This post contains mild spoilers for the season 2 premiere of “Perry Mason.”HBO’s “Perry Mason” is back, and the second season starts not only with a bang, but with a fire.
If you’ve seen the episode, you may or may not know that the flammable event we saw unfold is part of real Los Angeles history.Deciding to include that occurrence in the show, however, came after the creative team decided where they wanted their characters to go emotionally.
“I would say first and foremost that we always start with our characters,” co-showrunner Michael Begler told me in the lead up to the season 2 premiere, later adding that they had to “pick and choose” what historical happenings would “organically work” as they built out the story that will unfold in the upcoming episodes.I spoke with Begler and executive producer Susan Downey about how they approached crafting the second season,
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