From what I heard they put many things in this series that Earl Stanley Gardiner never did. It’s pretty raunchy they said.
That doesn’t surprise me and to me it’s a reason not to watch it, even if I had HBO.
Sounds about right for HBO to throw porn into everything. The network is a cesspool.
Can't be as bad as what Little Orphan Annie eventually became over the years. Harold Gray is spinning in his grave over that one! If ANY damn franchise needs a "reboot" that wipes the slate completely clean and goes back to the ORIGINAL source material, its that one. As if the FDR worship in the Broadway musical weren't enough, they blackwashed Annie in the latest version (cuz "diversity") and set the story in "modern times"
Personally, I would like to see "modernized" versions of Charlie Chan and MASH (both are LONG overdue for a "reboot" and haven't been relevant to pop culture for years). But, knowing the current climate of the "entertainment industry", I have no doubt they'd ruin those. So we should probably be thankful it hasn't happened.
Interesting trivia: the 1984 film "Graystoke" rebooted Tarzan franchise after the laughable Bo Derek remake. It "went back to the source material" and received critical acclaim after decades of campy, ridiculous Tarzan movies. And that was long before Nolan's annoying Batman movies made the "Reboot" craze popular. It also meant that Graystoke was a stand alone movie. It had been done now, it would have launched a dozen more movies set in the same universe.
This December, they are going to try a THIRD attempt to adapt DUNE on screen, which is considered to be the "Lord of the Rings" of sci-fi franchises. Obviously, the previous 1984 and 2000 adaptations didn't reach a big audience. I'm very curious about the new one. We'll all praying on the internet they don't infest it with SJW propaganda.
I watched it and it did have an occasional sex scene but nothing hardcore.
Mason is PI. After his boss lawyer dies he takes the bar exam with the help of ADA Hamilton Berger.
Della Street is a lesbian
Berger is gay
Drake is black
Also as a spoiler, Mason doesn’t get the guy on the witness stand to confess. According to an earlier scene, Berger tells him nobody ever confesses on the stand. It was still a good story, but I was disappointed in that as Mason is just starting to get his feet under him in his first trial the wouldn’t let him hammer the guy to confess as we all grew up watching him do that in the TV series.