‘Elsbeth’ Is the Quirky New ‘Columbo’ We Didn’t Know We Needed

Elsbeth, the new procedural premiering Thursday night on CBS, is the second official spinoff of the Emmy-winning legal drama The Good Wife. It follows The Good Fight, the sequel series of sorts that ended in 2022 after six seasons of ripped-from-headlines cases and Christine Baranski looking glorious in designer power blazers.

Like The Good Fight, Elsbeth stars a fan-favorite character originally introduced 14 years ago in the first season of The Good Wife: Elsbeth Tascioni, an unconventional and often underestimated attorney played by Carrie Preston, who won an Emmy for the role in 2013.

When it comes to their love of spinoffs, “we’ll be down to the smallest character by the end,” Robert King, who co-created all three series with his wife, Michelle, tells The Daily Beast’s Obsessed, laughing. “Next it will be David Paymer’s judge,” he jokes, referencing the character that appeared in The Good Wife’s pilot. “It will just be Gus!, with an exclamation point.”

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