ANDlsbeth It is everything except a dark and serious police. From today, Monday 23 June, at 9:20 pm on Rai 2 the second season will be broadcast with the first two episodes. It is the American Crime series that has subverted all the rules of the genre with Carrie Preston in the role of the protagonist.
Elsbeth Previews: the second season arrives on Rai 2 from 23 June
After a brilliant career in Chicago, Elsbeth arrives in New York where he puts his clinical eye definitely out of the box, at the service of the police. Thanks to its lightning intuitions, it manages to find clues hidden in the most banal details. As It embeds the criminals that no one can unmask.
All episodes, on TV and streaming
With its eccentric style, the brilliant tone and a protagonist completely out of the box, The series that debuted last year in Italy in the United States arrived in February 2025, always on Rai 2. The first season of Elsbeth It was made up of ten episodes, which for the second doubled. On Rai 2, every Monday in the early evening, two weeks will be broadcast, from today until 25 August. All episodes are also available in streaming on Raiplaysimultaneously on the broadcast on television and subsequently, on demand.
Carrie Preston is Elsbeth Tascioni, Carra Patterson is Kaya Blanke (Photo by Michael Parmelee/CBS via Getty Images)
Elsbeth Tascioni’s return: more cases, more chaos
Conceived by Robert and Michelle King, former creators of The good wife And The Good Fightthe series is the second spin-off dedicated to the Alicia Florrick universe (played by Julianna Margulies). At the center is Elsbeth Tascioni, an extravagant but brilliant lawyer. Carrie Preston won Emmy for this role.
Elsbeth from The good wife to a series of its own
Elsbeth Tascioni got known in The good wifewhere he played a recurring role much loved by the public. He later appeared in five episodes of the spin-off The Good Fight.
Now, in his personal series, Elsbeth uses his unique point of view to make observations out of the ordinary And put the criminals to the narrow, collaborating with the New York police in increasingly intricate cases.
Elsbeth as Lieutenant Columbus
The series adopts the formula “Howcatchem”: the identity of the culprit is shown immediatelybut the heart of the story is all in the “how” Elsbeth manages to fit it out. A structure like that of the historic show Lieutenant Columbus which rewards the ingenuity rather than the twist.
The cast and the many guest stars
Next to Carrie Preston there is Carra Patterson in the role of the detective Kaya Blanke, and Wendell Pierce is captain CW Wagner. Fredric Lehne wears the uniform of Lieutenant Noonan and Danny Mastrogiorgio is the Detective Smullen.
There is no shortage of important guest stars: From Gina Gershon to Vanessa Williams, from Matthew Broderick to Alyssa Milano.
What happens tonight in the first two episodes of the second season
In the double episode, Elsbeth is broadcast today, it is struggling with two new cases worthy of his fame. In “Subscribe to the murder”, a financial broker dies stabbed after an evening at the Opera Elsbeth suspects of a Melomane exasperated by a mobile phone that ruined the show.
In “wrong stuff”, a billionaire dies during a spatial simulation. An accident? Perhaps. But Elsbeth suspects that behind there is another magnate with the poisoned tooth and the dream (broken) to become astronaut.