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In an early episode of Elsbeth, Jane Krakowski enters a meeting by announcing that she’s “Joann Lennox from Joann Lennox Realty” while throwing her coat across the room, about to face off with a co-op board president played by Linda Lavin. This series of words might sound fairly innocuous, but if you’re familiar with the kind of television written by Robert and Michelle King, it may trigger the same sort of sleeper-agent response it did in me. The Kings — creators of The Good Wife, its spinoff The Good Fight, and Evil — specialize in breezy, high-quality, old-fashioned procedural television. They also specialize in great guest roles for stars of the stage, because their shows happen to film in New…
