Alec Bloom

Alec Bloom is a mayoral candidate in Season 3 of Elsbeth, and Elsbeth meets him the way she meets half of New York: through Dr. Yablonski, on whose courtly arm she encounters the candidate at a benefit. The two discover a shared love of New York, down to singing the opening lines of Rodgers and Hart's "Manhattan" together, and the romance that follows runs alongside his campaign, managed by Elsbeth's old friend Marissa Gold.

The relationship is public from early on: campaign manager Marissa Gold leaks the photos that lead the New York Post's View column to dub Elsbeth Alec's "mystery redhead," and later invites her to a press-free fundraiser for the city law library hosted by Winnie Crawford, widow of Judge Milton Crawford. The scrutiny takes its toll - Elsbeth goes blonde to hide out from snooping paparazzi while the relationship draws attention, before choosing her own visible identity over anonymity.

The season's quiet investigation of Alec is run not by the precinct but by Teddy. Digging into Alec's past for a feature, he reaches Pete Hannigan, the MTA driver in Alec's stump-speech story, and the man does not recognize him; unable to find the man called Subway Pete who supposedly fed Alec when he was homeless, Teddy enlists Captain Wagner's help. At a dinner with Teddy and Roy, Alec gushes about loving E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial as a kid - though he had previously claimed his family was too poor to own a VCR and he had never seen it. Elsbeth advises Teddy to trust his intuition, and once the evidence lands tells him, "I think he's a liar."

The confrontation she has with Alec himself is gentler than her verdict: he admits he was never really unhoused - he ran away from home for a while after a fight with his parents and embellished the story over the years. The confession reframes his earlier tall tales as edits of a real story - true core, improved details - which is precisely the pattern Elsbeth cannot stop measuring. Having come clean, he invites her to watch E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial with him and ends the film in tears, a bid to prove the E.T. love was real that leaves the audience holding both the tears and her unanswered question.

The finale pairs his professional triumph with personal loss: Alec wins the election and, as the victor, promotes Captain Tully to police commissioner - his judgment in power on display at the exact moment his honesty is judged at home, where Elsbeth ends their relationship over his lies.

Alec Bloom, played by Ivan Hernandez, is the mayoral candidate who becomes Elsbeth's Season 3 romance - and the season's most human study in embellished truth. Introduced at a benefit where he and Elsbeth discover a shared love of New York, he courts her through campaign events and fundraisers while her son's fact-checking and her own pattern-spotting close in on the gap between his biography and his life. He wins the election, promotes Captain Tully to police commissioner, and loses Elsbeth, who ends the relationship over his lies. He appears across Season 3, first appearing in "Poetic Justice" (S3E5).

recurring

Elsbeth Tascioni is his Season 3 romance: introduced through Dr. Yablonski at a benefit, bonded over a shared love of New York and a "Manhattan" duet, kept in the tabloids by Marissa Gold's leaked "mystery redhead" photos, and finally ended by Elsbeth over his lies in the Season 3 finale.

Teddy Tascioni is the future stepson whose journalistic digging - Pete Hannigan, Subway Pete, the E.T.-versus-VCR discrepancy - surfaces the embellishments in Alec's biography. Marissa Gold runs his campaign and manages its optics, including the leak. And Captain Tully is the man Alec rewards for his election victory by promoting him to police commissioner.

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• Role: recurring
• Shows: Elsbeth
• Seasons: 1
• Episodes: 9

• Poetic Justice — S3E5

  Meets Elsbeth at a benefit on Dr. Yablonski's arm, and the shared love of New York - down to a "Manhattan" duet - starts the season's romance.

• Deadutante — S3E14

  Admits he was never really unhoused, reframing his tall tales as edits of a real story - true core, improved details.

• Murder, He Wrote — S3E16

  Wins the election and promotes Captain Tully to commissioner, while Elsbeth ends the relationship over his lies.

Season 3

Source: Season 3 · S3E5 · S3E6 · S3E7 · S3E10 · S3E11 · S3E13 · S3E14 · S3E15 · S3E16

Who is Alec Bloom in Elsbeth?

Alec Bloom is the mayoral candidate played by Ivan Hernandez who becomes Elsbeth's Season 3 love interest, whose embellished biography her son Teddy investigates and whose election win ends with Elsbeth breaking up with him over his lies.

Source: Season 3 · S3E5 Unreviewed draft

Which seasons of Elsbeth does Alec Bloom appear in?

Alec Bloom appears in Season 3 of Elsbeth, first in "Poetic Justice."

Source: Season 3 Unreviewed draft

When does Alec Bloom first appear?

His first credited episode is Season 3's "Poetic Justice" (S3E5).

Source: S3E5 Unreviewed draft

Who plays Alec Bloom?

Ivan Hernandez plays Alec Bloom in Elsbeth.

Source: Season 1 cast Unreviewed draft

What is Alec Bloom's role in the story?

He is Elsbeth's Season 3 romance and the season's study in embellished truth: a candidate whose stump-speech story and E.T. memory do not survive her son's fact-checking, and whose lies cost him the relationship even as he wins the mayor's office.

Source: S3E14 · S3E16 Unreviewed draft