nearly a decade. As courtroom dramas go, it’s an early classic that put a criminal defense attorney center stage. We haven’t seen much of that lately; cops and prosecutors predominate at the moment. So when HBO rebooted “Perry Mason” back in 2020 with Matthew Rhys (“The Americans”) in the title role, I was curious. Set in the early 1930s and focused on Perry Mason’s origin story, I found those eight episodes to be a hard-boiled slog with glimmers of potential. The
