Newest on Perry Mason - so ready for this

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So the actor who played the former commie spy is going to be the very American Perry Mason. Somehow, I can't see him being Perry, but I'll give it a shot.

I've been watching that Epstein series Filthy Rich but fell asleep during it last night. I'll have to replay some of that episode from last night.

I'm binging Boardwalk Empire and I don't remember enjoying Soprano's as much as this. Great moments, great subtle humor, great deaths, great twists.

I was literally yelling "**** you! **** you! **** you!" when he killed Jimmy's wife and lover. I liked her a lot. ****!

Season 1 & season 2 of Boardwalk Empire are flat out masterpieces. (imo)

With references like these, looks like a Sunday binge watch. Beats Nascar

I just watched the scene where Nucky and his wife were having a quiet conversation alone soon after she returned. Then the music started for the next scene and it startled Nucky and he looked to his right looking for the source. I lost it. LMAO Had to rewind to make sure that's what I saw. Comedy genius. And I just love Capone's portrayal here. Lucky is great too but not as exciting as Capone. And young Steve Buscemi has his mannerisms down pat.



Edit: Finished it. The end was a surprise, but cliche.

I am almost done with season one of Lillyhammer. It is hilarious in my opinion. The way they portray the Norwegians reminds me of how they portrayed the locals in Fargo.

I keep waiting for Steven VanZant's wig to fall off. ROFL It has to be a wig, right?

Lilyhammer is a perfect blend of everything, I love it

Not sure how I missed Dark Side of the Ring, but its bringing back sorts of memories.

Gotham is really good. Redhead guy from Shameless is a great Joker. Other characters are great too.

Erin Richards is drop dead gorgeous. Yikes.

No spoilers please.

Gotham started to drag so I moved to The 100 (Netflix). It's got it all. Walking Dead, Lord of the Flies, Elyseum, BSG. Loving it so far (S1,E10)

I watched the 100 (it's actually from CW, not netflix) for maybe the first five seasons. It was really good, just stopped watching for some random reason.

One show that just ended that I lean towards a recommend, and one just starting that is very promising.

Never been so conflicted as with 'I Know This Much is True,' it is a very well acted and nuanced mini-series that is almost preternaturally ill-suited to the times. At times it verges on torture porn, and can leave you a little hollowed out. But overall it is so well acted and so well crafted that, if you think you have the constitution to do so, it is worth a close watch.

It's basically a story of how family, history, fate, etc. can trap us in our own self-destruction, and the things one has to come to terms with in order to continue on. That probably doesn't make it sound appealing, but perhaps better is to characterize it as a contemporary riff on the parable of Job.

The trailer below is decent, but it frames it as some wacky hijinks drama just about twin brothers, but it's wider and more expansive, and if you had to encapsulate it, it makes a realistic picture of the things that coalesce over a lifetime to foment resentment and despair, and how hard they can be to let go, and how important it is to let them go anyway.

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Less heavy in some ways, but looking to be more heavy in others, 'I May Destroy You' looks very promising. It looks to be a very different look at dealing with sexual assault, where the conclusions become clear but the roadway there is messy and confusing. I've only seen the first ep, but it's a different approach from anything I've seen before. Very subtle and nuanced, almost so you don't even register. Looking forward to seeing how it plays out, could fall apart, could triumph, we'll see. And the lead is very compelling in her own right.

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I just binged through the 6th season of Alone. It was added to Netflix recently. Just awesome for anyone that is an outdoors and/or survival enthusiast. Can't believe I had not heard to this series.

They put 10 people in the Canadian arctic, 75 miles south of the tree line. You can tap out at any time, also have no idea how many people are remaining. Last person wins $500k. Man, every single one of the people on that show have legit survival skills.

I have been a hiker/backpacker/mountaineering kind of guy for years and I wouldn't hold a candle to pretty much anyone that I watched on that show.

I have the final episode of the Netflix docus-series Lenox Hill left. The snippets of brain surgeries are very cool. I loved The Last Dance, and this has some similar themes of large personalities leading a team to success in their profession. And as exciting as TLD could get, Lenox Hill has these raw intimate looks at families in their most stressful, excruciating moments. Each episode has multiple scenes that are draining.

Who’s watched it? I enjoyed it. Rhys was really REALLY good.

There was more humor in it than I thought there would be. I’m definitely stealing “sitting there as a monument to useless.” ROFL

One nit to pick

I thought it was off to a great start, immersive in the milieu without being demonstrative or ostentatious. More of a lived-in world than a period being 'recreated.'

As for the humor, I legit laughed when Lupe, . . . ummm, . . . athletically negotiated Perry off the bed.

Rhys' face while assessing the . . . . evidence, in the morgue, sold the entire premise.

Agreed on all counts.

First couple sentences is a more articulate way of saying what I saw LOL.

I laughed at the Lupe bit too. The parts after too - bit about the tequila and sleeping in her bed. I'm not really sure how she fits into the story, but they spent too much time on her for it just to be ambiance.

Morgue scene was tough.



Good bit of filmmaking there.

Another thing I neglected to mention, because it was specific to my personal experience, but I just got through binging Bosch in quarantine.

So it was just a couple months ago I spent a whole season with Angel Flight [in modern day] as a central character.

Just started watching “I’ll Be Gone in the Dark” on HBO.

Scary shit.

Bring Hannibal back. How did I not discover this gem until recently. Season 2 finale was some of the best television I’ve ever watched.

[Harumph]

Ahh, drink some god damned water, would ya?!!?!

Netflix picked up The Last Kingdom for a fifth season!

It took me forever, but I'm finally at a crossroads on Bojack. Watched the first season way back when [^^look above^^, post from nearly 3 years ago], and worked through 2-5 during quarantine. Now I'm halfway through 6 and I'm torn. When I finish them, there's no more. But until I finish them I don't know how it ends.

Such a show, if anyone hasn't seen it, I can't imagine whom I wouldn't recommend it to. The animation lets it be jam-packed with references and jokes. The binge nature of Netflix lets it be both very serialized and still divert into one-off explorations. It's hopeful and despondent and humorous and dramatic and twisted and universal all at the same time.

For those unfamiliar, it's an animated show about a horse-person who starred in a 90s sitcom who is now nearing his 50s and dealing with everything the 'Hollywoo' [sic] lifestyle entails, the hedonism, the new-agey-ness, the substance abuse, the superficiality of friendships, the egoism, etc.

The first season is different tonally from the rest, but even though it's entertaining in it's own right, it's subtly setting up the narratives and stakes for everything to come.

This makes it, on a meta-level, very un-sitcom. The problems aren't solved by the end of an episode. Errors and faux pas are not forgotten or forgiven. Chickens [sometimes literally] come home to roost.

Check it out, you won't regret it.

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I loving this show, but I am struggling a bit with season 4. Feels like a drop in quality and a bit of an uptick in the wokeness. Also, the plotline blows. I hope 5 and 6 pick it back up.

Just binge watched all three seasons of Dark on netflix this week. Some mind-bending stuff. Great show

Keep watching. . . . ;)

Holy shit, from the it's been god tier TV. What an amazing show.

That feeling when;

That and

Wife and I stumbled across Dark about 2 weeks ago. We’re in the middle of season 2. We watch 2 episodes a night, but if it were just me I would’ve blown through the whole thing in 2-3 days. I love it, find it hard to “put down.”

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Not the cream of the crop, but quite good in its own right. Plus, not a lot new out there right now. Back in a couple weeks.

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I’m digging the revamped episodes of unsolved mysteries. That show used to scare the shit out of me as a kid. The episode that took place in LaCyne, KS really pissed me off.

Agreed, they've been nice filler for me during weeknights. I read where they've dropped all their evidence onto reddit for the internet sleuths to dive into.

Dude I already went down the reddit rabbit hole on unsolved mysteries. It’s interesting to see people point out things that I missed.

Yellowstone is great.

As soon as the truck came around the corner during that fight I turned to my wife and said "oh you know Rip's driving that thing and they're proper ****ed now..."

Rip's my favorite TV character of the last 5 years or so. It's almost easy to forget that he occasionally murders someone and throws their body into a gorge.

Watching INDY cars in Iowa

That look you get when it dawns on you that the Brahma bull with ALL the balls is right under your nose.

"you want coffee" - Yeeeeeearghhhhhh!!!!!!

There’s not going to be anymore tv shows.

Dang BL, just finished Episode 9 on Season 6 of Bojack. This might be their best season so far. So many feels.

Season 2 of The Umbrella Academy hits tomorrow.

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Was all in on Yellowstone. Season 2 was great. Season 3 is dragging now and too much SJW stuff for my liking.

Why do they ruin every show w/this stuff now?

Just binged the whole thing in one sitting after work. Really good season. I enjoyed season one a lot, thought season 2 took everything up a notch.

'The View From Halfway Down' got an Emmy nom.

Anybody watching this? I just got caught up. My god episode 6 was tremendous. Just really ****ing good TV.

great episode

Pretty much grew up on Perry Mason. Its my dads favorite show in the world and he still watches it on one of those TV Land type channels. I was a bit leery of it as a result but knew HBO would make it quality and it is. Look forward to it every week.

Every fella needs a Della.

Indeed sir.

My list of must watch tv series includes:
The Big Bang Theory
True Detective
The Umbrella Academy
The Last Dance
Ozark
Also I've recently found The Stranger in the kodi addons library. I've watched only three episodes, but I like it.

I hadn't been sold on Perry Mason until the last few episodes, but they've been terrific. The show is really hitting its stride. Can't wait for the finale next week.

So the finale was really goddamned good. I sat down there thinking, "OK, there is an hour left. I honestly have no ****ing clue what's going to happen."

The only minor quibble I have is,



But whatever I get it. And I'm not a up on my 1931 legal precedent. So I won't quibble too much.

The acting in this was just superb. Rhys absolutely destroyed every second of every scene he was in. Juliet Rylance (Della) also crushed it.

That's just incredible acting. Not production, not music, not cuts or editing, not dialogue or writing, just pure acting emotion. What could have been just a throwaway moment hit like a freight train and also made

really mean something and add depth.

Whigham (Strickland) really did a great job too. He didn't have a ton of play, but the episode working really relied on him expressing things right and he did a great job. I really loved watching him work in this series.

The ending wasn't what I was expecting but really goddamned worked for me.

Hopefully California opens back up and they roll out Season 2 timely.

I was really looking forward to the finale but I have to say, I was very disappointed with how the story was concluded.

It's common knowledge that Perry Mason only lost one case in his entire career during the original run and since that episode originally aired in the early 60's, I knew that they were "boxed in" and couldn't show a true loss.



I'm sure I'll watch Season 2 but it's not something I'm anticipating or excited about.

The best hope from Season 2 is that the overall story arc is better written and less predictable (outside the fact that Perry can't lose a case in this series).

I never watched any of the old Perry Mason iterations so maybe The expectations I had aren’t shared by many. I really came in fresh. I was excited because I’m a Rhys fanboy and am a sucker for 30s Hollywood (which it wasn’t).

Regarding Alice,



Regarding the two mothers



I’ll fully acknowledge that I’m the least creative dude in the room and other more creative dudes could come up with better endings but it was really good IMO. It would have probably been horrible with meh acting but the performances really sold it for me.

The other thing that really stuck with me was



I Dunno. Maybe I’m just a simpleton but it hooked me.

I watched Perry Mason all the time as a kid. Everyone I've spoken with that has also seen the original series were either disappointed with the new HBO series or just couldn't get into it because the original was completely different, especially the way he was portrayed by Matthew Rhys.

I was expecting something more along the lines of Bosch meets LA Confidential meets the Golden Age of Hollywood, but it's really difficult for me to reconcile this 8 episode version of Perry Mason vs. the original Perry Mason that I saw on more than 200 episodes of the original series.

Holy crap, I sound like an old fart. Yeesh.

What’s it like to walk around with half a ****ing brain? What ****ing fishwrap pays you?!...


. . . .


I’m fine, I just wanted to ask that question.

;)

It’s been happening to me a lot lately....

LMAO

:cuss:

The rants in this were top shelf. Rhys delivery was hilarious also.

One thing I can’t get over.

Emily Dodson looks like Ozzie Osbourne. Which I guess ties into the song he recorded about him.

Nah. The feeling old part. It seems like every day there is a reminder that I’m an old man.

I guess in retrospect I’m glad I haven’t seen the old Perry masons. Because I’m enjoying the hell out of this. If seeing the old ones would ruin it I guess I’m glad I missed out.

I have been trying not to watch, haven't missed an episode

This is where I'm at. I thought Perry Mason was some detective and then lo and behold he turns out to be a lawyer? Well, isn't that an unexpected turn of events!

The finale was nice. It's not a top-10 show, but it's extremely watchable and enjoyable. I'll definitely watch the second season, but I'm not exactly pining for it.

On the subject of HBO series, I finished I'll Be Gone in the Dark recently too and that was great. The way they wove it all together was really impressive and thoughtful.

And I'm on the verge of finishing I Know This Much is True with Mark Ruffalo. His acting performance is ****ing brilliant. But man, it's dark and sad. Watching it feels like swimming in your pool with weights dragging you to the bottom.

Perry Mason is one of the most popular characters of the last 100 years.

The character first appeared in more than 80 novels, followed by six feature films in the 30's, a radio show that ran for 13 years in the 40's and 50's and most famously, the TV Series starring Raymond Burr, which ran for more than 200 episodes with a follow up series in the 70's and more Movies of the Week in the 80's and 90's.

The HBO series bears no resemblance to any of the novels, radio shows and TV shows of the past, other than the names of the major characters (Mason, Della Street, Paul Drake and DA Hamilton Burger).

I think I would have enjoyed the series exponentially more had they created new names for the characters and called it something else because it's been nothing like the original.

Waiting for "Johnnie Cochran" on the "Cock" (Peacock)...didn't want to bring Clay's dick into this.....

That’s certainly fair.

Although now I feel like a douche for not being familiar with Perry Mason. ROFL

I don't care what all the novels, radio, or TV shows portray, I know they all were bedding their respective Della Street's.

Surprised their isn't a porno parody of Raymond doing her on the witness stand

Raymond Burr was gay

OK so, Della with a strap on riding Perry like a horse on sidebar?

So Burr was like Clay? Except for Burr was rich and famous..

Said he was ****ing all the hot women (Natilie Wood) while actually getting his fudge packed outside prying eyes.

"So, to cover his tracks, Burr had begun to invent a completely bogus history for himself.

This included military service he had never undertaken, battle wounds he had never sustained, early marriages to two women who never existed, the birth and death of a son who was yet another figment of his fantasy, and alleged sexual relationships with female Hollywood stars, one of whom — Natalie Wood — laughed the idea to scorn when I asked her about it.

Many of the claims Burr made about his life were accepted at face value by his first biographer, Ona Hill, in a book published in the year after his death. But his definitive biographer, Michael Seth Starr, writing 15 years after Burr’s demise, confronted all the claims head-on, demolishing most of them. His book was entitled Hiding in Plain Sight: The Secret Life of Raymond Burr.

Raymond William Stacy Burr was born on May 21, 1917 in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada. He was a chubby baby, exhibiting even then the ample girth that would both help and haunt him for the rest of his days.

By the age of 22, Burr, as far as anyone knew, had never dated anyone. But the gossip columnist Ed Sullivan muddied the waters when he published an unsubstantiated rumour that Ona Munson, who had played Belle Watling in the movie Gone With The Wind, was ‘flirting with San Franciscan Raymond Burr’.

There was only one problem about this. Ona, despite three disastrous marriages, was a lesbian who was later linked to both Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich.

Burr met his first and only wife, Isabella Ward — Bella, as she preferred to be called — in 1943, during his first season as a trainee actor at the Pasadena Playhouse. The couple co-starred in Burr’s first Playhouse production, Quiet Wedding, and were married on January 10, 1948, when he was 30.

The marriage collapsed within months and they were divorced in 1952. Neither would ever remarry. Bella would later comment: ‘Some people are just not marrying people — and I think I’m one of them.’

Burr was later to insist that Bella was not his first wife and that he had been married previously to a Scottish actress named Annette Sutherland, whom he was supposed to have met while he was touring Britain in the early 1940s.

He claimed Annette had died in June 1943 in the same plane as actor Leslie Howard, shot down by the Nazis over the Bay of Biscay."


Do I need to go on?


"In 1959, seven years after his divorce from Bella, Burr began introducing yet another previous wife into his calamitous history. This one was named Laura Andrina Morgan and he claimed to have married her in either 1955 or 1953.

She conveniently died soon afterwards, having lost her battle with cancer just before the couple’s planned honeymoon in the Bahamas. Once again, no one known to Burr ever met Laura and no trace of her has ever been found."


It's an OK series, I don't go out of my way to watch it. but I do watch it.

Rather than diving back into Umbrella Academy, or delving into darker fare like horror or thrillers, I finally started my with through NPH's 'Series of Unfortunate Events' Netflix series.

Only 5 eps in thus far, but pleasantly surprised in an unexpected way.

It's sinister and whimsical in the vein of Pushing Daisies [Sonnenfeld], like I expected. But the sense of humor is very dry and often disarmingly funny.

It's what you might call smart and winking humor, which could come off smug and tedious in the wrong hands. It plays with subverting the narrative and making callbacks and little snarky asides. I sense that a lot of this comes from the brliiance of the books it was based on, and if so I see why they were so popular. But it really delivers at moments. Surprised how often I find myself chuckling almost involuntarily.

EDIT: It was bugging me what the 'smart-dumb' humor reminded me of, and it just struck me. . . . It has a similar sense of humor to Raising Arizona crossed with The Princess Bride . . .

It's definitely reminiscent some of the better young adult books I recall from my childhood.

Just curious, if anyone has seen the whole thing and how it holds up long term. I don't want to overstay the welcome or wade into some of the material if the consensus is it is subpar.

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Oh, this is probably in an older thread but last year, when I was recovering from back surgery, I binged Parks & Rec.

The first season was a tough watch but I fought through it because the show has been so highly regarded by essentially anyone whose seen it.

But goodness gracious, does that show take off in Season 2! And I have to say I think that it’s was Rob Lowe’s career defining role and he was sooooo freaking good. All of the actors where outstanding, although it took me a bit to warm up to Billy Eichner’s character.


But overall, it’s an 8.9 with the only thing holding it back from a ten is season one.

Agreed. It's not as funny as The Office but it's pretty good.

I need to circle back to that. I picked it up once a couple years ago and just forgot about it.

I always like Pushing Daiseys and yeah - very similar feel. I also thought the movie took a little more crap than it deserved.

Man, Ted Lasso has no business being as good as it is. I'm glad Dane mentioned it in another thread because it reminded me to watch the last episode. Sudeikis is absolutely killing it. The only downside is the release schedule (next one is 8/21).

The Blacklist!

I specifically logged in here to see if anybody was talking about it.

My wife loves Sudeikis and convinced me to watch it with her. We watched the first 4 episodes and I actually thought it was...great.

In any other setting, his performance might have been too over-the-top to be watchable but his midwestern bumpkin schtick ended up being a perfect counterbalance the the surly seriousness and sneering selfishness of the other main characters. You got the feeling from the very beginning that he could be a heart amongst the heartless and it wasn't long at all before you started to see the path on which he could turn the team around.

Sure, the locker room dynamics are a bit cliched but I'm sure I'm not the only one that could actually see that being a real life struggle of any professional locker room, not just an English football club.

By the end of episode 4, I wasn't just invested in the main characters, I was rooting for them. And rooting for AFC Richmond.

I'm not ashamed to say it I guess. I love this show and can't wait for more.

Rob Lowe has always been criminally underrated in these types of roles. I absolutely agree that Parks and Rec was probably his best work.