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Carrie Preston first played Elsbeth Tascioni in a guest role on The Good Wife in 2010 and won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress for the role in 2013 — making the character’s eventual series lead a vindication more than a decade in the making.
The show uses an “inverted mystery” format inspired by Columbo, showing the murderer committing the crime at the start of each episode, which allows the creators to focus entirely on character and wit rather than plot mechanics.
Robert and Michelle King, creators of The Good Wife, wrote a cameo-friendly universe into Elsbeth from the start, with each episode’s guest villain designed to attract a high-profile actor willing to play a charming, remorseless killer for one week.
Elsbeth is a delightfully offbeat crime procedural on Paramount+ and CBS, spinning off from The Good Wife and The Good Fight to give fan-favorite attorney Elsbeth Tascioni her own starring vehicle. Carrie Preston reprises the role with infectious energy, playing a seemingly scatterbrained Chicago attorney relocated to New York City to provide oversight of the NYPD — while secretly being one of the sharpest minds in the room.
The show operates in the tradition of Columbo, presenting each episode’s crime and killer upfront, then watching Elsbeth methodically unravel the truth through a combination of genuine brilliance and disarming eccentricity. Her suspects perpetually underestimate her, making each reveal all the more satisfying as her warm, wide-eyed persona gives way to razor-sharp deduction.
Elsbeth has attracted a parade of acclaimed guest stars — including Cynthia Nixon, Wendell Pierce, and Jesse Tyler Ferguson — each playing the killer in a self-contained story. The series has become one of CBS’s most beloved procedurals, earning Carrie Preston a well-deserved Emmy nomination and a passionate fan following hungry for each new mystery.
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