Elsbeth Showrunner Teases Character’s Return to Her The Good Wife Roots in Season 2

Elsbeth ’s season 1 is now officially over after the final episode aired a couple of weeks ago, and the upcoming second installment does promise some big changes in the character’s career.

Coming as a spinoff to the 2009 political drama show The Good Wife, Elsbeth follows the eponymous character who originally was seen working as a lawyer in Chicago, but now she shows up again in a quite different position as a private investigator helping the NYPD solve crimes in Big Apple.

Now that Elsbeth has finally proved that her quirky work methods are definitely a key to the local police department’s success in catching criminals, the second season is likely to bring Elsbeth back to something she’s more familiar with.

Following the first season finale, Elsbeth showrunner Jonathan Tolins revealed that the crew had already come up with some ideas for the upcoming second installment, though not all of them had eventually passed the first test. According to Tolins, “at one point, we talked about there being a murder and Wagner being arrested for it, and Elsbeth having defending him at the beginning of season 2,” but such a suggestion went in a big contrast to what the show was supposed to focus on.

As now the show aims at proving that Elsbeth is able to make a career shift and become a successful private investigator, the courtroom isn’t the first thing to consider for the storyline, though Tolins still admitted that the character might be brought back to her attorney roots in season 2.

As the showrunner put it, the crew has “a fun idea of possibly bringing her back into a courtroom, but not necessarily in the same way we’ve seen her before.”

Speaking about the character’s possible return to her former position shown in The Good Wife, Elsbeth’s actress Carrie Preston also suggested that something like this would become a clear proof that Elsbeth had a big personal development over the years as she quit her previous job “because she really didn’t want to be defending people who’d done things that were wrong.”

The actress also added that Elsbeth’s present doesn’t erase her past and her “extraordinary skills as a lawyer.” As Preston later put it, “maybe there will be some case coming up where a lawyer has committed a crime or something like that and she can really use her background. That would be a really fun world.”

Elsbeth’s season 2 is set to arrive at CBS this fall.