I was so excited finding this show - Elsbeth was a favourite of mine on Good Wife - and the first episode lived up to my internal hype. Unfortunately now on ep3 and it's clear the show is going to be overly formulaic.
The audience knows who the killer is early on so there's no mystery. We get to enjoy Carrie Preston's endearing and insightful way of deducing and announcing said deductions to the guilty one - played by the only vaguely familiar actor - who then begrudgingly see's her as a worthy adversary.
The police then pause long enough from telling her she's 'simply there to observe' to realise lo and behold she's been right all along! However by next week they'll have gone back to dismissing her theories and going after the obviously too obvious suspect.
As far as this formula goes, this show does it well.
The audience knows who the killer is early on so there's no mystery. We get to enjoy Carrie Preston's endearing and insightful way of deducing and announcing said deductions to the guilty one - played by the only vaguely familiar actor - who then begrudgingly see's her as a worthy adversary.
The police then pause long enough from telling her she's 'simply there to observe' to realise lo and behold she's been right all along! However by next week they'll have gone back to dismissing her theories and going after the obviously too obvious suspect.
As far as this formula goes, this show does it well.