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Elsbeth and High Potential illustrate the enduring appeal of quirky crime-solving-TV comfort food.
They fell out of favor a little bit back when the prestige-television wave hit and every crime drama tried to sell itself as a ten-hour movie about a depressed person who smoked cigarettes while driving around town at night, but it’s still nice to have a mixture out there. The first is Elsbeth, a Good Wife spinoff that follows Carrie Preston’s Technicolor Chicago defense lawyer to New York City as she tags along on homicide investigations as part of a consent decree to keep an eye on the police. If you can wrangle the right ingredients — say, Carrie Preston and Wendell Pierce being charming together, Kaitlin Olson in a leopard-print jacket explaining the history of California’s freeway system, the episodic structure we discussed in the parenthetical up there, and fresh herbs and produce — you can have yourself a lovely little dinner.
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