Perry Mason (2020)

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Season 2
  • Network: HBO
  • Series Premiere Date: Jun 21, 2020
Season #: 2, 1
Metascore
71

Generally favorable reviews - based on 19 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 14 out of 19
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 19
  3. Negative: 0 out of 19
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Critic Reviews

  1. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Matthew Gilbert
    Mar 7, 2023
    60
    The season-long case is tighter, even while it’s not quite rich enough to supply a charge to all eight episodes.
  2. Decider
    Reviewed by: Joel Keller
    Mar 6, 2023
    60
    We hope that Season 2 of Perry Mason comes together in subsequent episodes, because the first episode was a bit all over the place trying to establish where all of the characters are this season.
  3. TV Guide Magazine
    Reviewed by: Matt Roush
    Mar 9, 2023
    50
    His redemption arc was compelling, but heavy-handed storytelling lets him down in Perry Mason's disappointing second season. [13 - 26 Mar 2023, p.4]
  5. Slant Magazine
    Reviewed by: Steven Scaife
    Mar 6, 2023
    50
    Perry Mason’s second season may be watchable, but it’s so much louder about saying so much less.
  6. The Daily Beast
    Reviewed by: Nick Schager
    Mar 6, 2023
    40
    Rhys is magnetic enough to keep the series from sliding into complete torpor. He’s aided, intermittently, by Whigham. ... Perry Mason pads itself to the point of distension on the way to a finale that most will have seen coming weeks earlier.

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#80 Most Discussed TV Season of 2023

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User Score
6.5

Generally favorable reviews- based on 11 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 11
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 11
  3. Negative: 2 out of 11
  1. UncleWillard
    Mar 9, 2023
    2
    I tried with the first season, but it's really so noire, I don't care about any of the characters. They're all miserable and **** especiallyI tried with the first season, but it's really so noire, I don't care about any of the characters. They're all miserable and **** especially Perry Mason. This one isn't much better and it's boring as ****… Full Review »
  2. MetacriticOnur
    Apr 25, 2023
    6
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  3. shoulderoforion
    Mar 8, 2023
    9
    Man I love this show so much. When I first heard about a Perry Mason origin series with Robert Downey Jr, I was like ok, I will for sureMan I love this show so much. When I first heard about a Perry Mason origin series with Robert Downey Jr, I was like ok, I will for sure check this out. Not knowing anything about the original TV series, at all. Then I heard the guy from The Americans, another show I tried to watch but never got into, was replacing RDJ, I thought well I'm probably not going to watch this either. Then I saw the first episode last year, and this show is doing Raymond Chalder esque Los Angeles film noir hard boiled detective fiction right. It's beautifully shot by people who get the genre and the city, it's just so damn good. This first ep of the second season takes up where the last left off, and I'm so looking foward to this bit of heaven on Monday nights for the next few months. What a treat!… Full Review »
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