Perry Mason: bad to the exact same extent that it is good

The HBO reboot is a visually gorgeous show set in 1930s LA, but it relies on bombast and stale old character tropes If you are starved of prestige television at the moment, you could do worse than catch up with Perry Mason (Monday, 9pm, Sky Atlantic), the HBO reboot of the 50s/60s-straddling defence attorney drama. Mason is a grizzled gumshoe now instead of a slick lawyer, and keeps staring into the middle distance and thinking intently about war instead of, I don’t know, filing the exact