'Elsbeth' Season 2 Review - Same Upbeat Energy, New Stakes

Carrie Preston in the poster for Elsbeth Season 2

One of the biggest surprises of the last TV season had to be CBS's procedural crime drama Elsbeth. The subject matter, mixed with its initial billing as a spin-off of The Good Wife, initially suggested a series very similar in tone to the other spin-off of the hit drama, The Good Fight. Instead, what we got was a refreshing, upbeat, borderline comedic take on the murder mystery.

Like most episodes in the first season, save the finale, the episode kicks off with the murder taking place, and with the perpetrator known to the audience right away. Though this method of mystery storytelling is by no means unique to Elsbeth, it's still rare enough, especially in procedural TV, to make the entire series a breath of fresh air.

'Elsbeth' Season 2 Shakes Up the Emotional Stakes When a series sets itself up with both time-sensitive stakes and premise, as it goes on, the challenge becomes about heightening those stakes enough to not feel contrived and to keep the audience invested in said premise.

And then as always, there's the star of the show herself, Carrie Preston. Elsbeth's relentless positivity in another actor's hands would run the risk of being just this side of too much. But as portrayed by Preston, she is a ray of sunshine that continues to shine brightly in the first episode and will hopefully continue to do so in the rest of the season. With the premiere so brilliantly kicking things off, Elsbeth fans are sure to be in for a treat as the series airs this fall.

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