SERIES SHOW ON THE GREAT DEPRESSION
The series follows the origins of American fiction’s most legendary criminal defense lawyer, Perry Mason
While the rest of the country struggles through the Great Depression, this Los Angeles is booming! Oil! Olympic Games! Talking pictures! Evangelical fervor! And a child kidnapping gone very, very wrong. The series follows the origins of American fiction’s most legendary criminal defense lawyer, Perry Mason. When the case of the decade breaks down his door, Mason’s relentless pursuit of the truth reveals a fractured city and just maybe, a pathway to redemption for himself.
Perry Mason stars Matthew Rhys as Perry Mason, a low-rent private investigator who is living check-to-check and is haunted by his wartime experiences in France and suffering the effects of a broken marriage; John Lithgow as Elias Birchard “E.B.” Jonathan, a struggling attorney and semi-regular employer of Mason; Juliet Rylance as Della Street, E.B. Jonathan’s creative and driven legal secretary; Tatiana Maslany as Sister Alice McKeegan, the leader of the Radiant Assembly of God, preaching to a hungry congregation and a radio audience across the country; Chris Chalk as Paul Drake, a beat cop with a knack for detective work; and Shea Whigham as Pete Strickland, who is hired by Mason as an extra set of eyes on his various investigations.
Based on characters created by author Erle Stanley Gardner, HBO Original drama series Perry Mason, starring Emmy winner Matthew Rhys, debuts same time as the U.S. on Monday, 22 June at 9 a.m. exclusively on HBO GO and HBO, with a same day encore at 10 p.m. on HBO. Subsequent new episodes premiere every Monday at the same time.
The series also stars Stephen Root, Gayle Rankin, Nate Corddry, Veronica Falcón, Jefferson Mays, Lili Taylor, Andrew Howard, Eric Lange and Robert Patrick.
Executive producers are (in alphabetical order), Amanda Burrell, Robert Downey Jr., Susan Downey, Ron Fitzgerald, Joe Horacek, Rolin Jones and Timothy Van Patten (who also directs) while Aida Rodgers serves as co-executive producer. Series is created by Rolin Jones and Ron Fitzgerald. Rhys also serves as series producer.