Pain in the ass in New York – lawyer “Elsbeth” with her own series

Drama, baby! Peter Florrick, the chief prosecutor of Cook County, had followed his wife, Alicia, into the street despite electronic home monitoring to ask her to please – please do not leave it. The alarm immediately went off in the apartment, which called the police to the scene, and his son Zack staged a skateboarding accident with the monitoring system to save Dad from being arrested. Enter: lawyer Elsbeth Tascioni (Carrie Preston) – friendly, cheerful, maybe a little too happy-go-lucky. By the end of her five-minute debut near the end of the first season of “The Good Wife,” she had not only saved the Florricks, but also blamed Zack’s “accident” on the officer deleted police who implemented the search system. A cable clamp would be installed every 30 centimeters. “Cable clamp. Very little. But useful.”

Julianna Margolies, Alicia Florrick’s actress and the star of the series, made an amazing appearance. “I have to remember this,” it should mean. And the “Good Wife” audience was completely on her side.

Elsbeth brought comedy to legal drama “The Good Wife”

Cable clamp gaps – Elsbeth knows something like that. And she appeared again and again in Robert and Michelle King’s “The Good Wife” and several times in the spinoff “The Good Fight”. People liked her outgoing nature, because she said “Hi!” animatedly to the judge’s greeting, “Your Honor.” People loved the way they panicked when the judge suddenly put his hand on the table. She enjoyed Elsbeth’s funny test statements like “I don’t want to be melodramatic, but – thing!” How she won the trial with the same smile that made her opponent see her as a simpleton. Carrie Preston was more of a comedic side in the unpopular “recurring role” of Elsbeth, but she clearly brought some comedy to the legal drama.

And so the publication of the “Elsbeth” series was a joy for the fans of the franchise. And although it would be an exaggeration to talk about a crime gem when there is only one episode to watch, the pilot film still raises high expectations. Preston, who attracted the attention of cinema audiences with Woody Allen’s “Vicky Cristina Barcelona” (2008) and was already known to fans of the vampire series “True Blood” (2008-14), a making full use of her understated charm right from the start.

I want to experience New York up close!

Elsbeth Tascioni on the deck of a tourist bus in sub-zero temperatures

Here you can see her in her own suite on the promenade deck of a double-decker tourist bus in New York – enthralled by the glitz and bustle of Times Square. A little girl’s pink coat and Miss Liberty crown are made of foam when a rapping bus tour leader tries in vain to get her to move to the basement of the vehicle in temperatures two degrees below zero. “I want to experience New York up close!” And: “I think New York is so great! ”You already know: New York will also be caught in this mix of creatures and tricks. As it was in Chicago, where Elsbeth practiced as a lawyer for 30 years.

Elsbeth should keep an eye on the NYPD

In the Big Apple, Elsbeth works as an outside observer for the Department of Justice to find out if everything is going well at the New York Police Department (NYPD). There have been alleged illegal arrests at the Major Cases Unit. Captain Wagner (Wendell Pierce) is politely negative towards the smiling, groaning, strange controlling authority, Detective Smullen (Danny Mastrogiorgio) plays the men-can’t-women card and just the policewoman Kaya Blanke (who also suffers from the terror of men in the station) (Cara Pattersson) discovers the true potential of the chickpea.

I don’t know anyone who blows their teeth right before they kill themselves.

Elsbeth Tascioni discovers the criminal in herself

“This is my first crime scene ever! She looks into the medicine cabinet of the dead woman, only to realize that she is not sure if it was suicide by pills. “I don’t know anyone who blows their teeth right before they kill themselves. And when she inserted her diaphragm, it was very likely that she would expect men to visit.”

Not a crime thriller who did it? Unlike Elsbeth and the NYPD people, we as viewers know who Olivia’s murderer is. The theater director and acting teacher is Alex Modarian, who is played by Preston’s “True Blood” colleague Stephen Moyer. “The wider you make your legs, the bigger the roles,” a former ensemble member told her former boss. A different young actress is pushed every six months.

Elsbeth is as successful as a criminal as she is as a lawyer

Elsbeth is like “Columbo”, the Struwwelinspektor played by Peter Falk, whose crumpled look and absent-mindedness (“I have one more question…”) made the murderers arrogant and reckless. Elsbeth also disappears, only to reappear at Modarian’s a moment later. Gives you compliments and gifts, makes you nervous, shows some introspection (“I’m weird when I drink”), and then confronts the suspect with another piece of evidence. The noose tightens, and in the end Elsbeth is as successful with her nervous circuit as a drag-and-drop criminal as she was as a lawyer and – importantly for her real work – she is also experienced the speed of the New York police. satisfied with a person who is apparently guilty. Are you in a hurry to the case files?

“They’re not looking,” Elsbeth already told the police in Chicago when she appeared on “The Good Wife”. With her own series, which is both episodic, ie releasing an issue of the week, as well as hints at larger story arcs and character developments (as we know from the previous series), if you watch closely, the audience will grow quickly. loved her as a leading person. We wish this lady a long life in the series with her collection of tote bags and pussy bow blouses. “I enjoyed our little skirmishes,” she tells her opponent, who still has a sword hanging in his heart.

And so is her audience.

“Elsbeth”, the first season, ten episodes, by Robert and Michelle King, with Carrie Preston, Carra Patterson, Wendell Pierce, Danny Mastrogiorgio, Danny McCarthy, Gloria Reuben, Fredric Lehne, Molly Price, Stephen Moyer, Keegan-Michael Key, Jesse Tyler Ferguson (from August 6 on forward). Wow and Sky Go)