‘Elsbeth’ Is Ready to Play a ‘Ted Lasso’ Star’s Game in First Look at This Week’s New Episode

Image via CBS Published Nov 10, 2026, 4:01 PM EST Ryan O'Rourke is a Senior News Writer at Collider with a specific interest in all things adult animation, video game adaptations, and the work of Mike Flanagan. He is also an experienced baseball writer with over six years of articles between multiple outlets, most notably FanSided's CubbiesCrib. Whether it's taking in a baseball game, a new season of Futurama or Castlevania: Nocturne, or playing the latest From Software title, he is always finding ways to show his fandom. When it comes to gaming and anything that takes inspiration from it, he is deeply opinionated on what's going on. Outside of entertainment, he's a graduate of Eureka College with a Bachelor's in Communication where he honed his craft as a writer. Between The IV Leader at Illinois Valley Community College and The Pegasus at Eureka, he spent the majority of his college career publishing articles on everything from politics to campus happenings and, of course, entertainment for the student body. Those principles he learned covering the 2020 election, Palestine, and so much more are brought here to Collider, where he has gleefully written on everything from the SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes to Nathan Lane baby-birding sewer boys. Sign in to your Collider account After venturing into country club society and solving a murder on the green involving Nat Faxon, it's time for Elsbeth to head somewhere a little more fun. Season 4 has already been a busy one for the pink-clad sleuth, between not just solving murders but helping plan her son Teddy's (Ben Levi Ross) wedding. What better area in all of New York City, then, for a day of fun than the legendary amusement district that is Coney Island? Episode 5 of CBS' hit murder mystery procedural will take Carrie Preston to the park where business once again awaits her in the world of competitive eating with a Ted Lasso star. Titled "All About Eats," the episode unfolds in the aftermath of a deadly donut-eating competition after which a Coney Island champion dies under mysterious circumstances. Enter Elsbeth to follow the crumbs and find out who's responsible for the gastronomical crime. She soon finds a suspect in Cody Baxter, an up-and-coming eating star and superfan of the sport played by Tim Robinson's Detroiters partner, Sam Richardson. It appears he may have gotten a little too hungry for the crown and bit off a little more than he could chew to knock off his top opponent, but to expose him, Elsbeth will have to play at his game. Ahead of the premiere this Thursday, Collider can exclusively share a new sneak peek that sees Elsbeth running into Cody on the famed Coney Island boardwalk, where he works as an "independent contractor." He doesn't like being called a "carnie" because it gives the impression he's "weird," but he doesn't exactly do a great job of breaking the negative connotation in their awkward conversation. After they exchange pleasantries, his demeanor immediately changes when Elsbeth mentions visiting his grandmother for a "very informative" chat. She assures Mimi only told them the nicest things about how helpful he was, including purchasing donuts for her, a line that Cody immediately tries to get away from by activating the carnival booth they're at. Elsbeth is definitely down to show off her skills with a water gun, though when she mentions her accuracy, it comes off more as a challenge to Cody that she will outfox him and expose his crimes. Collider Exclusive · 8 Questions · 2 Minutes Which British Mystery Series Should You Live In? Midsomer · Broadchurch · Luther · Vera Answer eight quick questions and we will tell you which one you belong in. Four of the biggest British detective shows ever made, four completely different tones, and four very different ideas of what a detective is for. 🏡Midsomer(Midsomer Murders) 🌊Broadchurch(Broadchurch) 🌚Luther(Luther) 🧥Vera(Vera) FIND YOUR SERIES → 01 Where would you most want to live? Pick the one that sounds most like you. AA village with a very old pub. BA seaside town under a cliff. CA flat in east London. DSomewhere windy with a long view. NEXT QUESTION → 02 How do you feel about your neighbours? Be honest. AI know all of them and their business. BWe genuinely look out for each other. CI have never met a single one. DThey know to leave me to it. NEXT QUESTION → 03 How would your friends describe you? Pick the closest answer. ACheerful, and a little bit nosy. BKind, and you feel everything. CIntense. Occasionally alarming. DBlunt, and usually right. NEXT QUESTION → 04 How do you solve a problem at work? One answer only. AChat to everybody until it clicks. BPatiently, and it costs me something. CStraight through the middle of it. DAsk the question nobody else will. NEXT QUESTION → 05 Pick a coat. No wrong answers here. AA waxed jacket and wellies. BWhatever was nearest the door. CA long dark overcoat. DA battered hat and an old mac. NEXT QUESTION → 06 How do you take bad news? Pick the closest answer. AMake tea and sit down with it. BTake it personally, every time. CGo very quiet, then move fast. DGet straight on with the job. NEXT QUESTION → 07 What is your relationship with the rules? Think about work, not parking. ARules are what hold a place together. BI follow them and they still fail people. CRules are for people with more time. DI bend the ones that get in the way. NEXT QUESTION → 08 What matters most to you in a case? Last one. This is the one that decides it. AThat the village gets its peace back. BThat the family finally gets an answer. CThat whoever did it is stopped. DThat somebody finally listened. REVEAL MY SERIES → Previously, On ITV Your Series Is…Britain makes more detective television than any country has any business making, and somehow almost all of it is good. Here is the one you belong in, what it says about you, and the case for it being the best of the four. Midsomer MurdersYou want the tea, the gossip and the vicar behaving oddly. Midsomer is a county where the scenery is beautiful, the fete is on Saturday and the murder rate is roughly that of a small war, and absolutely nobody involved thinks this is strange. You are sociable, curious and the first to notice that somebody has changed their routine. It has been running since 1997 and sells to well over two hundred territories worldwide. John Nettles handed over to Neil Dudgeon in 2011 and the show did not miss a step. Your flaw is that the line between caring about people and enjoying the gossip is thinner than you admit. BroadchurchYou feel other people's grief as if it were handed to you personally. Broadchurch is less a whodunnit than a study of what a small town does to itself when it finds out that the answer was always going to be somebody everybody already knew. You are the one people tell the truth to, and you carry all of it afterwards. Olivia Colman won the BAFTA for Best Actress for the first series and David Tennant has never been better. Chris Chibnall wrote it before taking over Doctor Who, and took Jodie Whittaker with him. Your risk is absorbing so much of other people's pain that nobody notices yours. LutherYou go through things rather than around them. John Luther is the best detective in London and a liability to everybody who works with him, and the show is completely honest that those two facts are the same fact. You are the one people call when the normal approach has already failed. Idris Elba won a Golden Globe for it in 2012 and it made him a film star more or less overnight. Luther: The Fallen Sun arrived on Netflix in 2023 and took the character properly cinematic. Your weakness is that doing the right thing your way still leaves a mess for somebody else. VeraYou say the thing and you do not dress it up. Vera Stanhope turns up in a hat and a mac, is rude to almost everybody, and is the only person in the room prepared to ask the question that the family has been waiting years for somebody to ask. You have no patience for performance, and the people who like you really like you. Brenda Blethyn played her for fourteen series before stepping away, and ITV ended the show rather than recast. Ann Cleeves wrote the novels, and also wrote the books behind Shetland, which is the same trick in a colder place. Your flaw is that blunt and kind can be the same thing, but only if people already know you. ↻ RETAKE THE QUIZ 'Elsbeth' Season 4 Has Even More Star Power on the Way Season 4 of Elsbeth has been just as star-studded as ever, with Richardson adding to a lineup that has thus far included Nicole Scherzinger, Nicholas Braun, the aforementioned Faxon, and even an appearance from New York Knicks star OG Anunoby. However, while the series still has more guests from its first round to get through, even more big names have recently signed on to join Robert and Michelle King's procedural. The Big Bang Theory star Simon Helberg will be one of the new suspects, playing a Revolutionary War reenactor whose spot is threatened by an up-and-comer. He'll be followed by SNL alum Molly Shannon, who plays a rising star creator of a female superhero, and Manchester by the Sea star Lucas Hedges as the founder of a prediction market. With them helping to fill out the rest of the season, Elsbeth is showing no signs of slowing down as the fall season winds into winter. Elsbeth Season 4, Episode 5 premieres on CBS on November 12. Check out our exclusive sneak peek in the player above. Release Date February 29, 2024 Network CBS Directors Nancy Hower, Robert King, Lionel Coleman, Rob Hardy, Robin Givens, Ron Underwood, Rosemary Rodriguez, Aisha Tyler, Bille Woodruff, James Whitmore Jr., Joe Menendez, Kevin Rodney Sullivan, Lily Mariye, Nick Gomez, Peter Sollett, Sam Hoffman, Tyne Rafaeli, Darren Grant, Fong-Yee Yap, Mary Lou Belli Writers Jonathan Tolins, Erica Shelton Kodish, Bryan Goluboff, Sarah Beckett, Michelle King Creator(s) Michelle King, Robert King