Perry Mason Season 2 Episode 1 Chapter Nine
1933. In the months following the Dodson trial, an aimless Perry leans on Della to keep the law firm afloat. While Paul accepts a job from an unlikely source, corrupt oil scion Brooks McCutcheon recruits Detective Holcomb in his quest to reshape the future of Los Angeles.
It says a lot about our current understanding of and relationship with the justice system that the only way to make a compelling lawyer protagonist in a TV show is to have him reject that system entirely. And it says a lot, too, about how far we’ve come in the century since Perry Mason was created and became both a literary and television hero that his essential defining characteristic – his honesty – is still what makes him stand out. After all that time, it seems we haven’t come very far at all.
Perry Mason Season 2 Episode 1 Recap
HBO might have changed a lot about the iconic Erle Stanley Gardner criminal defense lawyer; he’s now a traumatized war veteran with a fondness for the bottle, existing in a grittier, prestige-TV version of 30s Los Angeles, and he’s nursing not just old wounds but the outcome of recent cases, not to mention present financial strife. But he’s still very much in opposition to the “illusion” of justice that greases the wheels of American courtrooms. Unfortunately for him, keeping on the lights in law offices means a fair amount of ethical compromise.
Who are Brooks and Lynell McCutcheon?
You know that Perry won’t spend the entire season making ends meet with civil cases, but the Season 2 premiere makes it clear anyway by introducing – and then bait-and-switching – the new villain, Brooks McCutcheon, the pampered idiot son of a no-nonsense oil magnate named Lynell who, in the opening scene, orders the high-profile sinking of the Luxe casino barge. This was intended as a bit of business-savvy sabotage but ends up sinking the entire vessel in broad daylight in front of countless witnesses, which is shorthand for Brooks’s general uselessness. He’s determined to earn daddy’s approval through various misguided investments, including a local money-pit baseball team, but Lynell thinks he’s a moron and advises him to focus on his charity work instead.
Perry Mason
Season Number: 2
Episode Number: 1
Episode Title: Chapter Nine
Air Date: Mar 6, 2023
Language: English
Subtitle Language: English
Source: Perry.Mason.2020.S02E01.1080p.WEB.H264-CAKES.
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