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KATHRYN FLETT'S My TV week: It's Midsomer Murders in Manhattan
UK writer Kathryn Flett reviews Elsbeth. Played by Carrie Preston, Elsbeth, who first appeared in The Good Wife which ran from 2009-2016, has been given her own spin-off show set in New York.
Yup, the blueprint is Columbo, while the genre’s most recent incarnation was Sky’s Poker Face, in which Natasha Lyonne played a quirky, chaotic, amusingly socially inept casino waitress with an idiosyncratic dress sense and a near-psychic ability to spot liars. The first episode introduced an exaggerated (at least to those of us who already ‘know’ her) version of the affectedly naive Elsbeth, playing a gauche tourist in the Big Apple and disarming the villain, Alex (Stephen Moyer) – and it’s no spoiler to say that he was the token Brit, because the English are always the baddies in US dramas. Having already established the regular characters (including Wendell Pierce as NYPD Captain Wagner and Carra Patterson as savvy cop Kaya Blanke) this was more fun, involving a high-end Manhattan real estate battle.
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