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Critic Reviews
ColliderOct 13, 2025
Season 3 Review:
Our favorite police consultant is as "Elsbethy" as ever in the Season 3 premiere "Yes, And..." The episode is a microcosm of everything we love about the series, and Elsbeth (Carrie Preston) herself, and if there were any worries that Season 3 wouldn't be able to maintain the lofty standards set by the first two seasons, consider them dashed. "Yes, And..." is one of the series' best.
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iJul 22, 2024
Season 1 Review:
This is easy television: enjoyable, familiar and moreish. You can be gripped by the central crime while also fairly safe in the knowledge that the perpetrator will get their comeuppance and Elsbeth will come out on top. But as with all the Kings’ series, it’s executed with precision, wit and class, while Preston has pulled off the tricky balancing act of creating a loveable oddball who never verges into irritation.
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TV Guide MagazineApr 1, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Elsbeth may not make you die laughing, but you'll certainly smile. [1 - 21 Apr 2024, p.4]
Mar 1, 2024
Season 1 Review:
With Elsbeth, they’ve spun off a character from Chicago-based The Good Wife’s universe, Carrie Preston’s daffy but hyper-observant defense attorney Elsbeth Tascioni, and set her loose on New York City, and the results and the guest stars are as delightful as you might hope.
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Feb 28, 2024
Season 1 Review:
“The Good Wife” (also on CBS) was one of those prestreaming shows that demonstrated just how smart, sophisticated, subtle, sly and wickedly funny a network series could be, and they have imported those qualities into the more overtly comical, completely delightful “Elsbeth.”
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Feb 28, 2024
Feb 28, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Ms. Preston is delightful, but not to the point of being cloying. And though Elsbeth may percolate ceaselessly, happy waters in this case run deep: A viewer, always on her side, will still be kept wondering—not about whether she's right (we all learn who killed whom at the outset of an episode) but how she'll prove it. And how many skeptics she will leave sputtering in her wake.
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Feb 28, 2024
Season 1 Review:
You may be inclined to casually dismiss her as too flighty and frivolous. Butkeep watching—the show but also Preston’s masterful performance—and you’ll find a comfort watch the likes of which they don’t make that often anymore. Now let’s just hope the show, a rainy-day binge if there ever was one, gets renewed for plenty more seasons.
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Feb 29, 2024
Season 1 Review:
While waiting for an ensemble to emerge, you watch for the oddball parrying between Preston and the guest stars mostly playing characters who think it might be fun to toy with Elsbeth or play along with her until well past the point at which they should have recognized how formidable she is.
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Feb 27, 2024
Season 1 Review:
The premiere episode, with a story by “Good Wife” creators Michelle and Robert King and directed by Robert King, efficiently introduces new characters. Officer Kaya Blanke (Carra Patterson) warms up to Elsbeth’s quirky ways quickly and serves as a grounding force. NYPD Police Capt. C.W. Wagner (Wendell Pierce, always a welcome presence in any series) comes across as more of a wary ally.
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Feb 29, 2024The GuardianJul 23, 2024
Season 1 Review:
It’s clearly not intended to be anything like The Good Wife or The Good Fight. But it’s not charming enough to be the playful homage to the unsophisticated detective shows of yesteryear that it wants to be either. The most that can be said for it is that Elsbeth as a main character is about 50% less infuriating than she used to be.
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Feb 29, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Preston is as talented as they come, but she has little to work with here. Patterson and Pierce are given even less. This can’t be creatively fulfilling for anyone, with Elsbeth reduced to a collection of tics and unbridled enthusiasm. .... It’s baffling to see the Kings embrace such blatant copaganda.
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