Perry Mason (TV Series) Chapter Seven (2020) User Reviews

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[formotog · 8/10 · 3 August 2020]

Even better than last week. All the build up throughout the season has come to this and for probably the first time this year I really can't wait until next week to see what happens. A hell of a lot happened and we got to see courtroom drama, detective work, and finally the so-called resurrection. We finally have the church well and truly connected to all this and after that ending, everything seems to be in limbo. It looks like we have the answers, but is that gonna mean anything next week? Guess I'll have to wait and see but the pacing and acting this week was really brilliant and season one looks set to end on a high

Mid 8

I feel like a broken record...

[AlsExGal · 10/10 · 5 August 2020]

... this series just keeps topping itself every week. This week could be called "odd couples, odd results". But even that doesn't sum it up.

Perry and his old partner come to an odd conclusion, and we finally get to see Drake and Perry in action. Perry tells Drake: "Watch how it's done". And that doesn't exactly work out.

That kiss between Della and Hamilton Burger a couple of weeks ago? Tonight, in a prolonged scene, we finally get to see what it is all about.

As for Alice and Birdie, I was expecting something shocking, but never THAT! I just want to give a shout out to actress Lili Taylor. Never a conventional beauty, she has played all kinds of characters and all have intrigued me, starting back in "Dogfight" and then as the woman Nate marries but doesn't choose in "Six Feet Under", and now THIS.

Some of the mystery begins to fall into place in ways I never considered when this started out. And there is one shocking scene in the middle of the murder mystery beginning to come together.

I really like how the writers have had long scenes between characters that make me think that things are a certain way between them only to have them turn everything you believed on your head in a later scene.

Best of all, I love how Perry is coming into his own in confidence in the courtroom. I wish I could say more, but I don't want to give anything away. All I can say is, if you binge watch this, don't give up on it in the first couple of episodes. It not only gets better but every episode reveals why things were done the way that they were in what seems like a slow opening.

As I keep saying-

[agnabeya · 10/10 · 3 August 2020]

This just keeps getting better and better every week! Tonight I was left breathless at the end-I hadn't realised I was holding my breath. From the beginning- I have thought this was the best thing on TV for years. It gets better all the time.

Chapter Seven

[Prismark10 · 5/10 · 10 August 2020]

I was fearing that Pete Strickland, now Perry's sole investigator would meet a sticky end.

After all this is an origins story and Paul Drake is his go to investigator.

Well those church elders were not in this series because they all have pretty faces and clean souls. It was obvious they would be mired in the baby kidnapping plot.

Perry Mason has success linking the church, their dicey finances and a motive to kidnap the baby. However it is not enough.

Paul Drake helps out Perry as they search for a junkie Chinese prostitute who was a wet nurse to the kidnapped baby.

However the flow of the courtroom drama was interrupted by the resurrection sub plot. With one more episode still to go, it was too much to expect that the drama of the courtroom would go uninterrupted.

As with other episodes. Pacing issues hurts this show. This could had been wrapped in four episodes and there is still one more to go.