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‘Legally Blonde’ Prequel 'Elle' Is a Winner That Proves Doubters Wrong: Review

If bubbly brainiac Elle Woods taught us anything in the 2001 megahit Legally Blonde, it’s that you can’t judge a book by its sparkly pink cover. Viewers should remember that when they tune in to Elle (premiering Wednesday, July 1), Prime Video’s candy-coated eight-episode spinoff about Woods (winning newcomer Lexi Minetree) as a high school student in 1995. In this reimagining of the Harvard heroine’s origin story, the central fish-out-of-water tension bubbles over when the Woods family relocates from sunny SoCal to grunge-obsessed Seattle. Ms. Woods, meet Nirvana. And rain. And a distinct lac...