Too much of everything

Sadly Over-hyped

good back-story, and good acting

everything you have heard about this movie is true.

I am only in my 30s and I love legal dramas. But the problem with most of them is pretty much the same problem with today's entertainment in general: too much blood and guts and too much sex. I subscribe to CBS All Access and after watching the original Mission Impossible series (which was also great) I discovered Perry Mason. I love classic noir movies, but I wasn't sure if I could take a whole noir TV show. Boy was I wrong! I love it (and on another note, Raymond Burr is so fine). Anyway, each episode is like watching a short movie, and there are a lot of episodes. To me, the old shows are the best. Today's shows have very lazy writing and producing where they feel that sex, violence, and profanity is the way to go. These things may sell to many people, but they are definitely not ingenious. The old shows like Perry Mason put a lot of thought into each episode. Now that's true entertainment!

Although quite young at the time, I used to watch this program on black and white TV with my Dad. He thought the series was great and I shared his enthusiasm even though I had trouble guessing the murderer. Here I am, decades later, watching them on MeTV and still not satisfied until I bought the entire collection on Amazon. These are timeless gems, and thank God there are 271 of them. I have many to go and lots more enjoyment. What's especially great is the phenomenal chemistry of the cast with Perry, Della and Paul saving clients from the two arms of the law, Burger and Tragg. Add to that the nostalgia for the late 50's and 60's, the appearance that life was so much more simple, and you're really transformed into another point in time. And, when I finish watching them all, I'll look forward to watching my favorite ones sometime in the future.

I recently stumbled upon re-runs of this T.V. classic. After re- acquainting myself with this classic gem, I am very happy these episodes are available again. When I was a much younger man, I watched this show in my darkened living room, eating a ham sandwich, trying to anticipate who was the real killer before Perry revealed the truth at the conclusion of each episode. I wasn't very successful in that exercise. Now, the reason for my contribution here: when I first saw these shows, I was in my very early teens, and my passion was baseball, not girls, and, as a result, I was in no position to comment on the attractiveness of the actresses on PM. Now, just thinking about playing baseball makes my shoulder scream in protest, and I very much appreciate beautiful women. I am amazed at the sheer numbers of truly gorgeous women that appeared on this show---to mention only one, a young and drop-dead gorgeous Barbara Eden. The producers and casting staff are to be commended. I, for one, appreciate their decisions.

Lawyer Perry Mason is what we would like lawyers to be. TV Show Perry Mason is what we would like court cases to be.Was life every this way? It's easy to look around today and "No way", but those who didn't have many experiences before the information age simply don't have "information" to go on.There was a time of "naivette", of rotary phones, of waiting for news.Still, the episodes of "Perry Mason" depict a world that was way before my time, the fifties, when I was born.The characters behave believably, except for the final confession in the courtroom. It had to be a great stand up comic joke at the time.I always got a kick out of Hamilton Burger, the opposing attorney, who never could beat Perry Mason. Again, another tailor made stand up comic joke.It was the "atmosphere" that made the show. A safe world, partially safe because of Perry Mason and his crew, as well as Lt. Tragg and Hamilton Burger. A world where people treated each other with respect. A world where being disrespectful wasn't rewarded.It's a black and white world, and often the world is black and white. There aren't as many "gray" situations in real life as the modernists want you to think. That's part of their "snake oil".