By Hope Sloop Published July 8, 2026, 8:00 a.m. ET When I first received access to episodes of Elle, Prime Video’s pink-splosion of a Legally Blonde prequel series, I made a promise to myself that I would give it a fair shot. I had seen the teasers and photos of Lexi Minetree — the Hollywood newcomer tasked with playing Elle Woods 24 years after the role made Reese Witherspoon a household name — and thought that it genuinely looked fun, if not slightly confusing. The show follows Minetree’s pampered character having to uproot her life in Bel Air and move to Seattle after a mishap involving one of her father’s (Tom Everett Scott) plastic surgery clients. In the Pacific Northwest, Elle struggles to find her scene as grunge and counterculture movements take hold of the mid-90s, much to the di