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thexfridax · 1 year

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A year before Raymond Burr first played Perry Mason, he was romantically linked to Natalie Wood. Dates to avoid scandal was a common tactic in Hollywood (and probably still is), and this gossip benefited Burr and Wood. The latter was trying to hide her relationship with Robert Wagner, and Burr would never star in Perry Mason if his sexuality were made public.

More than 60 years later, HBO’s gritty—and queer—reboot of the Erle Stanley Gardner stories features some art imitating life, using similar tactics to link Della Street (Juliet Rylance) and District Attorney Hamilton “Ham” Burger (Justin Kirk) in order to protect their reputations. Set in Los Angeles in the early 1930s, this mutually beneficial arrangement shields Della from prying comments about her lack of a husband—and Ham about his permanent bachelor status—allowing her to pursue a legal career alongside associate Perry Mason (Matthew Rhys).

For a show located so close to Hollywood, the glamorous movie-making biz had so far only existed on the seedy periphery when Perry, in his PI days, took snaps of stars in compromising positions. Tinseltown edges closer when successful and self-assured screenwriter Anita St. Pierre enters the series in a puff of Turkish cigarette smoke, offering Della respite from the dark cloud hanging over the office and the routine of her relationship with hand model Hazel (Molly Ephraim).

“This is my lesbian period piece fantasy,” Jen Tullock tells The Daily Beast’s Obsessed about the Palm Springs getaway in a recent episode of Perry Mason. It has been a busy 12-plus months for Tullock, who is currently shooting the highly anticipated second season of Severance—and cannot reveal anything other than saying it is “nothing short of mind-blowing.”

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#The Daily Beast #Perry Mason #2020 #Perry Mason spoilers #Jen Tullock #Anita St. Pierre #Della Street #Juliet Rylance #Enjoying their love story #The threat to their personal lives #is there though #Let them have some joy #Enough drama in the world #real and fictional #Thanks #LGBTQ+

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emily-escott · 11 months

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I made this a couple months ago for me and the other two people I know who watched this show🫡

#rip #perry mason hbo #meme #e.b. jonathan #perry mason #della street #lupe gibbs #hamilton burger #paul drake #anita st. pierre #pete strickland #just a bunch of little guys

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farminglesbian · 1 year

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perry mason, 2x04

#jen tullock #anita st. pierre #perry mason #😏#also 😏. just scrolled down her imdb a bit #and realized something hilarious... brb rewatching a thing

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boasamishipper · 11 months

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Chapters: 2/6

Fandom: Perry Mason (TV 2020)

Rating: Explicit

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Relationships: Perry Mason/Pete Strickland, Perry Mason & Della Street, Hamilton Burger & Della Street, Hamilton Burger & Pete Strickland, Pete Strickland/Ruthie Strickland, Anita St. Pierre/Della Street

Characters: Pete Strickland, Perry Mason, Della Street, Hamilton Burger, Paul Drake, Marion Kang, E.B. Jonathan, Teddy Mason, Ruthie Strickland, Other(s)

Additional Tags: Post-Season/Series 02, Established Relationship, Shovel Talk, Fluff and Angst and Crack, (pete strickland voice) the holy trinity, Hurt/Comfort, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Male-Female Friendship, Explicit Sexual Content, Period Typical Attitudes, 5+1 Things, Happy Ending

Series: Part 1 of Form Follows Function

Summary:

Five times Pete Strickland gets the shovel talk, and one time it’s delivered on his behalf.

#perry mason hbo #perry mason #pete strickland #strickson #della street #anita st. pierre #marion kang #fic: modern architecture #hope y'all enjoy!

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limitedseries · 1 year

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—I'm already involved with someone. —Oh... Well, is she in good health, or do I got to wait it out?

Juliet Rylance and Jen Tullock as Della Street and Anita St. Pierre Perry Mason, Season 2 (2023)

#perry mason #perry mason hbo #perrymasonedit #della street #anita st. pierra #della x anita #juliet rylance #jen tullock #wlwedit #wlwgifs #*#~#I miss them so bad it's only been a week #I need a s3 renewal already what's the holdup HBO

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femslashrevolution · 11 months

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Popular Pairing List Update

The following pairings have more than 10 recent posts in their pairing tag, and are therefore too popular to be posted on Rarepair Thursdays:

Amalia True x Penance Adair (The Nevers)

Anita St. Pierre x Della Street (Perry Mason)

Anne Boonchuy x Sasha Waybright (Amphibia)

Ava Coleman x Janine Teagues (Abbott Elementary)

Carol Aird x Therese Belivet (Carol)

Cinta Kaz x Vel Sartha (Star Wars)

Drea Torres x Eleanor Levetan (Do Revenge)

Eleanor Levetan x Gabbi Broussard (Do Revenge)

Eleanor Roosevelt x Lorena Hickok (The First Lady)

Ellie x Riley Abel (HBO The Last Of Us)

Emily Prentiss x Jennifer Jareau (Criminal Minds)

Frannie Langton x Marguerite Benham (The Confessions of Frannie Langton)

Katherine Hastings x Sadie Ryan (American Auto)

KJ Brandman x Mac Coyle (Amazon Paper Girls)

Lily Evans x Narcissa Malfoy (Harry Potter)

Mia Reed x Vada Cavell (The Fallout)

Midge Maisel x Susie Myerson (The Marvelous Mrs Maisel)

Miorine Rembran x Suletta Mercury (Mobile Suit Gundam Wing)

Natasha Romanoff x Peggy Carter (Marvel Cinematic Universe)

The following pairings have been posted less frequently recently, and have therefore been removed from the popular pairing list:

Addy Hanlon x Beth Cassidy (Dare Me)

Alex Danvers x Kelly Olsen (Supergirl)

Alex Vause x Piper Chapman (Orange Is The New Black)

Alexis Rose x Twyla Sands (Schitt’s Creek)

Allison Argent x Lydia Martin (Teen Wolf)

Andi Mack x Buffy Driscoll (Andi Mack)

Anne Shirley x Diana Barry x Ruby Gillis (Anne With An E)

Buffy Summers x Willow Rosenberg (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

Caitlin Snow x Iris West (The Flash)

Camina Drummer x Naomi Nagata (The Expanse)

Cosima Niehaus x Delphine Cormier (Orphan Black)

Dinah Lance x Helena Bertinelli (DCU)

Eleanor Shellstrop x Tahani Al Jamil (The Good Place)

Finch Tarrayo x Josie Saltzman (Legacies)

Greta Moreno x Riley Luo (Generation)

Hannah Miller x Sarah Fier (Fear Street)

Hermione Granger x Narcissa Malfoy (Harry Potter)

Ji-yeong x Kang Sae-byeok (Squid Game)

Joan x Zoey Clarke (Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist)

Kathryn Janeway x Seven of Nine (Star Trek: Voyager)

Lady Hideko x Sook Hee (The Handmaiden)

Laurel Lance x Nyssa al Ghul (Arrow)

Natasha Romanoff x Wanda Maximoff (Marvel Cinematic Universe)

Neopolitan x Yang Xiao Long (RWBY)

Nora Grace x Viri Gómez (Skam Spain)

Paris Geller x Rory Gilmore (Gilmore Girls)

River Song x Thirteenth Doctor (Doctor Who)

Seo Ji-wan x Yoon Sol (Nevertheless)

Shane McCutcheon x Tess Van De Berg (The L Word)

#femslashrevolution #femslash revolution #wlw #sapphic #bisexual #lesbian #popular pairing list #Rarepair Thursdays #mod post

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aflawedfashion · 1 year

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Della & Hamilton & Anita | Perry Mason 2x02 / 2x08

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booasaur · 1 year

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Perry Mason (2020) - 2x04

#perrymasonedit #perry mason hbo #della street #anita st. pierre #juliet rylance #jen tullock #perry mason hbo 2x04 #anita x della #femslash related stuff #oooof this scene was gorgeous #that hbo budget cinematography #the car ride and perry on the horse too #it's so nice that she went in for the hug first #I love unexpected little choices like that

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femori · 1 year

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MUSE LIST (non-carrd edition)

film

amber freeman, mikey madison, scream 5

anita ‘needy’ lesnicki, amanda seyfried, jennifer’s body

bex warren, hari nef, assassination nation

cassandra ‘cassie’ swann, sasha lane, daniel isn’t real

deena johnson, kiana madeira, fear street

evie jackson, nathalie emmanuel, the invitation

hallie mcdaniel, tati gabrielle, scream 2

heather duke, kaitlyn dever, heathers

jill roberts, emma dumont, scream 4

kirby reed, jemima kirke, scream 4

lily leblanc, mila kunis, black swan

lydia deetz, tbd, beetlejuice (film)

mckayla hooper, alexandra shipp, tragedy girls

rochelle zimmerman, lovie simone, the craft

sadie cunningham, brianna hildebrand, tragedy girls

sarah fier, juliet landau, fear street

taylor gentry, angela goethels, behind the mask

original characters

pamela clarke, jaz sinclair, fear street (1960s)

valerie marie beaumont, emma dumont, affilliated slasher oc

agatha & dorcas night, adeline rudolph & abigail cowen, caos

ava daniels, hannah einbinder, hacks (horror based?) -- TEST

carmilla karnstein, natasha negovanlis, carmilla: the series

coco st pierre vanderbilt, leslie grossman, ahs: apocalypse

ellie williams, bella ramsey, hbo's the last of us -- TEST

lark feldmont, billie lourd, ahs: red tide

madison montgomery, sophia anne caruso, ahs: coven

mallory, billie lourd, ahs: apocalypse

marienne bellamy, tati gabrielle, you -- TEST

queenie sidibe, gabourey sidibe, ahs: coven

sarah ‘belle noire’ cunningham, frances conroy, ahs: red tide

vanessa ives, eva green, penny dreadful

zoe benson, hannah einbinder, ahs: coven

video games

claudette morel, angelica ross, dead by daylight

rin yamaoka / the spirit, karen fukuhara, dead by daylight

yui kimura, devon aoki, dead by daylight

yun-jin lee, park so-dam, dead by daylight

literature

laura, samara weaving, carmilla novella

maggie leigh, jahkara smith, nos4a2

podcast

agnes montague, eline powell, the magnus archives

basira hussain, golshifteh farahani, the magnus archives

georgina ‘georgie’ barker, wunmi mosaku, the magnus archives

jude perry, bae doona, the magnus archives

melanie king, eliza dushku, the magnus archives

nikola orsinov, no faceclaim, the magnus archives

#THE MURDERED GIRLS ARE COMING OUT OF THE WOODS. [ gen. out of char ]#dnr.

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lilalbatross · 11 months

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PERRY MASON 2x08 | Chapter Sixteen

#perry mason hbo #perrymasonedit #della street #hamilton burger #anita st. pierre #flashing tw #obligatory gifs tag

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thexfridax · 1 year

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'Perry Mason' reboot's leading ladies discuss the show's fan-favorite lesbian romance

Actors Juliet Rylance and Jen Tullock discuss their characters’ sweet 1930s love story and the HBO reboot’s gritty noir appeal.

Juliet Rylance and Jen Tullock in "Perry Mason."

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April 26, 2023, 6:55 PM CEST

By Elaina Patton

After their clandestine meeting in a restaurant powder room at the beginning of season two, “Perry Mason” protagonists Della Street and Anita St. Pierre, played by Juliet Rylance and Jen Tullock, became television’s favorite well-tailored sapphic duo. And from then on, fans tuned in to see the whip-smart aspiring lawyer and free-spirited Hollywood screenwriter try to beat the odds to find love in 1930s Los Angeles. That’s until the sophomore season of HBO’s gritty adaptation of Erle Stanley Gardner’s Perry Mason crime novels came to a quiet close Monday, leaving more questions than answers — as perhaps is always the fate of romance in noir.

“I love that first meeting in the powder room between us, because Della doesn’t come across that many women that are as quick-witted, if not more quick-witted, than she is. And Anita is so feisty and exciting and liberated,” Rylance told NBC News on a video call with Tullock before the season finale.

Juliet Rylance and Jen Tullock in "Perry Mason."

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Della, who evolves from Perry Mason’s secretary in season one to his right-hand woman in season two, has had to “hide huge aspects of who she is to carve out a role in her chosen profession,” Rylance added.

“She’s been fighting to be seen and heard, but also trying desperately to hide. She’s created a world that is safe, dependable, reliable,” Rylance said, referring to her character’s season one arc. “Anita just comes in and changes everything for her.”

The electric encounter, which disarms Rylance’s perpetually composed Della, gave an early indication that the new season, helmed by showrunners Jack Amiel and Michael Begler, was going to give more time to what happened behind closed doors than the grittier, more crime-focused first chapter. And that’s partially because Rylance and her character didn’t have much time for romance when the new take on “Perry Mason” debuted in 2020.

The show — which is a reboot of the TV classic that ran from the late-1950s to the mid-‘60s and starred Raymond Burr — framed its first season as an origin story, via an infanticide case that transforms its eponymous hero from low-rent private eye into a quick-study criminal defense lawyer. So alongside Matthew Rhys, who plays the hard-boiled protagonist, Rylance spent most of that first chapter reintroducing audiences to her character, a reinvention of Mason’s secretary made famous in the original by Barbara Hale.

Matthew Rhys in "Perry Mason."

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Despite having more scenes in law offices than not, Rylance brought to life the series creators Rolin Jones and Ron Fitzgerald’s reimagining of Della as a card-carrying, if rather careful, lesbian. And with the help of her season one love interest, a much-younger boarding housemate named Hazel, played by Molly Ephraim, she delivered a fitting tribute to the original show and its star’s place in queer history.

The popularity of the series’ debut season then opened the door for an even bigger love story in the latest one, which sees a more established Della building her courtroom career in partnership op-turned-investigator Paul Drake, played by Chris Chalk. In season two, the trio take on a challenging case defending two Mexican American men — Mateo (Peter Mendoza) and Rafael (Fabrizio Guido) Gallardo — who are accused of murdering a Los Angeles golden boy. And an over-burdened Della finds herself increasingly craving the company of Anita, who then sweeps her off her feet.

“I got a couple of hate messages on Instagram, regarding Della and Hazel,” Tullock said with mock seriousness, referring to fans who were upset about Anita coming between the season one couple.

“I appreciated that, because I think it was just evidence that people were already invested in Della’s personal life from the first season,” she added, jokingly warning Rylance not to check her messages. “Watching that season, I remember feeling like you wanted more for them. There was such a sadness about these two women having to find private spaces in which to even communicate romantically, let alone be intimate.”

While Anita’s quick dispatching of Della and Hazel’s romance may have disgruntled a few fans, Tullock’s character faced her own hurdles to happily ever after in season two. Not least of all, there’s Della’s public, lavender relationship with her old friend, the closeted district attorney, Hamilton Burger, played by Justin Kirk, which gets even more complicated when he’s blackmailed while prosecuting the Gallardo case.

Between Della, Anita, Hazel and Hamilton, the second season ended up being a cornucopia of complicated queer storylines, which Tullock said is thanks to her co-stars’ pushing for the portrayal of different types of people’s experiences in the era and for storytelling that wasn’t exploitative or cliched.

“Chris and Juliet advocated for those storylines, consistently and with such love and care,” Tullock said, referring to Rylance and Chalk, whose character, in particular, deals with police corruption, racism and classism.

Tullock and Rylance — who said they immediately hit it off when they first met over martinis and whose chemistry is apparent even over a video call — said they were committed to portraying their onscreen relationship in a way that felt both historically accurate and true to their characters’ formative personalities. That meant researching the difficulties of having a queer relationship in the 1930s and adopting the coded body language people used to communicate in public. But it also meant thinking about how their connection would play out in more intimate moments.

When the women share their first kiss in episode three, for example, the bohemian Anita seems caught off guard by the sincerity of the moment. And yet, she’s totally at ease when introducing Della to novel experiences, from a boxing match to a packed evening at an underground lesbian bar, or whisking her off to a romantic Palm Springs escape.

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Notably, the season ends with a moment in which neither Della nor Anita seem fully in control of their faculties. Having secured a courtroom win, Della celebrates with an evening out, flanked on either side by Anita and Hamilton. And, in a moment that Rylance said left both her and her character feeling conflicted, a photographer offering to take a picture “of the happy couple” prompts the deep-in-the-closet district attorney to cuddle up to Della and land an intimate kiss on her shoulder for effect. The look of foreboding on each woman’s face that follows says it all.

“There’s so much that’s unanswered — the idea that Della might, in the future, have to make a choice about whether she publicly says that she’s marrying Burger, for instance. If that’s where it’s heading, what does that mean, and does Anita have to do something like that, too? And is that a betrayal or is that survival?” Rylance said. “They’re such big questions — questions that people ask today on a regular basis, too.”

To Rylance’s point, while much has changed in the United States for gay couples since the 1930s, homosexuality is still illegal in nearly 70 countries. And even in countries where it is legal, many people fear the repercussions of coming out.

If there’s a next chapter, Rylance said, she’d like to explore more about the world Anita — who was modeled after the real-life writer of “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes,” Anita Loos — inhabits and how liberated Hollywood truly was in the ‘30s.

“How hard is it being a queer woman writer in that world?” Rylance said, referring to a time when most queer creatives and stars, like Burr, needed to stay in the closet to protect their careers. “Della’s thinking all the time, ‘Oh, she’s from this liberated strata of society that I have no access to.’ And, actually, it’s not.”

Although a third season hasn’t yet been confirmed, based on calls on social media to renew the show after the finale aired on Monday, fans agree that there’s much more to see from the series. That could mean even more fervor around Della and Anita’s relationship, which inspired all kinds of internet tributes throughout the season.

“I did say to Juliet, like, ‘Watch, they’re going to put our character names together’ — because I have been on the generating end of that before,” Tullock said, joking that the most popular, “Dellita,” sounds like an erectile dysfunction medication.

The series newcomer, who describes herself as a “gay nerd,” also foresaw the two being featured in perhaps the most coveted of tributes to an onscreen sapphic romance: the compilation video.

“Unfortunately, I think this is a product of queer people being starved for representation. But, oftentimes, when there are sapphic storylines, you will end up getting these really amazing fan videos on YouTube, where people will cut all of their scenes together to, like, a Robin song,” Tullock said.

After Rylance inquired about whether their characters have any fan videos, Tullock enthusiastically replied, “Oh, we have many.”

“There have been several that people have sent me that were in other languages,” Tullock added. “There was one from Brazil, where people had cut our scenes together to a Brazilian love song. That part is really special and satisfying, because we love them so much, these characters.”

For Rylance, who tends to avoid reading much about herself and the show, the highlight of Dellita’s fame came in the form of a text message from her married aunts.

“I got a text in March saying, ‘Oh, my God, you’ve made Les Video Channel. Just give up now. You’ve peaked!’” Rylance said, referring to a popular YouTube channel that posts about onscreen sapphic romances. “That was my favorite thing all year.”

#Perry Mason #Perry Mason spoilers #Della x Anita #Juliet Rylance #Jen Tullock #Interview #I don't think #I'm in favour of #Dellita #It really sounds like Grannie's coffee or so #😜#Youtube

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