This show is awful, which pains me to say since she was one of my favorite characters on The Good Wife. What made her so good was that we got just enough of her to want more, and until later seasons, we knew little about her personal life.
The formula of this show dooms every single episode within 5 minutes. The show opens with a crime, we see who commits it so there's no mystery. Then, Elsbeth arrives on the scene. Within 3 minutes of arriving she zeros in on who did it, the rest of the show is her filling in the pieces, which would be interesting if we weren't already sure that she's right. The enjoyment of a crime show is that we get to try to solve the crime along with the detectives.
She's not even a detective, she's a consultant, and much like the show The Mentalist the score of solved cases is Elsbet all of them, seasoned detectives who've been doing this for years, nada. They might as well fire them all.
I watched the whole first season, trying to give it a chance. I suffered through 3 episodes this season, on the 4th episode I stopped at 10 minutes in, that will be the final 10 minutes that I will waste my time with this. I can't believe the makers of the show and the actors aren't aware of what a bomb this is. There are also no supporting actors that have a compelling appeal, or storyline.