Elsbeth Season 2 has a great guest star for its premiere in Nathan Lane . The Tony winner takes his devotion to the theater to campy heights when Carrie Preston's Elsbeth Tascioni suspects him of robbing people out of bad theater etiquette. His character is teased in the trailer below, which also reveals Vanessa Williams, Pamela Adlon, Rob Riggle and Brittany O'Grady as additional guest stars for the season overall. Nanny alum Daniel Davis also guest stars in the premiere gallery below, and Aisha Tyler directs one episode this season.
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The official CBS premiere description sheds more light on Lane's guest appearance. The episode description, titled "Subscription to Murder," reads: "When a womanizing CFO is found stabbed to death after a night at the opera, Elsbeth suspects that an obsessed opera lover (Nathan Lane) was driven to murder by a ringing cell phone. Meanwhile, Elsbeth, Capt. Wagner and Kaya must adjust to changes in the precinct as the fallout from Noonan's [Fredric Lehne] misconduct continues to reverberate."
Watch the full trailer for Elsbeth season 2 below.
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