‘Elsbeth’ Star Carrie Preston Says Season 2 Finds the Crime-Solving Lawyer on ‘Shaky Ground’

Note: This story contains spoilers from the “Elsbeth” Season 2 premiere.

Elsbeth Tascioni is back and on the case of a peeved opera fan who stabs an annoying audience member to death in the Season 2 premiere of the CBS series “Elsbeth,” while facing a major roadblock from within the NYPD precinct she now calls home in the form of a strict new lieutenant (Daniel K. Isaac of “Billions”).

Carrie Preston, who has played the lawyer-turned-sleuth for 14 years across “The Good Wife” and “The Good Fight”and now her own series...