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Originally Posted by Hitch
We've given up on Perry Mason (new) S2. I wasn't that wild about S1, which I thought was abysmally dismal and grim and not at all like the books (or the show, for that matter), didn't honor ESG's work at all. It also had zero emotional payoff at the end.
S2 is just...worse, in some ways. Again, it's hard to like ANY of the characters (except Paul Drake, possibly). And both Drake and Mason, who were (physically) big men in the novels (and the show) are certainly not in this show. They're both on the decidedly smaller side. I won't get into all the other "different than the book" stuff; we are all accustomed to that sort of thing from Hollyweird. But once again, it's all just too trope-y, and I can't like Mason, not wild about Della...Burger is okay but I mean, why watch?
Hitch
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Although I can barely remember the original TV series and have never read any of the Perry Mason books I agree with your opinion of the new series.
The first series was okay to have on when cross stitching, but I found it very bleak and depressing. The second season started the same. I didn't even watch the second episode. I had planned to, but forgot about it and after I just didn't feel like watching it anyways.
I'm still watching Critical Role and with about 300 episodes to go I have a while to go. I also watched three episodes of the documentary series about Michel Fourniret/Monique Olivier. I can't remember Fourniret's arrest, but I do vaguely remember Olivier; how people felt a certain level of sympathy for her at first, until she confessed to being an accomplice to her husband.