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Elsbeth Recap: Ultrawealthy, Ultraviolence?
Sure, Elsbeth is at her very lowest moment, but you can’t keep a brilliant woman with a great fashion sense down for too long.
Elsbeth is such a fun show — the bold and bright costumes, the cheeky humor, the parade of notable guest stars, the warmth of friendships — that it can be easy to miss the bleaker themes thrumming along below its sprightly surface. It’s hard not to read some post-2024 presidential election vibes in moments like this, and “I’ve Got a Little List” offers proof positive that Elsbeth exists in our current electoral politics reality, as ICE agent Wes McCarthy (Ben Horner) mentions that his investigation of the murder of Lichtenburg’s Crown Prince Wilhelm von Hofer “takes precedence over the situation in Greenland.” Back at the office, Elsbeth and Kaya chafe at being forced to take seriously Agent McCarthy’s equally casual sexism about the “angry feminists” of Lichtenburg’s Crown Free Movement and his many assumptions about their propensity to violence, an alleged plan to murder Prince Wilhelm in the U.S., and their use of a “lady gun.” Ugh!
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