Elsbeth Season-Finale Recap: Ramen Holiday

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If we’re looking at Elsbeth’s second season finale purely from a plot function-oriented perspective, it wraps up one major plotline — Kaya Blanke’s journey from competent but coasting beat officer to rising star among the ranks of NYPD detectives — while giving viewers a reunion between Elsbeth and a bunch of the killers she and Kaya have foiled over the first two seasons. Kaya’s promotion to an elite task force based at another precinct means that Carra Patterson...