Daniel Brooks

This is an expensively and well-filmed soap opera. The men are good looking, mostly with large jaws. They are immoral, dirty dogs who let the women and their families down. The women have spats with one another. Male adolescents in the series are oppressed by the world. The white men are the worst in the series while non-white men are let off the hook but eventually they, too, do wrong. Good acting! My wife and two daughters in their 20's love this series.

I grew up watching the original Perry Mason TV show. This series is nothing at all like it. That said, it is worth watching if you are retired, like me, and have lots of free time. The series has good stories, compelling court scenes and the acting is excellent. I'd give it a four or even five stars but the pace of each episode slows down as homage is paid to several woke subplots that have little to do with the story line. For example, at one point a lesbian couple are seen at a boxing match, on their first date, discussing the fine points of two men beating the daylights out of one another. This had nothing to do with the ongoing story of that episode. Some scenes like this one seemed artificial. But alas, this is Hollywood, insistently ideological. To be fair the writing, acting and production is quite good and I will keep watching to see how thing turn out. I remain ever patient with Hollywood forcing me to remember that minorities are all good, worthy and upright citizens whereas white men in power are pigs. But not Perry Mason, luckily, he only surrounds himself with the wrongfully oppressed whom he lifts up and saves. He is a good white guy. Mostly.

I was having difficulty finding something original and funny on Netflix when I stumbled across Mindhorn. Man, am I glad I did. Well worth watching, got a laugh out of it. The acting is very camp but fantastic, in a wonderful and weird British way. Watch it, while you can, before it gets pulled from your streaming service for being too different from the standard fare now on offer.