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I had an interesting TV series viewing experience over the weekend.  Perry Mason (2020) but not at all like the Perry Mason TV shows we're used to.  Thing is when I viewed the first episode, I was totally intrigued because it was completely different to what I expected.  It's almost a movie as an art form portraying the real corruption and terrible state of justice in Los Angeles, US when it was so easy to gang up on innocent victims just so that the Attorney General could get extra votes.  It also shows how gullible people were to be taken for a ride by evangelists and how equally corrupt they were.  Matthew Rhys - a Welsh man from the UK - took the lead of Perry Mason.  I liked the story line of him starting as a dirt poor investigator, barely existing during the depression year of 1931.  And then when a baby is abducted and cruelly killed, how the passion of that investigation turned him into a lawyer.  Lots of drama around that makes all of the players real.  

The Series have 8 episodes.  Not sure whether there will be a second season, but I score this 8.5/10.

Interesting titbit is that Robert Downey Jr was supposed to take the role of Perry Mason and had to let it go because of conflict of schedule.  He did turn out to be a consultant on the movie.  The Director of the movie was Tim Van Patten, brother of Dick Van Patten, a well known comedian.