Perry Mason returns to tv with Matthew Rhys

 More than half a century after the debut on the small screen, Perry Mason returns to TV with the Welsh actor Matthew Rhys in the footsteps of Raymond Burr as the legendary "devil's advocate" who defends clients accused of murder, exonerating them after having proven guilty of somebody else. The first of eight episodes will air on HBO on June 21 in which the Emmy Award, USSR spy in "The Americans" with his partner Keri Russell and the journalist of "A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood" with Tom Hanks , plays the part of the legendary lawyer in the center of the thrillers of Earl Stanley Gardner.
    The new Perry Mason is a prequel set in 1931, two years before the debut of Gardner's first novel, "Perry Mason and the velvet paws". "While the rest of the country suffers from the Great Depression, Los Angeles is booming: oil, Olympics, sound films, evangelical fervor. And the kidnapping of a child who goes the very, very wrong way," HBO announced by presenting the first trailer in which Matthew / Perry, with a long beard and a leather jacket, looks more like Indiana Jones than the legendary defense attorney of American fiction. Distancing from the novels and the original series (nine seasons on CBS since 1957), the new version follows a single criminal case.
    The figure of Perry Mason, in addition to the thrillers published in Italy by Mondadori, is known to the general public above all for the Warner Bros. films of the thirties and for the TV series starting from the fifties the lawyer was joined by the secretary Della Street and private investigator Drake, while the traditional rival was district attorney Hamilton Burger. (HANDLE).