Elle Review: Lexi Minetree’s Legally Blonde Prequel Series Has A Promising Start, Only To Follow Cliches Later!
Elle, a series from the world of Legally Blonde, starring Lexi Minetree is soon releasing on Prime Video. Read our review here.
2.5 / 5
A series based on Reese Witherspoon’s iconic character from Legally Blonde? A BIG Yes. For everyone desperately waiting to see the adventurous journey of young Elle Woods in Seattle, played by Lexi Minetree, the wait is almost over. Created by Laura Kittrell, the 8-episode series is soon releasing on Prime Video, and here’s a quick review if you are planning to watch the prequel series!
Plot
Okay, I won’t reveal the plot twists or give any spoilers, but in a brief, the story revolves around the young Elle Woods (Lexi Minetree) and her parents, played by June Diane Raphael and Tom Everett Scott. After a surgery mishap by Elle’s father, the family shifts from LA to Seattle. The young Elle Woods is all set to face new challenges in a new world opposite to hers. The series is set in the year 1995, and mostly revolves around the adventures, problems, and challenges at school, with friends and Elle living a life out of her comfort zone. The series shows the self-discovery journey of young Elle Woods that would turn her into an empowered and fun Legally Blonde.
All the episodes are approximately 45-60 minutes long.
What’s Good
The series starts on a very promising note. And the highlight is undoubtedly debutante Lexi Minetree’s performance as Elle Woods. The first two episodes take us back to the world of Elle, a world dominated by the colour Pink, her adorable pup Bruiser, and her fun relationship with parents Eva and Wyatt. For everyone who is a fan of Reese Witherspoon’s Legally Blonde, they will be happy to see a familiar world created in front of them. The story becomes interesting when Elle is challenged to build a new life in Seattle, where everything is black and where kids are in touch with the real issues of the world, unlike Elle, who is a Cosmo fashion girlie. But this friction easily draws you into the show.
The series has some heartwarming moments between Elle and her mother Eva, or a selfless relationship Elle builds with Liz’s mother Donna, and even her best friend’s complications with Madison.
Characters And Performance
I loved Eva, played by June Diane Raphael. Along with Elle, this character undergoes a journey, and it is an absolute delight watching the actor. She plays the elite woman trying to fit into the Seattle society with her LA ways with so much ease, and the actor creates some unintentionally funny moments that make you love her despite the flaws. During the show, Eva’s journey becomes more engaging, amusing and convincing. Tom Everett Scott as Elle’s father also delivers a heartwarming performance as the man being a strong supporter of the two flourishing women in his life.
Lexi Minetree plays Elle with so much love and honesty, and it transforms on the screen. The actor owns the fun and confident Elle Woods with grace!
Liz, played by Gabrielle Policano, also shows a lot of potential as a character, and her friendship arc with Elle is quite interesting, although it goes on to become a little confusing towards the end.
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What Doesn’t Work?
Elle, a prequel series to Legally Blonde, gradually transforms into a very generic teenage girl story, and that happens when the character of Elle starts becoming less convincing and more confused. A 16-year-old suddenly develops this urge to do everything right, makes life around her easy, and takes on some challenging tasks at school just to fit in and make herself likeable. The show starts ticking boxes of a cliché teenage drama, with a love triangle, an extremely serious issue simplified to suit the narrative, and some familiar conflicts, like going from foes to friends, and so on. These plots lose grip to give us a smart and sassy prequel to the iconic Legally Blonde film. After 2-3 episodes, the show’s pace also becomes slow, with hardly any engaging events unfolding, safe to say the narrative becomes convenient and predictable.
Elle’s character also starts to behave too maturely for her age, which starts to get annoying. Elle questions and doubts herself way too much to even make the mistakes or choices that the older version would opt for, a few years later.
There are not many characters in the show that leave a lasting impact or become a conversation starter while talking about the show.
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Lexi Minstree’s Elle series is scheduled to release on July 1 on Prime Video. It starts well, but ends up becoming a not-so-exciting watch!
First Published: June 30, 2026 6:08 PM
