Season two of the HBO revival moves beyond its protagonist’s origin story and into the courtroom, and becomes the show it was meant to be.
gets a lot better when the titular defense attorney spends a lot of time in a courtroom!is a testament to how satisfying it is when a second season successfully reshapes the raw materials of a promising but imperfect first season.’s season two, premiering tonight on HBO, does this in some minor ways and in some much more significant ones The clearest and most obvious improvement on the first season, though, is also the simplest.
Season two is not a radical rebuilding of what came before, although E.B.’s death in season one means that part of the show was always going to be different. But Perry Mason is still a sad, sad man who’s hung up on cynicism and self-recrimination and the inadequacy of the American justice system. Della Street is still pragmatic, ambitious, and trying to tiptoe around the secret of her attraction to women.
E.B.’s death and Perry’s begrudging acceptance that only he can save his season-one client finally tip him over into reluctant but effective litigator, which means that in nearly every episode of season two, he has to show up in a courtroom, stand in front of a judge , and argue about all the details of why his clients are on the right side of the law.
Just as important, though, all the courtroom scenes are crucial to what makes this iteration of Perry Mason work as characters. Perry’s grumpiness, his snappish temperament, his disdain for legal trickery and anything that gets in the way of The Truth — all of it is great! Except it makes him at least a little unbearable to be around, and it’s hard to understand why he’s even begrudgingly chosen the profession he’s in.
It should be obvious that a legal procedural is better when the main character proceeds with a lot more legality, and yet it’s hard to overstate just how much it helps. There are two sides to Perry Mason as a character. He snoops around looking for clues, yes, but he also needs to stand in front of a stern judge and yell things like “Your Honor, I object!”’s second season finally puts both pieces together, and it is a gavel-banging good time.
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