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Perry Mason Official Trailer Proves He's The Only Person For This Job

Published Fri, 29 May 2020 13:11:14 -0500

by Ray Flook

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With less than a month to go before HBO and executive producer Robert Downey, Jr.'s Perry Mason premieres on June 21, viewers are being treated to the official trailer for the limited series. Written by showrunners Rolin Jones and Ron Fitzgerald and based on Erle Stanley Gardner's word, the limited series follows the origins of one of fiction's most legendary criminal defense lawyers, Perry Mason (Matthew Rhys, The Americans). While our previous looks have given us a sense of the series' tone, environment, and attitude, the following trailer does an excellent job of introducing the main storyline and supporting cast while also fleshing out more about Mason. Trust us, the way Rhys is able to convey a dozen different emotions without saying a word after seeing the victim in the morgue convinced us that we were right to be excited about this one (now where's Lovecraft Country?):

When the case of the decade breaks down his door, Mason's relentless pursuit of the truth will take him through a fractured city and quite possibly down a pathway towards redemption for himself. Set in 1932 Los Angeles, the city finds itself booming like never before even as the rest of the country recovers from the Great Depression. Oil, the Olympic Games, the advent of talking pictures, evangelical fervor, and a child kidnapping that goes horrifically wrong all make for a deadly mix.

Based on Erle Stanley Gardner's word, HBO's Perry Mason also stars Tatiana Maslany, John Lithgow, Chris Chalk, Shea Whigham, Nate Corddry, Veronica Falcon, Jefferson Mays, Gayle Rankin, and Lili Taylor. Tim Van Patten (Boardwalk Empire, Game of Thrones) is set to direct, and executive produces alongside showrunners Rolin Jones and Ron Fitzgerald, Robert Downey, Jr., and Susan Downey as well as Team Downey's Amanda Burrell, and Joe Horaceck; with Rhys also on board as a producer on the project.

A Look at Who's Who in HBO's Perry Mason

Rhys' Mason finds himself at a time in his life when he is living check-to-check as a low-rent private investigator. Haunted by his wartime experiences in France, Mason suffers the effects of a broken marriage and a broken career. Maslany's Sister Alice is the leader of the Radiant Assembly of God, preaching three sermons a day to a hungry congregation and a radio audience that spans the country. Entertainer, politician, God's conduit to the City of Angels, Sister Alice wields great power when she speaks and plans to use it in ways only she can know. Lithgow's Elias Birchard "E.B." Jonathan is a personal attorney at the nadir of his career and a semi-regular employer of Mason. A mentor and father figure to Mason, E.B. is handed the kind of case he hasn't seen in years: a high-profile parallel investigation to the LAPD involving a case of child kidnapping. Chalk's Paul Drake is a beat cop, husband, and father with a knack for detective work, and also an outlier, with the added challenge of having to navigate an extremely race-conscious city and an oppressive police department.

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