User Reviews

Another decent episode. John Lithgow gave an amazing performance, it really was his episode. We are slowly getting further and further into this case, and I don't mind the slow pacing but I must say that this one was especially slow. We took more of an insight into EB and the toll this has all taken on him. I like the character exploration aspects. I noticed Drake wasn't featured in this episode and I do hope there's more to him than simply just being a necessary piece of the puzzle. The dialogue at times felt a bit forced in this episode, a bit like they're trying too hard to emulate some 30s LA speak. Sometimes it comes off really well and sometimes it doesn't, it's a bit hit and miss. I also feel the church storyline isn't really connected enough (yet) to the main story to really be all that invested. At the moment it does feel like it's a diversion rather than a seamless part of the whole story. I hope that very soon we can get some really strong links that make everything gel together nicely

Mid 7

What an incredibly captivating performance by John Lithgow. I have always been a fan of his work but his portrayal of this role was truly superb acting. The scene in the jail cell where he is grappling with saving himself or saving Emily, moved me to tears.

I'm a sucker for a good detective story and this series hasn't disappointed. It's more gritty than I expected but it works. The writing and story development has been very good through these first four episodes. I've never seen the original Perry Mason series but now I'm interested in seeing how this character ends up.

Even if you don't like this genre, this episode is worth watching for John Lithgow's performance. He is that good!

Each episode of this version of Perry Mason is more and more like a bad soap opera. Since Chapter 1 there have been remarks made about Perry being a homosexual. Now they have Della being a lesbian. To make it worse you have people who are middle class in 1932 talking like modern street thugs with almost every other sentence someone saying the F word. The writers of this soap opera with the language could make a sailor blush. There are so many things the writers failed to research for this to be a period set piece, In Chapter 3 Sister Alice is giving a speech about how she and her mother at times had to decide if it was going to be food or gas for their car that had already broken down 3 time already. Now in the early part of the 20th century there were may more car makes then we have today. However with all the makes there were to choose from the writes come up with a car that never existed! There times Sister Alice talks about the Peterson touring car they were drive. There was not a Peterson but there was a Paterson car. If these writers cannot get the details right the whole episode is not believable!