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
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
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
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On Wednesday, June 7, 2023 at 2:26:54 PM UTC-4 martil...@gmail.com 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
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
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
