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Elsbeth Recap: Paying Attention Pays Off


Gina Gershon as a homicidal plastic surgeon? Bless this show.

It’s almost as if New York City’s would-be murderers have gotten wind that a slightly odd, very tenacious, unexpectedly incisive redhead is running around town in a series of great overcoats and colorful tote bags, foiling every attempt to get away with their dirty deeds. Dr. Olsen’s surgical techniques are subtle, but her marketing is not, and when she starts hawking skincare products and shapewear, suggesting that plastic surgeons should be subject to a mandatory retirement age, and bragging about her ability to make dissatisfied patients look the best they ever have, it pushes Dr. Holmes over the edge. Elsbeth, bless her inability not to ask questions, uses old-timey, analog technologies to chase down a better understanding of the paint-and-boot situation: phone calls to local hardware stores and pilfering the newspaper bundled for recycling that Dr. Holmes’s wife — a blameless and kind dancer named Carolyn (Holly James) — notes is a chore the good doctor has just taken off her plate.

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