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The GuardianJun 22, 2020
Jun 19, 2020
Season 1 Review:
The series, which ultimately feels like the very long pilot for what could make a fine series yet to come, is easily enjoyable, nicely played and smartly designed, with some well-executed big set pieces; it is also occasionally unpleasant, a little nutty toward the end and too long and too busy for the material.
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RogerEbert.comJun 19, 2020
Season 1 Review:
It is a gorgeous show in terms of production design and the cast is strong from top to bottom, but writers Rolin Jones & Ron Fitzgerald struggle to find a story worth investing in for at least the first half of the eight-episode season. The back half is much stronger, and the performances elevate the production throughout, but with attention spans diminished by the state of the world in 2020, “Perry Mason” could struggle to hold viewers this summer. ... The jury is still out on that one.
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Jun 18, 2020
Season 1 Review:
There are very solid performances in “Perry Mason”—Mr. Rhys grows on you;
Steven Root is palpably dangerous as the D.A. Maynard Barnes; Lili Taylor brings
a level of seasoned control to a cast in which many have adopted director Tim Van Patten’s evident policy of stylized overstatement. The series, which begins to feel like an eight-episode pilot in the way it slowly introduces characters who seem destined to reappear elsewhere. ... If there were less ruminative wheel-spinning and more dramatic substance to this “Perry Mason,” the overkill might not be so distracting.
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Jun 17, 2020
Jun 11, 2020
Season 1 Review:
This new Perry Mason is filled with great performances (albeit not all of them belonging on the same show). It looks incredible (though also occasionally much more gory than it needs to be). But the story’s a mess — at once convoluted and a bit too dull to fill eight hours — and the idea of giving Mason the origin story he never had ultimately proves more trouble than it’s worth.
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Jun 25, 2020
Season 1 Review:
So much attention is paid to establishing Mason as a complicated and sufficiently pained male protagonist (and Rhys, to his credit, has a greater range with watchable mournfulness than anyone else on television) that the other elements of the story can get lost. ... The stylistic self-indulgence and narrative nebulousness are more of a shame because when Mason finally finds himself in court, all the pieces of the show fall into place.
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Jun 19, 2020
Season 1 Review:
Despite the first-rate production values and the stellar cast, the plot is like a gleaming 1932 Packard Roadster with serious engine problems: It’s impressive and gorgeous and appointed with all sorts of shiny distractions, but eventually we can’t ignore how it’s weaving all over the road, jerking us around and sputtering this way and that.
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Jun 19, 2020
Season 1 Review:
Many of the subplots can feel wheel-spinning — Maslany is so alive in her scenes that it can be easy to lose oneself in their endless whirl, forgetting that not that much is happening in episodes exceeding an hour of length. Too much of this show, a punishing eight installments, feels like yet another iteration of what we’ve seen already, elsewhere and often superior.
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The Daily BeastMar 6, 2023
The TelegraphJun 22, 2020
Season 1 Review:
It is not, by any stretch of the imagination, Perry Mason. ... There is very little to like about him, but Rhys is an excellent actor who imbues the character with a sorrow that makes us – just – want to root for him. It is hard to take this drama on its own terms, because its creators clearly don’t want us to; they’ve hitched their wagon to the Perry Mason name, and have thrown in re-imagined versions of familiar characters.
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