Perry Mason Season 2's Big Twist Shocked The Actors Playing The Gallardo Bros

Peter Mendoza agreed with his onscreen brother about how much the revelation changes up the dynamic for Season 2 of "Perry Mason," which had both the main characters and the audience believing that the duo were innocent and were simply being railroaded as convenient scapegoats for the crime.

"It was like a big, whole jigsaw puzzle, but at the end, it was exciting," Mendoza explained. "It was shocking, it was surprising, and it was like, 'Oh, but what do we do with this now? Where do we go? How does that influence our performance going on?'"

While Perry (Matthew Rhys), Della (Juliet Rylance), and Paul Drake (Chris Chalk) are understandably miffed when they realize they're not playing with a full deck as far as the facts are concerned, this development does help to give Season 2 of "Perry Mason" a more morally murky texture to wade into as it continues to explore the mystery.

"It was very much Casablanca," Mendoza went on. "Like every episode was a new embellishing of the history of how we got here, so maybe that was why they did that, to create this truthfulness from us so that we didn't give away any specifics about how we got here."