Perry Mason wins a hung jury by bribing a juror. I will repeat that, Perry Mason bribes a juror. There are two other jurors who refuse to convict even though they weren't bribed, as if that somehow makes bribing a juror more palatable.
I suppose that you could make the argument that Perry Mason learns the lesson that he doesn't need to cheat to have success. And that learning that lesson costs him his relationship with Pete Strickland. Perry Mason's conduct is reprehensible. It is every bit as bad as anything that the wildly unethical prosecuting attorney does. Perry Mason likes to say that there are things that are legal, and there are things that are right. Bribing a juror is both illegal and horribly wrong. Any script that tries to soft-pedal the severity of the crime of bribing a juror is a badly written script. A VERY badly written script. It is also very lazy writing. Every single courtroom drama ever made could have been resolved by having the defense attorney win a hung jury by bribing a juror.
I feel duped. I feel cheated. I very much wanted to like this show. I was won over by the look and the feel of the show. There were a lot of great acting performances in this series. But all of that was completely wasted by an absurdly bad finale to season one. I can't believe that anyone thought that this was a good way to end this season. I am actually embarrassed for the writers.
I eagerly watched every episode of season one of this series. I will NOT be making the same mistake with subsequent seasons.
I suppose that you could make the argument that Perry Mason learns the lesson that he doesn't need to cheat to have success. And that learning that lesson costs him his relationship with Pete Strickland. Perry Mason's conduct is reprehensible. It is every bit as bad as anything that the wildly unethical prosecuting attorney does. Perry Mason likes to say that there are things that are legal, and there are things that are right. Bribing a juror is both illegal and horribly wrong. Any script that tries to soft-pedal the severity of the crime of bribing a juror is a badly written script. A VERY badly written script. It is also very lazy writing. Every single courtroom drama ever made could have been resolved by having the defense attorney win a hung jury by bribing a juror.
I feel duped. I feel cheated. I very much wanted to like this show. I was won over by the look and the feel of the show. There were a lot of great acting performances in this series. But all of that was completely wasted by an absurdly bad finale to season one. I can't believe that anyone thought that this was a good way to end this season. I am actually embarrassed for the writers.
I eagerly watched every episode of season one of this series. I will NOT be making the same mistake with subsequent seasons.