Perry Mason is an iconic figure of US television, a defence lawyer in 1930s Los Angeles who specialises in saving the falsely accused.
I asked an American friend what he signified. “Careful and clever,” he said. “Stocky, maybe even fat. The name connotes precision and exactitude.
It’s actually a bit Sherlock Holmes.” We’ll take his word for it. I have never seen the original, based on Erle Stanley Gardner’s novels, which was a black-and-white stalwart of the Fifties and Sixties, but if you come to this ritzy HBO remake with fond memories you may be shocked.In the first place, Mason is not stocky in the slightest.
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