Lana Condor | Elsbeth

 

• Genre: Police procedural, Comedy drama
• Created by: Robert King, Michelle King
• Starring: Carrie Preston, Carra Patterson, Wendell Pierce
• Composers: Siddhartha Khosla, Garrett Gonzales
• No. of seasons: 3
• No. of episodes: 40
• Executive producers: Jonathan Tolins, Liz Glotzer, Robert King, Michelle King, Bryan Goluboff, Erica Shelton, Gail Barringer
• Producer: Carrie Preston
• Running time: 43 minutes
• Production companies: Nemorino Productions, King Size Productions, CBS Studios
• Network: CBS
• Release: February 29, 2024 – present

The series focuses on the offbeat Elsbeth Tascioni, an unconventional but astute attorney who, after a successful career in Chicago, uses her singular point of view to make unique observations and corner criminals alongside the NYPD. Ostensibly assigned by the United States Department of Justice to oversee a monitorship or consent decree after some controversial arrests, her real mission initially (revealed over the course of the first season) is to investigate Captain C. W. Wagner for corruption. Most episodes use the inverted detective story format.

"Basket Case"

Elsbeth goes from the squad room to the locker room when a campus murder rocks the world of college basketball after an athletic director winds up dead following a heated confrontation with his basketball coach's 22-year-old girlfriend.