PERRY MASON
Type: noir
Director: Ron Fitzgerald and Rolin Jones. With Matthew Rhys, Juliet Rylance, Chris Chalk, Shea Whigham, Eric Lange, Diarra Kilpatrick, Molly Eprahim. On Sky Atlantic and Now
Matthew Rhys and Juliet Rylance in “Perry Mason”.
One of the best conceived and devised prequels of recent US seriality returns with the second season; the protagonist needs no introduction, the most famous lawyer on the small screen, here however captured in a sort of previous life, a detective in America in the 1930s.
The Perry Mason of this series is very different from the one played by Raymond Burr; the slender figure of Matthew Rhys returns a fragile, distrustful character who seems to have gradually lost that unshakable faith in justice (“it’s just an illusion”).
Again, six months after the setting of the first season (released three years ago), we see him grappling with a case, a crime of which two people from the lower strata of society are accused.
Matthew Rhys and Juliet Rylance in “Perry Mason”.
Perry Mason is a noir-tinged procedural that depicts the contradictions of post-Great Depression America, emphasizing aspects of the social inequalities of the time. Around the protagonist revolve other fundamental figures such as Della Street played by Juliet Rylance; the character writing work is well curated and established.
For those who love the contradictory atmospheres of 1930s America and its detective stories.
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