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Elsbeth Season-Finale Recap: Ramen Holiday
Getting to revisit Elsbeth’s personal rogues’ gallery is well worth her having to go to prison.
Through a clever and economical set of introductions via a perp walk taking Elsbeth to her cell in the Midtown Detention Center’s women’s wing, we get reacquainted with Stephen Moyer as the lecherous theatre director Alex Modarian, Mary-Louise Parker as the fraudulent minimalist Freya Frostad, Alyssa Milano as the mafia princess Pupetta Del Ponte, Arian Moayed as the self-appointed male ally and mixologist Joe Dillion, Gina Gershon as plastic surgeon Vanessa Holmes, Rhetta as matchmaker extraordinaire Margot Clark, Elizabeth Lail as scammy tech entrepreneur Quinn Powers, and André De Shields as fashion designer Mateo Hart. When Elsbeth and Officer Rocco Bellini (Geoffrey Allen Murphy), who idolizes Captain Wagner and dreams of getting hired to serve as one of New York’s Finest, discover Modarian’s body, she can’t help noticing a very particular aroma wafting up from the still-hot bowl of ramen. Nobody’s alibi is ironclad, and there are the complications of no cameras in the laundry room, kitchen, or library, but after Elsbeth speaks with her suspects and collects other small details, her unconscious goes to work, furnishing us with a dream ballet — their very own version of Chicago ’s “ Cell Block Tango ”, in which the (alleged!!)
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