PERRY MASON
HBO, 9:00 p.m. ET
This is Episode 6 out of 8 in this miniseries prequel to the Perry Mason canon – and it’s taken this long for Perry (played so well, and so noir-ishly, by Matthew Rhys) to finally enter what will become his home environment: the courtroom. But after arriving with all deliberate speed, Perry is at the point of defending an accused murderer, a woman suspected of complicity in the kidnapping and death of her own baby. To this point, Perry Mason has been engrossing. Tonight, it becomes increasingly familiar…