Elle—the Legally Blonde prequel we’ve long been awaiting, which sees a high-school-aged Elle Woods relocating from Los Angeles to Seattle—is finally out on Prime Video, and though I’m of the opinion that we need fewer reboots and more original IP, I have to admit: this show kind of charmed me! That’s largely thanks to star Lexi Minetree’s ability to step into a role made famous by no less than Reese Witherspoon with aplomb.
Here, find (quite literally) every thought I had while watching the pilot episode of Elle on Prime Video.
- Oh, so we’re going full product placement, huh.
- Watch this show! Buy Nexxus hair products! Et cetera!
- I missed that loopy pink cursive font.
- Hello Sunshine is involved? Glad to know Witherspoon isn’t far from the scene of the crime.
- Hey, it’s 1995! I was two years old!
- Okay, visually speaking, they did nail it with the young-Elle casting.
- And the voice works, too.
- Are those the original parents from the original Legally Blonde?
- Wait, no, the mom is June Diane Raphael.
- I always love and appreciate an Annie Lennox needle drop.
- Wait, are these divas only in high school?
- “Hot Josh” is giving bottle of Costco-brand vanilla extract to me, but the heart wants what it wants, I suppose.
- Oh shit, this Cali girl is moving to Seattle?
- I smell a prequel premise!
- Damn, I want some Ferrero Rocher.
- OMG, Bruiser origin story!
- Was “adopt, don’t shop” really in the mid-’90s lexicon?
- I miss my dog 🙁
- Granted, he’s just at his dad’s house two miles away and I’m going to pick him up in an hour, but I still miss him.
- Oh, a Garbage needle drop now?!? Yes, prequel!
- Need Elle to enter the 10 Things I Hate About You cinematic universe and become besties with Bianca Stratford ASAP.
- Aw, look at Bruiser’s little pink feathered outfit!
- Is that Prada?
- Elle, let go and let yourself love skater boys.
- Sure, they’ll break your heart, but they’ll burn you some killer mix CDs first.
- Wow, everyone at this Seattle high school is mean as fuck.
- I suppose it is the era of grunge and depression.
- And right on cue, we have a Kurt Cobain reference!
- Zine reference! Everyone drink!
- Ooh, boy intrigue!
- British boy intrigue, no less!
- And he has a social conscience!
- So Paul Rudd-in-Clueless-coded.
- The popular girls like Bikini Kill?!? Can I go to this school?
- Much like Elle, I’m appalled at this LA slander.
- Best city in the world, baby! Go Dodgers!
- Sorry, but I don’t believe any high school was ever this counterculture, even in 1990s Seattle.
- Obsessed with June Diane Raphael’s embellished formal shorts.
- I would be so good at giving Elle Woods a 1995-era-Seattle-riot grrrl makeover.
- As Courtey Love once sang: “I went to school in Olympia / and everyone’s the same.”
- Remember “running out of minutes”?
- God, technology really did used to suck.
- I mean, I can’t say I love our new era of constant digital surveillance, but at least phones work.
- Feeling very Elle as I ask…who’s Ken Griffey Jr.?
- Oh no, Elle got that nice lady fired?
- Sorry, I was making a smoothie during that scene, but…yeah, there was a nice lady, and now she’s been fired.
- RADIOHEAD NEEDLE DROP?
- Okay, yeah, I’m going to watch Episode 2.
#Thoughts #Episode #Elle
