Perry Mason
“There's power in the truth.”
CreatorRolin Jones, Ron Fitzgerald
Los Angeles in 1932, and Perry Mason is a bruised private investigator working divorce cases and taking photographs through windows, years before he becomes the defence lawyer of Erle Stanley Gardner's novels. Matthew Rhys plays him for HBO alongside Juliet Rylance as Della Street and Chris Chalk as Paul Drake, here a Black patrolman pushed to the edges of his own department. Ron Fitzgerald and Rolin Jones ran the series, which devotes a season to each case across two runs, in 2020 and 2023, staged as heavy Depression-era noir.
Seasons
2
Episodes
16
Country
United States
Status
Canceled
Cast
Matthew Rhys
Perry Mason · 16 eps
Juliet Rylance
Della Street · 16 eps
Chris Chalk
Paul Drake · 16 eps
Shea Whigham
Pete Strickland · 15 eps
Eric Lange
Detective Gene Holcomb · 13 eps
Diarra Kilpatrick
Clara Drake · 13 eps
Justin Kirk
Hamilton Burger · 11 eps
Gayle Rankin
Emily Dodson · 10 eps
Robert Patrick
Herman Baggerly · 7 eps
Tatiana Maslany
Sister Alice McKeegan · 8 eps
Gretchen Mol
Linda · 5 eps
John Lithgow
Elias Birchard 'E.B.' Jonathan · 8 eps
Molly Ephraim
Hazel Prystock · 9 eps
Katherine Waterston
Ginny Aimes · 8 eps
Stephen Root
Maynard Barnes · 7 eps
Lili Taylor
Birdy McKeegan · 7 eps
Andrew Howard
Detective Joe Ennis · 8 eps
Paul Raci
Lydell McCutcheon · 8 eps
Hope Davis
Camilla Nygaard · 6 eps
Veronica Falcón
Lupe Gibbs · 7 eps
Taylor Nichols
Elder Eric Seidel · 7 eps
Fabrizio Guido
Rafael Gallardo · 7 eps
Jee Young Han
Marion Kang · 7 eps
Mark O'Brien
Thomas Milligan · 7 eps
Jon Chaffin
Morris · 7 eps
David Wilson Barnes
Elder Ethan Brown · 7 eps
Jen Tullock
Anita St. Pierre · 7 eps
Onahoua Rodriguez
Luisa Gallardo · 7 eps
Peter Mendoza
Mateo Gallardo · 7 eps
Nate Corddry
Matthew Dodson · 6 eps
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1
Chapter 1
Los Angeles, 1931. On the heels of an unsavory investigation involving a famous comedian, Perry Mason--a PI struggling to make ends meet--and his right-hand man Pete Strickland are hired by attorney E.B. Jonathan, Perry's mentor, to solve a perplexing case: the brutal kidnapping of one-year-old Charlie Dodson, whose parents were targeted for a $100,000 ransom.
2
Chapter 2
Following one of her trademark barn-burning sermons, Evangelical preacher Sister Alice offers the Dodsons the church's full moral and financial support – much to her mother Birdy's dismay. During a routine domestic intervention, beat cop Paul Drake is rerouted to a gruesome crime scene, where he follows a confounding trail of evidence.
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Chapter 3
In order to gain an advantage over E.B. and team, wily district attorney Maynard Barnes goes public with a shocking new development. Mason and Strickland get unauthorized access to physical evidence with help from Virgil, Mason's connect at the city morgue. Later, Mason attempts to extract information from a withholding Drake, who's weary of Holcomb and Ennis' watchful eyes.
4
Chapter 4
Mason and Strickland lean on Virgil, again, for extra-legal assistance. Following Sister Alice's recovery from a frightening episode, Birdy urges her daughter to renounce her claims about baby Charlie. E.B. faces the reality of his financial situation and takes his frustrations out on Della.
5
Chapter 5
While Mason and Della run a solemn errand up north, Strickland tracks down the sergeant originally assigned to the Dodson case. Before returning to L.A., Mason drops in on his ex-wife Linda and son Teddy, hoping to make amends for his recent shortcomings. Della sets out to find Mrs. Dodson more capable legal representation.
6
Chapter 6
As Emily's trial begins and a damning witness testimony takes center stage, Mason attempts to recover from a shaky start. Meanwhile, in their search for clues that might lead to an exoneration, Della and Strickland investigate a potential connection between Detective Ennis and Charlie's kidnappers. Later, Mason considers betraying Drake's trust to give his client an edge.
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Chapter 7
Hoping to expose the hidden link between the Radiant Assembly's staggering debt and Charlie's ransom, Mason puts Herman Baggerly on the stand. Sister Alice faces mounting pressure from the church elders about her promises for a "resurrection." Strickland loses track of a key witness, while Drake's detective work opens a new avenue in the case.
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Chapter 8
After the team receives some unvarnished critique from Hamilton Burger, Della presents an increasingly stubborn Mason with her case for putting Emily on the stand. As the sensational trial winds to a close, Mason, Strickland, Della, and Drake attempt to tie up loose ends - and set the stage for their futures.
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