EXCLUSIVE: CBS‘ Elsbeth is gearing up to introduce the latest addition to its recurring cast, Michael Emerson, who will play a foe unlike any the show’s titular heroine has ever faced.
On December 12 at 10 p.m. in the Season 2 episode titled, “One Angry Woman,” Emerson’s character, the unusually difficult Judge Milton Crawford, has the pleasure of meeting Carrie Preston‘s Elsbeth, a brilliant legal mind who ends up in his courtroom when she becomes a true New Yorker by serving jury duty.
The murder trial easily nudges Elsbeth—currently working as a consultant for the NYPD— back into lawyer mode, a throwback to the character’s The Good Wife years.
Unfortunately for Crawford, Legal Eagle Elsbeth is fierce and will cause unnecessary headaches for him. Deadline has your first look at Preston and Emerson, who have been married irl for nearly three decades, in Elsbeth.
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