S02.E13: Tearjerker

[chitowngirl]

While investigating the death of a wealthy real estate developer, Elsbeth is led to the last person to see him alive, a lifestyle consultant named Chloe who is usually found on the arms of residents of New York City's Billionaires' Row.
 

Airdate February 27, 2025 on CBS

[AnimeMania]

Victoria Clark as Deborah Jordan

Braeden De La Garza as Det. Rivers

Jordana Brewster as Chloe 

[ItCouldBeWorse]

Det. Rivers was cartoonishly over-the-top.  It was nice to see Elsbeth aassert herself multiple times with him, even before she invoked her actual reason for being at the police department. Jordana Brewster as Chloe was very good; although I figured out that she had administered the fatal dose at the victim's request, I though it was to spare him the embarrassment of the trial.

I thought it was a little strange that on Elizabeth's first visit to Chloe, she was allowed to overlap with her next client; you'd think she'd be more discreet, but maybe she knew the client wouldn't care.

So the wife got financial control, but the architect husband had hidden away enough money to buy a 10 million dollar Cezanne?

Kaya will need a new wardrobe once she becomes a detective.  I wonder if she'll go shopping with Elsbeth.

Edited Friday at 08:40 AM by ItCouldBeWorse

[EtheltoTillie]

The plot was confusing to me, but I enjoyed drifting along.  There is no such thing as having someone declared "medically incompetent" in New York.  They created their own shorthand for a couple of possible procedures that do exist.  This is annoying to me.

[kaygeeret]

The 'new' detective was cartoonish, and I don't mean in a good way.  I hope his time is done.

Spend a bit more time with the officer who is 'overseeing' them and appears to be on the spectrum.  He is interesting and has shown some interesting moments recently.

I do want to see Kaya in her new role, BUT I do not want her to go away to a new district

[PokerDot]

18 hours ago, ItCouldBeWorse said:

I wonder if she'll go shopping with Elsbeth.

Oh, I hope not.

2 hours ago, kaygeeret said:

The 'new' detective was cartoonish, and I don't mean in a good way.

I think Elsbeth is a bit cartoonish, too. 

[DearEvette]

This episode felt very odd to me.  It felt very ... I dunno... enthralled with the Chloe of it all.  She was just so very glamorous and chic and rich and every man wanted her.  Heck, Elsbeth was almost apologetic to her for having to arrest her because she cried before helping the guy kill himself and framing his wife.

Meanwhile, I thought the wife got a raw deal.  It isn't as if she were a trophy wife who married him for his money.  She said she was the one that put him through school.   It just felt weird that the writing seemed so sympathetic toward Chloe because she loved a selfish asshole.  But felt kinda judgemental and dismissive toward the wife because she was apparently trying to stop him from ruining them.

Just felt weird.

And then on top of that we had the most incompetent, buffoon character of a "detective."  Yeah, I get that he is a nepo baby, but even so he was just over the top  bad.

Yeah, this one was a dud  for me.

[Driad]

Did Elsbeth pay Chloe for her time?  Or did she not have to because they later arrested her?

[sempervivum]

The only thing I enjoyed was Chloe's elegant wardrobe- that brown velvet pantsuit...

[kaygeeret]

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This is in response to Pokerdot saying..."I think Elsbeth is a bit cartoonish too"

 

I agree Pokerdot, but I find her cartoonish stuff funny while I found the new detective to be an over the top stereotype.

 

Basically we are not far apart.

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[AD35]

Did anyone notice that as soon as it was mentioned that the building swayed that when the show's title came up there was a swaying building? A not-quite-so-subtle reference to what was just said.

[PokerDot]

I did, and wondered if it had always been that way.

On 3/1/2025 at 6:17 PM, kaygeeret said:

I agree Pokerdot, but I find her cartoonish stuff funny while I found the new detective to be an over the top stereotype.

Her schtick is more original; I know what you mean. 

[Check Sanity]

On 2/28/2025 at 11:58 PM, DearEvette said:

Meanwhile, I thought the wife got a raw deal.  It isn't as if she were a trophy wife who married him for his money.  She said she was the one that put him through school.   It just felt weird that the writing seemed so sympathetic toward Chloe because she loved a selfish asshole.  But felt kinda judgemental and dismissive toward the wife because she was apparently trying to stop him from ruining them.

I didn't feel like the show itself gave the wife a raw deal. Elsbeth and Kaya were both protective of her at the crime scene while Nepo Detective was being obnoxious. The Captain also sent in Elsbeth when he could, to replace Nepo Detective from further scaring and questioning her.

The show did spend more time with Chloe, but I think that was in part due to the uphill battle of getting the audience to look past the escort aspect of the character to actually sympathize, if not empathize with the Chloe as a human being. The show did a decent job of "showing, not telling" that Chloe was charismatic and enthralling enough to pull off everything described--including the fact that she deeply cared about the man she euthanized.

I quite enjoyed the Captain's reading of the poem, it even got me a bit teary.

Chloe's comment that in another life they might have been friends made me realize that it's been awhile since Elsbeth's befriended the killer--most have been annoyed and feigned politesse. Add that to the changes this season, like no women as the murder victims.

[ItCouldBeWorse]

Did anyone notice the blatant product placement for Izze when Elsbeth was interviewing the wife at the precinct?   Luckily, Elsbeth really wanted the mango flavor!

https://www.izze.com/

 

[laredhead]

12 hours ago, Check Sanity said:

I quite enjoyed the Captain's reading of the poem, it even got me a bit teary.

Wendell Pierce was on The Late Night Show (Colbert) last week, and recited some lines from Shakespeare.  He has a varied career history on stage and TV.

As for the building problems, I recently read an article about a chef who works in a building just like the one on Elsbeth, and it might have been the model for it.  The article stated that many nights there are just a few people (if any) in the building's exclusive resident only restaurant, and that a high percentage of owners were from foreign countries, and had never lived in the building.  I'm sure the views are spectacular, but I'm not sure I want to live that high off the ground.