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The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 94% approval rating with an average rating of 7.2/10, based on 31 critic reviews. The website's critics consensus reads, "Carrie Preston's standout character from The Good Wife makes for a great detective in this amiable and clever spinoff." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 71 out of 100 based on 15 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Cite error: There are <ref group=lower-alpha> tags or {{efn}} templates on this page, but the references will not show without a {{reflist|group=lower-alpha}} template or {{notelist}} template (see the help page).
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60 of 350 · most liked firstI love #Elsbeth. It’s such a cheerful show about murder.
positive · AI labelView post →NEW! Just revealed by Marvel, it’s my cover for STAR WARS: AHSOKA 8 featuring the final battle with Nightsister Elsbeth! This is the main cover, which nicely bookends the series since I also did the cover for No.1. Order cut-off Jan.13, out Feb. 19! Hope you enjoy!😃🔥 #starwars #ahsoka #marvelcomics
neutral · AI labelView post →The Six Best Murder Mystery Series Currently Running 6. Based on a True Story 5. Will Trent 4. White Lotus 3. Only Murders in the Building 2. Elsbeth 1. Poker Face
neutral · AI labelView post →Been rewatching the X Files series, and it's cool seeing actors who are more well known now than they were then. Seth Green is one episode. Wendell Pierce is in one. I love Pierce in the Wire, and he's been great in Elsbeth too.
neutral · AI labelView post →They must be REALLY confused by shows like Columbo or Elsbeth where the killer is revealed in the opening teaser and the show is about how the main character proves this.
neutral · AI labelView post →FIRST ON @vulture.com: Stephen Colbert will play a late-night host on what will likely be the season three premiere of ELSBETH on CBS. Will he be a murdered late-night host? Click for details! www.vulture.com/article/step...
neutral · AI labelView post →ELSBETH remains the best TV show you can watch with your mom and also the TV show that takes her side that you should’ve become a lawyer
positive · AI labelView post →SUPPORTING AHSOKA CHARACTER 1: We cannot let Morgan Elsbeth obtain the sphere SUPPORTING AHSOKA CHARACTER 2: For sure. By the way is she like from another show or something? Like an Arthurian show on Starz? SUPPORTING AHSOKA CHARACTER 1: What SUPPORTING AHSOKA CHARACTER 2: Hm?
neutral · AI labelView post →I have decided that I will no longer watch my favorite TV show Elsbeth anymore, because I value free speech, and I will not live in a fascist state. CBS just took Stephen Colbert away from me. I will take far more than that away from CBS when I tune in elsewhere. Shame on you, CBS.
negative · AI labelView post →True Blood, Claws, The Good Wife and now, finally, her own show. Carrie Preston is all hits, no skips. Also, #Elsbeth uses “consent decree” to upend the way police procedurals usually function as copaganda.
neutral · AI labelView post →CBS' new spinoff series Elsbeth is, improbably, "What if The Good Wife, but make it Columbo?" But Carrie Preston and the tried-and-true open mystery format make a good enough pairing. My review:
neutral · AI labelView post →Zach Lowe popping up in Your Friends And Neighbors is cool but now i need more crossovers like this give me Mina Kimes as a patient on The Pitt show me Mike Wilbon eating at The Bear let Jeff Passan murder a guy on Elsbeth
neutral · AI labelView post →Elsbeth is just a fucking fun show and I love her. 😍
positive · AI labelView post →through one episode i feel confident in saying that Cupertino -- the new CBS legal show from the creators of Elsbeth and The Good Wife where a small law firm takes on Silicon Valey one dipshit at a time -- is gonna be a weekly watch for me
neutral · AI labelView post →Good luck winning my mom is in half a dozen senior groups and has told them all whats happened to cbs and the plan is a collective tuning out. Sorry to the Elsbeth show I’m sure it was cute
neutral · AI labelView post →Elsbeth: hey gay boys and your mom here’s a show to bond over! We even gave you a struggling younger millennial gay to indentify with! Me: yeah I’m going to have to make this 54 year detective getting divorced my entire personality for a while sorry
neutral · AI labelView post →Watching the new episode of Elsbeth and it's Matthew Maher!
neutral · AI labelView post →Elsbeth leaning hard into “show gay guys watch with their moms” by casting Murray Hill and Alyssa Milano in the same episode
neutral · AI labelView post →SUPPORTING ACTOR SUNDAY #supportingactorsunday WENDELL PIERCE One of the great supporting actors of the current moment. Trained at Julliard, he first came to prominence as Detective Moreland in the HBO series THE WIRE. He currently appears in ELSBETH and plays Perry White in new SUPERMAN. 🎥\
neutral · AI labelView post →In case you missed it Friday evening, @vulture.com broke some news about a new gig for Stephen Colbert: He'll be playing a late-night host on the season premiere of CBS's murder mystery hit ELSBETH. If life imitates art, his character should probably watch his back. www.vulture.com/article/step...
neutral · AI labelView post →i havent met a single living person who watches Elsbeth and yet all its marketing would have me believe it’s the number one show in america
neutral · AI labelView post →Roommate is watching Elsbeth and every time they show her cute gay son I’m like, well we should be married
neutral · AI labelView post →Wow, what an incredible view of my shoulder and ear in episode 10 of Elsbeth this season
neutral · AI labelView post →#sussexsquad Wendell Pierece sticking up for his tv daughter on his new show Elsbeth.
neutral · AI labelView post →Elsbeth is a show seemingly designed for gay guys to watch with their moms which fits the idea that every streaming service gets their own Columbo
neutral · AI labelView post →Again - Elsbeth (the show) is fun and sweet. Watch it
positive · AI labelView post →How much does CBS dominate Thursdays now? Its least-watched show on the night (ELSBETH, with 4.3M same-day viewers) outdrew the MOST-watched shows on the other networks: 9-1-1 drew 4M; LAW & ORDER did 3.35M; HELL'S KITCHEN had 1.7M
neutral · AI labelView post →Google AI and Facebook doing all they can to convince fans of ELSBETH that there was no new episode tonight. Folks, there was a new episode tonight.
neutral · AI labelView post →TV Release Roundup, October 2025. | Name | Series | Date of Release | Platform | Genre(s) | Country of Origin | | ----------------------------------------------- | -------------- | ---------------- | ------------ | ----------------------------------------- | ----------------- | | RIV4LRIES | New Series | October 1, 2025 | Netflix | Drama…
neutral · AI labelView post →tonight on Elsbeth: Dianne Wiest as a murderous nun. it’s the show that keeps on giving.
positive · AI labelView post →An incredibly unserious show. #elsbeth
negative · AI labelView post →Oh! I almost forgot - Elsbeth is also Columbo. Same kind of howcatchem show, same kind of eccentric character who is always underestimated by the perps.
neutral · AI labelView post →Elsbeth’s premiere sees Stephen Colbert and Amy Sedaris at the center of a late-night show with a working environment so toxic that it inspires murder.
neutral · AI labelView post →Captain Wagner, #WendellPierce, uses Meghan Markle in a line just now on the CBS show #Elsbeth. #MeghanMarkle
neutral · AI labelView post →Elsbeth is really leaning into “show for millennial gay guys to watch with tier moms” with “Tracey Ulman plays a Cindy Adams-figure who had an affair with Augustine Pinochet that is plot relevant”
neutral · AI labelView post →We're finally watching Elsbeth, and I really like it. Really Marf, you like a show about a perky, perspicacitous femme who people don't take seriously to their detriment?
positive · AI labelView post →Having watched a few episodes of Elsbeth while looking for a needlepoint show, I do kind of love that her Columbo Quirk is “1-3 massive totes,” the lady equivalent of a rumpled trench coat
positive · AI labelView post →CBS airs ads during NFL broadcasts for a show called "Elsbeth," and the premise seems to be "what if a lady was annoying"
neutral · AI labelView post →Elsbeth being a Mom-coded show based entirely on having big bags
neutral · AI labelView post →Harry and Meghan are mentioned once more in Elsbeth show, emphasizing their ongoing influence.
neutral · AI labelView post →I generally don’t like procedurals but I’m very excited for the Elsbeth Tascioni Good Wife/Fight spinoff show.
positive · AI labelView post →My brain deeply believes Poker Face and Russian Doll are different seasons of the same show. It also believes episodes of Poker Face are episodes of Elsbeth that function like Murder, She Wrote episodes without Jessica Fletcher.
neutral · AI labelView post →Fire up your DVR and grab your tissues. Series finale of #YoungSheldon as well as #SoHelpMeTodd and new episodes of #LawAndOrder #911onABC and #Elsbeth
neutral · AI labelView post →I should watch Jeff Hiller’s HBO show someday, he was so good on Pluribus and now he’s so good on Elsbeth
neutral · AI labelView post →Learning about the show Elsbeth, which features an episode about a coach in a May-December relationship, and the Jordon Hudson character has the same name as a former QB for IU and Northwestern.
neutral · AI labelView post →watching the Elsbeth season 3 premiere, Stephen Colbert is playing a thinly veiled version of himself and Amy Sedaris is about to kill him, love this show
positive · AI labelView post →Elsbeth is the one “autism is a superpower” show I like because the superpower actually relates to being autistic (hyperfixating on the dumbest things)
positive · AI labelView post →Pre Order Now! We have 2 new Star Wars Shatterpoint Sets up for pre order today, both the first sets released based on the Ashoka Series. These allow you to bring a whole heap of evil with Baylan Skoll and Morgan Elsbeth. Take a look here: tychosgames.com/collections/... #starwars #shatterpoint
neutral · AI labelView post →A for *general* reference … this is the kind of *coding* you will see presented in these show: Columbo: - Autistic, potentially Plural Monk: - Autistic, openly Plural, PTSD, OCD Charlie: - Autistic Elsbeth: - AuDHD
neutral · AI labelView post →starting Elsbeth because I’m getting Kingspilled, excited for another show about that Big Apple that never sleeps, the greatest city in the world
positive · AI labelView post →Not even kidding, Elsbeth is one of the reasons I finally got an ADHD evaluation. Everybody said OH MARTHA YOU WILL LOVE THIS SHOW. Everybody was right, but it's a weird experience to see yourself on TV like that.
positive · AI labelView post →CBS renews 'NCIS' series, 'Matlock,' 'Elsbeth'
neutral · AI labelView post →In Tales of the Empire (a canonical animated limited series) we see Morgan Elsbeth full on dies and then is resurrected moments later by another Night Sister, who is also a ghost. It's implied that the Night Sisters have ghosts who live on pretty regularly on Dathomir.
neutral · AI labelView post →Colbert 💙 61, is staying put in the world of late-night after signing on as a guest star in the CBS series “Elsbeth,” Vulture reports. He will play the fictional host on “Way Late with Scotty Bristol” in the network’s spinoff of the hit series “The Good Wife.” share.newsbreak.com/edj0c0zp?s=i16
neutral · AI labelView post →Rich era for the Columbo mystery show genre with kooky protags. Both Poker Face and Elsbeth. Great stuff
positive · AI labelView post →Oh! I've been meaning to say: you might want to check out a series called Elsbeth (based on a character originally in 'The Good Wife'). It's very watchable and harks back massively to Columbo (murder in a bathtub by food blender anyone?) Strong recommend! #ColumboTV
positive · AI labelView post →#Elsbeth was on auto play after the show I was watching. It's amusing! I'm in!
positive · AI labelView post →I am really enjoying the series Elsbeth. Like, so much 🩷
positive · AI labelView post →Now watching Elsbeth for spooky season. [Wait, it's a quirky detective series, exactly how does this fit in for Hallo-] BECAUSE I ENJOY THIS SERIES SO MUCH THAT IT'S SCARY and now i have to lie down for i am spent 📺
positive · AI labelView post →but WHEN will the third series of Elsbeth come to the UK (maternity leave problems)
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