Welcome to Elsbeth season three, dear readers! Don’t worry about the funky scheduling of a Sunday season premiere; the show is returning to its usual Thursday-night slot starting this week, so you can look forward to both normalcy and a second episode and recap before you look around.
Elsbeth often explores workplaces as spaces where tensions and resentments bubble over, and it goes for a big one in the season premiere as this week’s murder victim, Scotty Bristol, is a successful late-night host/miserable human being played by outgoing host of The Late Show and national treasure Stephen Colbert. Scotty is a real prince: He’s nasty and ungracious to his staff, doesn’t bother to prepare for interviews with his guests, and torments his writers by making sure they can see and hear him sh