HBO Renews PERRY MASON For Season 2
If you haven’t been watching Perry Mason on HBO, you’re missing out on an incredible series that you’ve got to jump into. If you have been watching the show, you’ll be happy to know that HBO has picked it up for a second season! The announcement comes only five episodes into the first season of the series.
I’m a fan of the dark and gritty story the series is telling, which is set in 1930s Los Angeles. As someone who enjoys watching classic detective noir mystery thrillers, I’m really happy with how Perry Mason turned out.
Francesca Orsi, executive vice president of HBO Programming said in a statement:
“It has been an exciting journey to work with the immensely talented team behind ‘Perry Mason.’ Viewers have relished being transported back in time to 1930’s Los Angeles each week, and we are thrilled to welcome the show back for a second season.”
Matthew Rhys (The Americans) stars in the series as Mason, who is a private eye. “While the rest of the country recovers from the Great Depression, this city is booming! Oil! Olympic Games! Talking Pictures! Evangelical Fervor! And a child kidnapping gone very, very wrong! Based on characters created by Erle Stanley Gardner, this limited series follows the origins of American Fiction’s most legendary criminal defense lawyer, Perry Mason (Rhys). When the case of the decade breaks down his door, Mason’s relentless pursuit of the truth reveals a fractured city and just maybe, a pathway to redemption for himself.”
Robert Downey Jr. developed and produced the series with his wife, Susan Downey. It was co-written by Rolin Jones and Ron Fritzgerald, who are also set as the series’ showrunners. Tim Van Patten directs the series, and he has worked on many popular HBO series such as Game of Thrones, The Sopranos, Sex and the City, and Deadwood.
The series also stars John Lithgow as Elias Birchard “E.B.” Jonathan, a struggling attorney and a semi-regular employer of Mason, Juliet Rylance as Della Street, E.B. Jonathan’s creative and driven legal secretary, Tatiana Maslany as Sister Alice McKeegan, the leader of the Radiant Assembly of God, and Shea Whigham as Pete Strickland, who is hired by Mason as an extra set of eyes on his various investigations.
Source: Variety