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Elsbeth Recap: Don’t Duck This Up
Pamela Adlon as a homicidal restaurateur and the return of Laura Benanti’s supermodel? Yes, chef!
To a certain degree, I sympathize with Chef Veev ( Pamela Adlon, festooned with thematically appropriate fake tattoos and having a marvelous time ruining her on-screen underlings’ peace of mind) — being a restaurateur means keeping horrible hours, being in a state of near-constant anxiety over razor-thin profit margins, and living or dying by Yelp reviews and social media virality. Once again, quick thinking could save the day for our perpetrator: she swiftly deletes the video from Jordan’s phone, then bludgeons herself, hurls the cleaver into the industrial dishwasher, and dumps a full box of avocados on the floor, staging the scene to make it look as though they were both beaten by persons unknown. The remainder of the episode untangles the remaining threads of suspicion around Chef Veev; giving Elsbeth and Kaya more opportunities to engage in healthy, if not entirely resolved, conflict; a continuation of Captain Wagner’s side quest to improve morale and his own standing at the precinct in the wake of Lt. Connor’s negative findings so far in his auditing process, and most importantly, an opportunity to bring back former supermodel Nadine (Laura Benanti) to help get Elsbeth in the door at Chef Veev’s restaurant.
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