No. It isn't.
It is the usual "Take the name and strip out all the rest of the story" junk.
Perry Mason was based on the novels by Earl Stanley Gardner.
Why, yes he was. Good for you. Knowing that.
BTW Perry Mason was in the Navy in World War II. According to the author who actually invented him.
It must be exhilarating to know everything without knowing anything.
I'm the rubber, you are the glue.
Look, it’s OK to put your own spin on characters and change some details, as long as it’s GOOD.
This is a drama with a seedy, Depression-era feel. That’s one reason I like it.
By the end of season one, Perry IS a lawyer, and Della and Drake work for him. How they got there was pretty interesting, IMO.
“BTW Perry Mason was in the Navy in World War II. According to the author who actually invented him.”
The first Perry Mason novels were written in the early 1930s.
I Am Iron Man!
It appears that this is not to your liking, but in this version, he was in the army in WWI. The flashback scene to his experience was one of the most harrowing war scenes I’ve seen in film since the D-Day landing re-creation in Saving Private Ryan.