Perry Mason, Season Three Volume Two. Out Tuesday. (********8/10)
The more I watch Perry Mason, the more I like it. When I watched Volume One of Season Three, I suggested that splitting this set into two volumes was a bad idea. Because when I finished watching Volume One, I wanted to watch more.
Well, I got more this week, and I finally had my next fix of Perry Mason. Because this show is addictive, like a drug. Or like cheerios. (I find cheerios to be somewhat addictive as well.) Each episode plays like a little mini one-hour film noir, with betrayals and murders and backstabbing wives and such. Great stuff.
Even the episode titles have a 1950s noir vibe to them. The Case of the Wayward Wife. The Case of the Galiant Grafter. The Case of the Ominous Outcast. And then the bizarre ones too. Like The Case of the Mythical Monkeys. Which sadly involves very few actual monkeys. In many cases, the titles of the episodes have very little to do with the episodes themselves. Like, they may as well be called The Case of the Braindead Bricklayer, but then be about smugglers and diamonds. But the point is, they are all watchable, they are all classic and badass, and Season Three Volume Two comes out on December 2nd, from Paramount Home Entertainment. And yes, they could easily have put the whole sxi-deisc season three onto one DVD set.