john lithgow

HBO’s “Perry Mason” shares a title with its TV series predecessor — and that’s where all similarities end. This new eight-episode drama, with Matthew Rhys in the title role, deviates sharply from the CBS series (1957-66) starring Raymond Burr as the brilliant, no-nonsense Eisenhower-era LA defense attorney who, with his penetrating stare and rising-crescendo cross-examinations, …