Elsbeth Season 3 Episode 16 | The Misogynistic Mentor and the Tale of the Mayor’s Missing Truth
35 min•17 april 2026
It’s Season 3, Episode 16 of Elsbeth, titled "Murder, He Wrote," and the snark squad is breaking down an episode that feels like a love letter to classic mysteries—if that love letter were written by a narcissistic sociopath. We’re unpacking the chilling performance of guest star Griffin Dunne as Elliott Pope, a celebrated (and deeply misogynistic) novelist who thinks he can write the "perfect crime" into his own book and get away with it. While Elliott was busy hiding the details of a bookstore owner’s murder in his latest manuscript, Elsbeth Tascioni was busy organizing the most high-stakes book club in Manhattan history to take him down. We’re asking: is Elliott actually a literary genius, or is he just a man who licks his thumb to turn pages and leaves his DNA on the literal evidence?
We’re also dissecting the absolute emotional wreckage of the episode’s ending. While Elsbeth was closing the case on Elliott, she was also forced to close the door on her relationship with mayoral candidate Alec Bloom (Ivan Hernandez). It turns out her son Teddy was right all along—Alec’s "unhoused to hero" backstory was as fictional as one of Elliott Pope’s novels, and the heartbreak that followed Elsbeth’s realization was a total gut-punch. Between the tense wall-pinning confrontation with the killer and the fallout from the city’s new mayor election, the divide is clear: you’re either an unconventional attorney who sees through everyone’s bullshit, or you’re like Alec, realizing that Elsbeth Tascioni’s "intuitive insight" is the one thing you can’t campaign against. We’re asking: is Alec Bloom the ultimate villain of the season for lying to Elsbeth, or is the real tragedy the fact that she’s back to being "happily single" just as the city gets a new leader?
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We’re also dissecting the absolute emotional wreckage of the episode’s ending. While Elsbeth was closing the case on Elliott, she was also forced to close the door on her relationship with mayoral candidate Alec Bloom (Ivan Hernandez). It turns out her son Teddy was right all along—Alec’s "unhoused to hero" backstory was as fictional as one of Elliott Pope’s novels, and the heartbreak that followed Elsbeth’s realization was a total gut-punch. Between the tense wall-pinning confrontation with the killer and the fallout from the city’s new mayor election, the divide is clear: you’re either an unconventional attorney who sees through everyone’s bullshit, or you’re like Alec, realizing that Elsbeth Tascioni’s "intuitive insight" is the one thing you can’t campaign against. We’re asking: is Alec Bloom the ultimate villain of the season for lying to Elsbeth, or is the real tragedy the fact that she’s back to being "happily single" just as the city gets a new leader?
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LISTEN & SUBSCRIBE: Catch every episode of The Snark Side Podcast on your favorite streaming platform:
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