Elsbeth could also be winding down within the 2024 TV schedule, however the hit CBS drama has a long-awaited deal with in retailer for followers on this week’s episode. Michael Emerson, main girl Carrie Preston’s real-life husband and a TV star in his personal proper, debuts as Milton Crawford within the new episode on December 12. He is not approaching board as a one-off killer like Nathan Lane’s character or as one other fireman with eyes for Elsbeth, however a decide who Preston described as “virtually untouchable.” The actress spoke with CinemaBlend to hype her husband’s arrival, and I am already completely happy that Emerson will probably be again for extra.
Michael Emerson’s casting was introduced again in October, only a couple months after he’d speculated about what sort of visitor character he’d prefer to play on Elsbeth. Followers should tune in to the brand new episode, referred to as “One Offended Girl,” to see Choose Crawford in motion, however the character needs to be an ideal match for the actor. Forward of the 2024 TV schedule, Carrie Preston confirmed that the function was written by the Elsbeth staff for the Misplaced and Evil alum, telling me:
They knew they wished to make use of him in a roundabout way. I imply, who would not? I feel they’d be desirous to get Michael Emerson on the present, even when he wasn’t married to me. However there was the added incentive to deliver on the title character’s husband, maintain her completely happy. [laughs] They have been simply looking for the fitting function for that, and so they wished to search out one thing that wasn’t only a one and accomplished. They wished to search out one thing that may have somewhat bit extra of an impression because the season goes on.
Sure, as a substitute of dropping out and in like different visitor stars, Michael Emerson goes to recur in Season 2 because the decide. Elsbeth will encounter the character in “One Offended Girl” when she’s summoned to jury responsibility and positioned on a homicide trial to face off with the decide who seems to be fairly troublesome.
With this being Elsbeth we’re speaking about, it looks as if a protected guess that there is much more to Crawford than meets the attention. It additionally is perhaps unfortunate timing for Elsbeth herself after her son Teddy got here to city, although! (You will discover Teddy’s debut episode streaming with a Paramount+ subscription now.) Preston went on:
They mapped it out whereas they have been planning the entire second season with the hopes that Michael was going to be out there to do it! [laughs] And by chance, he was. I feel it is an excellent function, and he clearly is great in it.
Michael Emerson wrapped his run on Evil again in August with that present’s sequence finale, so maybe the top of 1 present is what opened him as much as recur on one other. In a enjoyable twist, Emerson was nominated for a Critics Alternative Award for Finest Supporting Actor in a Drama Collection for his work on Evil simply hours earlier than I spoke with Carrie Preston about Elsbeth.
So, with Choose Crawford seemingly rising as an antagonist of kinds for Elsbeth, what is going to she make of him as a person? I requested Carrie Preston that very query, and he or she shared:
She isn’t used to not understanding easy methods to catch a killer, and so that is one thing new for her. To have the ability to see that has been actually enjoyable, to see her in a state of affairs that she’s type of met her match. She additionally hasn’t gone up in opposition to anyone that has that type of authorized energy. Being a decide, as we all know in the true world, is nearly untouchable, and so it’ll be onerous for her to deliver anyone like that down. I feel that is going to be actually enjoyable to observe.
Again in her The Good Spouse and The Good Battle days, Elsbeth Tascioni was working as a lawyer reasonably than residing in New York to implement the consent decree for the NYPD. It needs to be attention-grabbing to see if her authorized experience comes into play when going through off in opposition to a decide greater than in her ordinary day-to-day investigations with Wagner, Kaya, and the remainder. For now, take a look at the promo for “One Offended Girl” as Michael Emerson’s first episode:
Tune in to CBS on Thursday, December 12 at 10 p.m. ET for the “One Offended Girl” episode of Elsbeth, which may even characteristic Ben Levi Ross’ return as Teddy. The episode airs instantly after the autumn finale of Matlock, and Carrie Preston defined earlier this 12 months why she thinks Elsbeth and Matlock pair so properly on Thursday nights. If you wish to revisit earlier episodes of The Good Spouse spinoff, you are able to do so with a Paramount+ subscription now.