Elsbeth Tascioni isn’t your typical law enforcement official. Regularly clad in bright pink and patterned outfits, hoisting no less than three tote bags around N.Y.C., and donning a perpetually sunny attitude, Carrie Preston plays the title character—who first appeared on CBS’s The Good Wife before landing her own eponymous spin-off—as a breath of fresh air in the typical police procedural format.
In each episode of Elsbeth, the former lawyer turned NYPD consultant uses her quirky personality and excellent attention to detail to sniff out the killer behind the case-of-the-week. With season 2 of the CBS show now back on the air, following a midseason hiatus, Elsbeth will have to problem-solve her way out of two dynamite situations that could make or break her: a high-profile legal case she worked on in Chicago being publicly relitigated, and a powerful (and evil) judge is keeping a close watch on her after she nearly identified him as the real killer in a case he oversaw.
