Following plenty of Season 1 buzz, Emmy Award winner Michael Emerson (Evil, Lost) has officially joined the CBS series Elsbeth for the show’s second season in a recurring role. He will star opposite his wife Carrie Preston, who plays the titular attorney in the latest The Good Wife spinoff.
Season 2 premiered on October 17 and airs new episodes on Thursday nights at 10 p.m. ET/PT. Emerson will debut in the episode airing on Thursday, December 12 on CBS and streaming on Paramount+.
Carrie Preston and Michael Emerson attend Paramount+’s “Evil” special screening at Whitby Hotel Theater on May 14, 2024, in New York City.
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On Sunday, the news was revealed during Elsbeth‘s panel at New York Comic Con. Panelists included co-creators and executive producers Robert and Michelle King, showrunner and executive producer Jonathan Tolins and cast members Carrie Preston and Wendell Pierce. Emerson joined them on stage to share the news himself.
The series follows Elsbeth Tascioni, the astute but unconventional consent decree attorney working with the NYPD to catch New York’s most well-heeled murderers utilizing her unique point of view. Season 2 of the critically acclaimed series brings new cases and challenges when mistakes of the past come back to haunt Elsbeth, her boss Captain Wagner (Pierce) and detective-in-training Officer Kaya Blanke (Carra Patterson).
Emerson and Preston’s characters will be foils. He portrays Judge Milton Crawford, a haughty, soft-spoken and bespectacled man from an old New England family of public servants who sees his place in the nation’s elite as a birthright.
Elsbeth is based on the character featured in The Good Wife and The Good Fight. Robert King, Michelle King, Jonathan Tolins, Liz Glotzer, Erica Shelton Kodish, Bryan Goluboff and Gail Barringer serve as executive producers. The series is distributed by Paramount Global Content Distribution.
