When reviewing the second season of Perry Mason, which ended up being one of the more pleasant surprises of the year that surpassed its first by leaps and bounds, there was a feeling that the final episode could work as a series finale.
At the time, the montage it concluded with had everything returning to normal — or some version of normal— while Matthew Rhys’ titular detective-turned-lawyer found himself isolated and incarcerated.
It wasn’t a glamorous or grand finale, as it showed how there was a cost to bear even with an incomplete victory.
Like life, the triumph that Mason managed to achieve was intermixed with tragedy.
What could be a more fitting final scene than that? Still, there was a hope that it wouldn’t end there.
After the writers from the acclaimed series The Knick took over, Season 2 of Perry Mason was merely the culmination of how it…
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