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ELSBETH – Review by Susan Granger

September 30, 2024October 1, 2024 Susan Granger Carra Patterson, Carrie Preston, Elsbeth, Nathan Lane, paramount, series, Wendell Pierce

A spinoff of The Good Wife and The Good Fight, Elsbeth stars Carrie Preston as scene-stealing Elsbeth Tascioni, an astute but decidedly unconventional lawyer-turned-investigator who makes oddball observations and corners elusive criminals. Bizarrely dressed as a tourist with a foam Statue of Liberty crown, giddily sunny Elsbeth arrives on the job, relying on her disarmingly naïve demeanor to disguise her legal acumen. Skeptically greeted by Capt. C.W. Wagner (Wendell Pierce), she’s befriended by NYPD officer Kaya Blanke (Carra Patterson) and soon proves her worth in this police procedural.

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THE GILDED AGE Season 2 – Review by Susan Granger

February 2, 2024February 5, 2024 Susan Granger Carrie Coon, christine baranski, cynthia nixon, Donna Murphy, hbo max, julian fellowes, Nathan Lane, series, The Gilded Age season 2

The second season of Julian Fellowes’ genteel, rococo soap-opera known as The Gilded Age finds ambitious 19th century NYC aristocrats dressed in bustles and top hats. Ambition meets its match as traditional customs collide with innovative schemes, proving that when the old rules don’t bend, something has to break, And since much of the filming took place in and around New York and Rhode Island, more than 60 of Broadway’s brightest musical stars comprise the cast, giving it a frivolous upstairs/downstairs aura – like ‘Downton Abbey Lite.’