“Elsbeth” from The Good Wife & The Good Fight now has her own show

I’ve had sufficient- of the divine Carrie Preston as this character and those hack showrunners.

Can't watch the trailer in my region, but I've always thought she only worked in (really) small doses and found her grating when she started featuring more on TGF, so I winced when I heard this show was announced.

Much like with all clown roles, this is going to be very Marmite-y.

R2 I loved her and felt she was the best character.

I did too... when she popped in here and there. As soon as her role was expanded for a while, she immediately became too much for me.

I like her. Her character is sort of like a female Monk. This is refreshing. So tired of seeing sociopathic antiheroes.

Love her. She is a one woman Rube Goldberg machine.

Lemme guess, kooky with a touch of aspie?

Trailer came out in May and the first episode is in February, what's up with that?

Stephen Moyer in a bit part, not even listed among the main cast on the IMDb page is also strange. Well, him working again just in general is strange. Which reminds me, I think we're gonna need an Anna Paquin WHET thread soon.

Anna Paquin had a show called Flack for a couple of seasons, and was in a good Peacock miniseries last year called A Friend of the Family with Colin Hanks and Jake Lacy.

R8 no. We don’t. She was on tv not long ago.

Stephen Moyer is probably just a guest star.

R8 it was postponed because of the strikes. It’s like you forgot that situation lasted months and got tons of shows and movies postponed or cancelled

On shows that no one watched.

Oh, the irony of a poster who makes fully a third of all DL threads saying a WHET thread isn't needed.

R11 that makes no sense. No actors were allowed to work throughout the strike except those who were not under SAG (mostly foreign actors) or unless they got the green light to work, which were very few.

Let me guess, you didn’t understand what was going on during the strikes? You never understand the most basic of things so it wouldn’t shock me.

R12 Muriel knows who is making all the threads, and it isn’t me. ☕️ maybe you should sit in silence. Time to grow up and gain some self awareness.

Agree: She was refreshing in small doses, especially on the much more serious The Good Wife. The Good Fight went completely off the rails, which was odd because with Christine Baranski they could have turned it into an insanely strong show.

But the Kings (the writers couple) can only carry the same concept for so long, before veering into Ryan Murphy territory.

She’s great in big doses too

R8, the trailer was created for the network to start selling ad time for their fall schedule.

Then you May have heard something about a strike and how things are just now going back into production. The show hadn’t started filming before the strikes.

I like her and her hubby. Speaking of her hubby is “Evil” coming back? Really interesting show.

I am excited for this one.

A modern Miss Marple.

When does it premier?

February 29th r20. It’s 10 episodes.

I hate that Cable/streamers have taken to make everything a 10 episode limited series.

Ugh.

I, too miss a 20+ episode season.

R23 especially with “sitcoms”. The Bear is like eight 25-30 minute episodes. That is not a season.

R20, it’s premiere.

She was such a needed ray of light in The Holdovers.

So true, r26.

I stay in the same hotel every time I go to NYC, and I’ve seen her and her husband, together and separately, a few times. They must live in the area.

[quote]The Bear is like eight 25-30 minute episodes. That is not a season.

I have sufficient.

Vanity Fair piece

I’m excited to watch. Loved her on the shows.

Oh no I just started a thread on how awful it looks and this thread came to the top.

Hi, Carrie, didn't know you posted here.

r32 I bitched about her character and the show upthread, but was overruled by other posters. Guess the gays love Elsbeth!

Premieres tomorrow

A little bit of this goes a long, long way.

Wasn't very good. I liked Alan Cummings in his NYPD adjunct better.

[quote] I liked Alan Cummings

Oh, dear.

Danny Mastrogiorgio (Det. Smullen) was born to play Richard Nixon.

Was Stephen Moyer sort of stunt casting since Carrie Preston was a regular on "True Blood?"

r37, it was an autocorrect, I always think I am wrong.

Elsbeth's style of detecting resembles Columbo's, I think--toying with the suspect and annoying them until they're trapped. Nothing groundbreaking but a pleasant diversion.

This would have been a perfect show for Jack Cassidy, my favorite special guest star villain.

In the age of streaming, is there an actor that always pops up as the baddy in comedies, dramas, dramedies?

I liked the show. It's entertaining to watch how she pieces the cases together. I think it has promise if the audience doesn't get tired of her.

They got tired of Columbo and he was a Detective.

Never liked Carrie Preston. She’s one of those tic-y stage actresses.

Mary Tyler Murder!

It’s one of those shows I can watch if I have to. At first I thought it was going to be a Philomena Cunk clone.

Linda Lavin got murdered. What's not to like?

Does Linda Lavin get to sing the theme song?

"Used to be autistic... used to be shy...

Funniest thing the saddest part

Was Elsbeth never knew why..."