If anything, it looks like HBO's upcoming do-over of Perry Mason is going to be very quotable. The first thing star Matthew Rhys says in the first trailer for the upcoming detective drama is something we can all relate to: "I don't like it here...
everybody's up to something." Amen, brother. HBO's take on the legendary criminal defense lawyer, who was created for the page by Erle Stanley Gardner and adapted into a 1950s television show and famously played by Raymond Burr, is set in 1932 and drenched in noir and jazz, setting a moody atmosphere for Perry Mason to tear through the justice system.
And Mason looks plenty disaffected to give the show the bite it deserves. Best New Shows and Movies on Netflix This Week: Too Hot to Handle,
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