Elsbeth review – a tedious spinoff for the Good Wife character who makes you want to smash your TV | Television & radio

noDespite being a devoted fan of The Good Wife, I never felt more alone than when I despised the recurring character, Elsbeth Tacioni (Carrie Preston), the lawyer who would sometimes appear with a mind-bending “eccentricity,” plucking answers out of thin air to win her client’s freedom as if they were mystical puzzles rather than divine […]
TV tonight: The Good Wife’s Elsbeth Tascioni gets the spin-off detective show she deserves | Television
Elsbeth 9pm, Sky WitnessGiving The Good Wife’s charmingly goofy lawyer Elsbeth Tascione (Carrie Preston) a Columbo-esque “how-catch-chem” transplant from Chicago to New York is such a no-brainer that it makes you wonder why this spinoff took so long. Even better, it also stars Wendell Pierce from The Wire, as Inspector Wagner, an NYPD boss who […]
Carrie Preston on ‘Columbo’-inspired CBS series ‘Elsbeth’: ‘Not whodunit but howdunit’
Newly minted “elsbeth” Star carrie preston We welcome comparisons to “Columbo,” which inspired series creators Robert and Michelle King to transplant Elsbeth Tascioni from Chicago to New York City. “Robert and Michelle King told me they started watching ‘Columbo’ reruns during the pandemic and loved it and found it comforting,” Preston, 56, told the Post […]