
And Ennis, apparently involved in the murder, was cleaning up loose ends. The three men were hiding out in the wake of the murder. In the “Perry Mason” premiere, there was a scene in which a trio of men, seemingly the kidnappers, are gunned down by Detective Ennis (Andrew Howard). What we learned this week, though, is that we actually had met George back in the first episode. This, of course, implicated George in Charlie’s murder, and that in turn implicated Emily. And we found out he’s dead, allegedly a suicide by shotgun, complete with a note expressing some vague remorse and a bunch of cash burned in the fireplace.

We found out that he was having an affair with Emily Dodson (Gayle Rankin), the mother of the murdered baby Charlie. So, George Gannon was officially introduced last week.
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But that’s what we’re here for.Īlso Read: 'Perry Mason' Reboot Premieres to Largest Audience for a New HBO Series Since 'Sharp Objects' And at the end of the episode, we finally got a big chunk of the answer.īut “Perry Mason” is not a show that holds your hand through these things, so you might not quite grasp how these pieces all fit together. So right now George is pretty much all anybody on the show wants to talk about, and Perry Mason himself (Matthew Rhys) spends the episode trying to figure out what his role was in this whole situation - and, honestly, whether he was even really involves and whether his affair with Charlie’s mother implicates her as well. Now, George is very dead, and his face is basically destroyed, so you’ll be forgiven for not realizing this dead body was once a live human being who we met already.

started to dig into the story of one George Gannon. But we finally started to get a glimpse behind the curtain this week, and Perry and co. Having seen only three of the eight episodes thus far, we still know very little about the big picture. (This article contains spoilers for HBO’s “Perry Mason” through the episode that aired July 5)īeing a noir thriller, “Perry Mason” on HBO tells the story not just of a murder mystery - but of a conspiracy as well.
